SHORTAGE OF GASOLINE AND OIL SUPPLIES IN LAND MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002200220001-6
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 1998
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Stocks of ~soline and diesel 031 held in Land Y ~aaklenbwcg~-orpol~errs ~
1 Qctobes~ 19118 were:
Gasoline 1,30?,000 ~1cg. (octane fib aTSd 57)
Diesel oil _ 7,000,000 k~;,
Thin co~nparee r~ith 2,700,000 ~ of ge.soline and 5,200,000 kg of oil held c~
1 Apri]. 19t,B. Th3.s reduction of gssolin4 stocks -held t~v the Land is
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?: 3ourae bel3svas that stocks of ftzal ar? decraaeing bacau
growing autsidc~ demands for the gasoline produced in th? Soviet Zone. (#roeter
quantities- are Yio~ being take~a fro? tho Zono, oatensibl~r ea roparatioas to
Poland, but it is ra3delq believed that these supplioe are r~eY^e3,y being stared
bar the Soviets in cistern. F.~cope. }
2A Stocks of bot~i actor and ?~achine oil are extrems~lSr low, Thos the film respon-
sible for the sale of b ..percent of the tote]. stock of oil. head in Land
t:eckleaburg~-Vorponaaexn had on ~. oatober 19bB tt total of c~1y 75 toss o f oi3.
~8E},000 liters), sapplied bg the Trieb and Sahaieratoff ver~9.ebs~;esellec~ft,
mbli. St ~s expoctad that the ?~ tons ~rould be oxhaustecl l~r rho first tree
creeks of October.
3. TTxv situation with roux-d to the suppltg a~' oiI far In'brioatioa purposes has
been aggxri~Tated bg the poor " ~ditiori of pxaaticall~ all intaraal ~bustioa
e,~iries is the Land. Theso engines ha4E3 never bee~i propor],y raaiat?cinad,
bocausc material arui Labor is not available for such purpoaeaj thus the engines
use far aaore oil than would narmelly be the case. 031 rasa ueual3y supplied
froaa Ear~tern ~'01~3 the ,~erunapth supply of 20 8ept~ber 191,,$, for example,
cans reputed to bo fr~n Auzminia although the Qermens theaselvea believed
25X1 X6 it to bs of Austrian, origin, Cam7o t~ 9n exception to the geaaral
rule that ail is received frog a ra E~iropa recontlq occurred cah?n a Dutch
ship bro~ht 300,000 liters oir transi'orn~r ail foam ~Q Retherlands to Rostock
oa 9 October 191.8. This deal. bee ~~~~-'4~ bey a,~;,~;.~erl ~ the ~C can as
exahc~nge basis, acid 3t was oxpected that a fl~r~tbor shipa~eaat cf 500,000 1ltertr
Utr~uld arrive in the Haar ffutiu~e.) FrQ8 a sanpiies of lubricants arrive at
. irregular intervals and in such srmLt quantities that t'~ey am of little help4
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