SHIPMENT OF WAR MATERIAL TO ALBANIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005600340003-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2001
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: August 24, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SECT/I30IdXROL - U.S. OFFICIALS OILY
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO. ^
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY
SUBJECT
PLACE
ACQUIRED
Poland/Albania
Shipment of War Material
to Albania
RETURN TO CIA
LIBRARY
DATE DISTR.
NO. OF PAGES
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
24. August 195
1
25X1A
DATE OF
SUPPLEMENT TO 25X1 A
INFO.
REPORT NO.
X1 X
1. Conversations of an officer and crew members of the
eahistan indicated that the cargo of the ships which had
been declared as iron, screw bolts and earthenware, ^eto.ally
consisted of war materiel for Albania.
2.,
25X1A
Sailors said that a box had slipped from a crane and broken
?.urin; the loading oiler t ions in Gdynia m The ship's crew then
discovered that the box contained raac`,ine-guts barrel.., Con-
tents of the box had been declared as earthenware for Albania.
from where she was to proceed to Odessa xithout carCoa This
steamer trades regularly on the Danzig/Gdynia - Nledlterr?an..ean
route
Comm. The S n S m Lechistan vent through the Kiel Canal
on 3 Uay 1950, an rjute to ?.lexandriag Palestine and Albania,,
STATE
ARMY
This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
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