RELOADING STATION AT KOVEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008600460012-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 9, 2000
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: February 6, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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FORM NO. 51-IAA
FEB 1952
'IDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR (Volyn Oblast)
2. Over 200 warehouses were built in the transshipment station area. They are
built of wood and measure 30 x 80 x 7.8 in, The flooring is of crushed (tamped)
.brick chips. At the front of the buildings are large entrances at various intervals.
3. Nine open-storage platforms were also constructed, made of crushed brick,and
measuring 60 x 200 m each. There are six concrete fire reservoirs, 6 m across and
3 m deep.
SUBJECT Reloading Station at Kovel NO: OF PAGES
DATE OF 25X1X
INFO.
PLACE 25X1 C
ACQUIRED
1. Two rail lines, a standard gauge track and a broad gauge track, run from Lublin
25X1C or from Brest is not clear at this point) to Kovel (51-13N, 24-44E).
About 1.5 km south-southwest of the main Kovel Railroad station, a double line
branches off to the north for about 3 kn., where the transshipment station area
begins. The transshipment station covers an area of about`l.8 x 2.5 km. Two
double tracks run into the area.
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DATE DISTR. 6 February 1953
NO. OF ENCLS. 1
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
5. The power plant, about 2,500 m north of the station of Kovel, is 25 x 60 x 3m
and of stone construction. Three tin smokestacks rise from the roof. The
plant is approximately 100 m southeast of the transshipment station area.
6. The -transshipment station was pl4nned for reloading and storing of reparations
goods from Germany and particularly for the storing of machines and machine parts.
Direct reloading from standard to broad gauge took place continually but was
considered less important than the storing operations.
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Double ramps, 2,200 -? 2,300 meters long, are located on both sides of the double
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The Raa ehouses arm` In groups of four each -ith few e?ceptions, about
isix a frota tbo-rail line. -A iiooden-bridge leads-'to the entrance from the
rail lines which is at a level about 1.5 a higher than the entrance.
The direct connection of tt ? broau -gauge ^ like Ito the in railroad station
(and farther to -the Kiev -s etch) did riot exist - in March; 19470, although a
railroad emba nt -Tras ilreid he sed i p - there. The trains all had to
switch to the crest stretch (freight station).
L~tacbzent: Sketch of Reloading Stition at Kovel.
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1. Comment: The dimension given seems to refer to the double ramps
shown in he center part of Attachment, with no dimension given for the smaller
double ramps shown north. of the long ones,, on a parallel set of tracks.
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