SOVIET RAIL SUPPLY SHIPMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007100230003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 24, 2008
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 23, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION,
COUNTRY.
East Germany
Soviet Rail Supply Shipments
EVALUATION OBTAINED
DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAINED
REFERENCES
PAGES 4 ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
REMARKS
CB - converted boxcar
B - boxcar
F - flatcar
T - tank oar
OB - oversized boxcar
SSy - heavy-duty flatcar
PREPARED 23 my 1955
The following rail supply shipments were observed between 19 April and
13 May 1955:
Date in
Number of
April
C
ars Load
From
21
19
10 new corridor
Halle
Brest Lito
vsk 1
train coaches
22
32 T.
probably empt
y
Grosskorbetha
Frankfurt/
Oder 2
10 B
undetermined
18 T
fuel
Brest Litovsk
Leipzig 3
23
25 F
new trucks
Frankfurt/Oder
Magdeburg
4
18 T
fuel
3
18 T
fuel
Erfurt 3
6 ?
machine part
s
Magdeburg
Brest Lito
vsk
24
18 T
fuel
Frankfurt/Oder
Jueterbog
3
27
46 B
uranium ore
Aue
Brest Lito
vsk 5
28
50 F
new trucks
Frankfurt/Odor
Magdeburg
4
29
16 T
fuel
Frankfurt/Oder
toward Fal
ksnberg 3
40 F
new trucks
Cottbus 4
14 F
machine part
s
Brest Lito
vsk
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April
29 46 B uranium ore Zwickau
30 10 new long
distance coaches
4 7 wheel sets
1
12 F machine parts Dessau
t rmined
AO BF undo
10 maoine parts Leipzig
14 T fuel Guben
10 new corridor -
train coaches
6 F wheel sets
2 25 F new trucks Zwickau
3 15 F machine parts Dessau
4 32 T fuel Guben
5 12 F machine parts Magdeburg
28 T fuel Guben
8 3 F 6 prime movers Leipzig
3 F machine parts
4 T undetermined
10 50 F
12 12 F
46 B
48 T
13 11 F
14 F
new trucks
machine. parts
uranium ore
probably empty
machine parts
2. Shipments) between 9 and 13 May included:
Date in
May Shipment
9 22 F with
Wei t in
tons From
Brest Litovsk
1
Brest Litovsk
of
Grossenhain 3
Brest Litovsk 6
Magdeburg 3
Brest Litovsk
Dresden 3
Brest Litovsk
Frankfurt/Oder Magdeburg 4
Leipzig treat Litovsk
Zwickau
Ruhland
Magdeburg
Erfurt
Brest Litovsk 5
5
Frankfurt/Oder 2
Brest Litovsk
To
1,200 Frankfurt/Oder Forst Zinna
military goods
exceeding the
scheduled load
1 CB9 20 B 600 Eberswalde Rothenburg/Saale
14 crash cars
4 B with - Frankfurt/Oder Boehien
military goods
exceeding the
scheduled load
10 1 CB, 25 B 800 Wulkow Torgau
14 crash cars
11 22 F with - via Frankfurt/ Forst Zinna
military goods Oder
exceeding the
scheduled load
13 12 F
400 Halle
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3. The following shipments passed through the Muellrose railroad station
between 9 and 14 May:
Date in
may Shipment
9 20 OB9 15 crash cars direction of
Frankfurt/Oder
20 OB, 12 crash cars
11 9 SSy with canvas-covered Brest Litovsk
crate& vehicles:
15 SSy with canvas-covered
crated vehicles;
toward Cottbus 12
Wittenberg
11
Forst Zinna
11
toward Cottbus 11
13 22 OB, 14 crash cars " Altengrabow 12
14 20 OB, 14 crash cars toward Cottbus 12
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20 SSy with canvas-covered direction of
tanks Frankfurt/Oder
Comment. The corridor train coaches were manufactured by waggon factori25X1
in GDR and exported to the USSR. The sets of broad-gauge wheels will be
used with the Soviet rail system. The long-distance coaches are a new type
of s-coach with sleeping facilities to be used in long-distance trains in
the USSR.
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movement to hydrogenation plants in the GDR and return empty to the USSR.
Comment. The shipments probably contained jet aircraft fuel for the 25X1
Twenty-F~ ourth Air Army. This assumption is believed to be correct with
the shipments to Erfurt, Jueterbog and Grossenhain.
Comment. The shipments indicate the beginning of a new motor vehicle
9?
Comment. The shipments of uranium belong to the monthly 10,000 tons 25X1
quota which is to be delivered by the Uranium Mining District in Saxony to
the USSR.
Comment. The shi ent which con he new T-54 type was
previously observed.
Comment. The shipments contained export goods for the USSR or
Re ina. The trucks were produced by motor vehicle plants in the GDR.
Comment)
the cars belonged to an intrazonal ammunition shipment. It is noticeable
that Rothenburg/Sable is not known as a post or depot.
Comment. The shipment has not been determined. Since standard-type
boxcars cannot be used for transportation of goods exceeding the scheduled
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with over-size fuel containers for the Boehien hydrogenation plant.
Comment. The cars belonged to an intrazonal ammunition shipment
between the GSFG ammunition depots at Wulkow and Torgau.
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11. Comment. The shipments probably contained T-54 tanks which arrived
he he USSR. The shipments to Forst Zinn mentioned in ar a hs 2 and
are probably identical.
12. Comment. The composition indicates that the shipment contained
ammunition. Altengrabow is known as a Soviet ammunition depot. It is
noticeable that the shipments included over-size boxcars, a type which has
four axles and a loading capacity exceeding 30 tons. Since the stock of such
cars is only small, they were probably not used for standard-type ammunition
but for transportation of ammunition of an especially large caliber (bombs or
rockets ?).
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