TRANSPORTATION AND TRANSLOADING OF URANIUM ORE AT BREST-LITOVSK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600010153-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 23, 2004
• Sequence Number: 153
• Publication Date: February 8, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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SUBJECT Transportation and 'Pransloading of Uruniuui' Ure at N0. OF PAGF_S z
Brest-Litov slc
N0. OF ENCLS ~
ILISTED BELOW) ~)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT N0. .
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMA710N
Most oP this incoming freight consisted of war materiel., ropura ions ma~eria an
comet^rcial oargo freigata At?the same Limo rail transports arrived in Brost with
uranium erne Uranium m1313S :il'@ local?~l in Connur_y near the cities of Vismuth and
;';ue, and are wholly ~_tnder tine con.~_rol of the Soviet Uniono Trunsloading of the
uru:ti~un ore from European carriers to Soviet carriers occurs at the RP. station
?,uhovotz--I,tili'c:~ry (Mul'iovotz=Voonnih) and is done by military working bu'ttalions,
at a.ciied to -i;he Di recta rate of i;ia~ Part of the transload-
~ng nl' ?f.hn me is ncco:nolisii~?c1 u,,, '~,r,~t: ii]r ,,ep...u'u, ~~o ,,inl; ?ailali~n, iuc::.tcd
neatr P~4uhoveta-Nilitn.ry station, n~^ar tits iirest fori:iiicai:iuns. iuc iviuiiu'vcitZ^
hiilitarv Station is i.n i.tseli a RR sidir_g, in'tonded nrimariiy for conducting loading
operations
20 The uranium ore from Vismuth and Aue arrives in sealed, covered wagons under the
protection of military forr,os of the MGB. 29te uranium era transports aro under con-
stm t protL:c tir,n throughout ~bhe trip, from the nlaoo whore the wagons aro loaded
until they reach their dcstinationa The head of the security group is an oi'ficor,
also of the military forces of the MGB.
3o According to normal procedure, an authorized officrr of the MGB takes charge of Fhe
uranium transports i'rom th? momon't transloadi'.zg comntenres at Bres'to Isis duties con-
sist of accepting the transport, organi::ing the transloading, and doapatcl'>ing the
uranium to 'the USSR The transloadinp; and despatch is given the highest ;priority
and -the mairtenanco of records of the uranium transports is i.n the hands oP the ,dGB.
1o The uranium ore 1ool~s lilc~ dark-broom crushed store of various sizes and shapes and
s sent 'Lo the USSR in loose form and i.n packed containers. In 'the luoso form it
is literally poured into the vragons ancl, i.n the packed form, it is nr:.ckod ~n metal
containers vrith ap. roximately the follovring dimensions;
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