ILLEGAL EAST-WEST TRADE VIA BERLIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008100850001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 1, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 24, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
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COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zoneiestern Zdies)
SUBJECT Illegal East-West Trade Via Berlin
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1. The railroad stations of Wollank trasse in the French Sector of Berlin and
Pemkow Schoenbausen in the Soviet Sector of Berlin are considered the most
important transloading stations in Berlin for illegal East-West trade. It
is said that these stations handle the greatest number of illegal deliveries
to the Soviet Zone of Germany.
2. The railroad shipping documents for deliveries destined for the Soviet Zone
are made out to firms in West-Berlin. However,, when they arrive at the
Wollank railroad station,, they are loaded on cars which~at convenient mcments.~
are attached to trains destined for the Soviet Zone of Germany.
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MIEW Convent. The two stations mentioned are located in the northern tart
of Berlin. The railroad station of Wolla.nk-Strasso is on the line Berlin-
Oranienburg while the Parkow.-Schoenhausen railroad station is on the line to
Bernau. The alleged role of these two stations in illegal East-West trading
activities has not been confirmed by other sources.
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