EXPORTATION OF PRIVATELY-OWNED FUEL TANKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007800410009-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 7, 2013
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: June 1, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION47400012/COUTROL 1J,, OFFICIA LS MTN
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORWIATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Gerraam (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT Expropriation of Privately-owned
Fuel Tanks
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ACQUIRED
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In January 19512, privately-owned fuel tank installatiops in Aken/Elbe
OK 52/D 96)e Cottbus (N 52/A 57)e and Brandenburg (N 53/Z 23) were
expropriated. Fuel from Soviet Zone plants is stored in these tanks
and then shipped to Leningrad via Stettin (0 54A 55) and other Baltic
Sea ports, *
Comment. It is believed that the fuel tank installations were requisitioned
y or. er 3r7fHe Soviets. However, it is believed that these installations will
remain under the administration of the Deutsch-liussische Naphtageselischaft 50X1-HUM
(German Soviet Naphta Corporation) (DerunapW or of the Deutsche Xraftstoff-
und aneraloel-Zentrale (German Fuels and Cils Central) (DMZ). The
Aken fuel dump has a stora7e capacity of aoproximately 7,000 cubic meters. 50X1-HUM
? The existence of fuel dumps in
Cottbus and 3randenburg was learned from a circular of Derunapht dated 28
February 1951 in which the dumps in Cottbus and Brandenburg were designated
as P 501 and P 513. It is not clear why the fuel produced in Soviet Zone
hydrogenation plants is no lon,er shipped from these plants directly to
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