SOVIET SHIPPING IN THE BALTIC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008900080009-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: October 5, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION CD NO.
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COWWRY
USSR (Baltic area)
DATE DISTR.
5 Oct . 1951.
SUBJECT
Soviet Shipping in the Baltic
NO. OF PAGES
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Leningrad on 30 September 1951 only one
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merciant vessel in the port. It veal a Liberty-type shi with three or four
fishing trawlers loaded on the deck
. a naval vessel
at hronstadt which
was the Soviet battleship Q t abrsk
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On 19 September 1951 there were almost no
Soviet merchant vesse s in Baltic ports, none at all in Ventspils and Wismar.,
although in the latter t there were many vessels chartered to the USSR..
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there were
ew Soviet merchant vessels in Arkhangelsk
and kurmarisk during the summer of 1951.
3.
it is diffi
cult to obtain bottoms from Sovfrc;cht to move
cargo and that Sov.fracht is constantly attempting to charter foreign vessels.
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