SOVIET RAIL SUPPLY SHIPMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007900340010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 6, 2008
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: August 12, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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c OOVNTRY
CLA IFIGATIC3M
East Germany
16 trucks (tank trucks
and repair shop trucks)
iron sections Frankfurt/Oder
undetermined border
ore Brest-Litovsk
TOPIC Soviet Rail Supply Shipments 25X1 25X1
EVALUATION
DATE OF CONTENT,
DATE OBTAI N ED _,..[
REFERENCES
PAGES,
REMARKS ~
12 August 1955
PLACE OBTAINED
ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)_,
25X1
25X1
25X1
The following shipments were observed passing through Frankfurt/Oder between
27 and 30 July 1955:
B-boxcar; G-gondola car; E-express train coach; F/S -flatcar
Date in
July
Number and Load
Type of Cars
27
10 new Pullman empty
cars, 25 G
Frankfurt/Oder
border
Brest-Litovsk
46 B
uranium ore
54 G
timber
Brest Litovsk
undetermined
2 E
air-force personnel
It
direction of
Cottbus
14 B
3 F/S
it
6 trucks (empty)
52 G
timber
undetermined
54 G
ore
Ziltendorf
20 G
ore
undetermined
35 B
undetermined
56 G
coke
Brest-Litovsk
undetermined
56 B,G
undetermined
Frankfurt/Oder
border
Brest Litovsk
54 G
ore
Brest--Litovsk
Z;iltendorf
2 E
air--force personnel
to I
it
direction, of
Cottbus
11 B
t
29
8 IRIS
52 F/S
55 B
56 G
2 E
11 B
13 F/S
56 B
air-force person el
n it a
SPORT NO.
26 trucks (tank trucks ^
and repair shop trucks)
undetermined Frankfurt/Oder
border
1
4
4
. Ziltendorf 4
direction of
Q,ottbus 3
25X1
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30 July
56 G
ore
Brest-Litovsk
"
53 F/S
iron
d
54 F/S
iron sections
er
Frankfurt/O
border
2 E
air-force personnel
Brest-Litovsk
16 B Cottbus
10 F/S 20 trucks (tank trucks
and repair shop trucks) 5 25X1
1 train 20 tanks covered with Brest-Litovsk direction of
tarpaulins Cottbus
Comment, Probably express train coaches delivered by GDR railroad
car factories to the USSR.
25X1
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Comment, Shipments to the USSR from the uranium-ore mining district in
000 tons.
000 to 11
10
t
i
,
s
s
9
Saxony. he monthly quota of uranium ore shipmen
6omment. Continued shipments of air force ground personnel to
Welzow and Gross-Doelln airfields,
The shipment observed on 30 Jul robabl identical with a shipment 25X1
consigned to Welzow tl registered
he other three shipments were apparently reg 25X1
for the first time when crossing the border. A total of 10 shipments have
been reported so far*
Ziltendorf 4
undetermined
Brest-Litovsk
direction of
ent. This tank (T-54) shipment is probably identical with a shipment
Comment Incoming shipments of raw materials for the Ei.senhuette nkombinat25X1
Ost (Iron Foundry East) (EKO) at Fkierstenberg/Oder. 25X1
In the early morning of 29 July, one shipment o2 air iorce
arrived at Gross-Doelln. This shipment was possibly identic
observed on 28 July.
destined to Forst Zinna which was observed
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