RAIL FREIGHT TRAFFIC THROUGH FRANKFURT/ODER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007900340012-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 6, 2008
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: August 12, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATIO ECRE
COUNTRY - East Germany REPOR
EVALUATION.
DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAINED
REFERENCES
PAGES 3 ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
REMARK
Rail Freight Traffic through Frankfurt/Oder
The following shipments were observed passing through Frankfurt/Oder
between 1 and 6 August 1955:
B- boxcar, F/S - flatcar wit} sideracks, G - gondola car, T - tank car.
Date in
August
ACE OBTAINED_~
Number and Type Load From
Of Cars
56 B undetermined Frankfurt/Oder
56 F/S iron constructions "
56 G ore
1 train 56 sedans
escorted by
airforce
personnel
-DATE PREPARED.
12 August 1955
[This is UNEVALUATED Information
56 G and F/S ore and timber
1 train 20 tanks, covered "
escorted by with tarpaulins
air-force personnel
empty
undetermined
56 G empty Frankfurt/Oder Brest-Litovsk
2 56 F/S ship sections
? cars 16 x122-mm SP guns
40 F/S crates
56 G coke
1 train 60 trucks
escorted by
airforce personnel
54 F'/S crates
35 T
40 T
Frankfurt/Oder
Brest-Litovsk
Frankfurt/Oder
Ziltendorf 1
Frankfurt/Oder 2 3
Ziltendorf 1
direction of
Oottbus 3 4
Frankfurt/Oder 2 3
Brest-Litovsk
undetermined 6
Brest-Litovsk
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48 B
1o /S
45 T
56 G
64 F/S, G
45 F/S, G
56 G
1 train 48 trucks, 3 2-axle " direction of 2 3
escorted by armored personnel E; Cottbus
air force personnel carriers
30 T
15 T
56 B
56 G, F/S
52 B
54 F/S, G
52 B
1 train
56 G
56 G
56 G
42 T
56 G
56 G
56 B
1 train
35 F/S
46 B
56 B, F/S
56 G
empty
undetermined
iron plates
undetermined
ore
crates
iron and ore
coke
undetermined
empty
undetermined
empty
undetermined
iron and ore
undetermined
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Frankfurt/Oder Brest-Litovsk 6
Brest-Litovsk Ziltendorf 1
Frankfurt/Oder Brest-Litovsk
Brest-Litovsk Ziltendorf
1
Frankfurt/Oder Brest-Litovsk
Brest-Litovsk undetermined
Brankfurt/Oder Brest-Litovsk
Brest-Litovsk undetermined
Ziltendorf 1
undetermined
h
direction of Cottbus 7
ore
empty
ore
undetermined
it Ziltendorf 1
Frankfurt/Oder Brest-Litovsk
Brest-Litovsk Ziltendorf 1
Frankfurt/Oder Brest-Litovsk 6
Brest-Litovsk Ziltendorf
undetermined Frankfurt/Oder Brost-Litovsk
15 tanks without Brest-Litovsk direction of 4
muzzle brakes, Cottbus
covered with tarpaulins
iron
uranium ore
crates
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Frankfurt/Oder Brest-Litovsk 8
Brest-Litovsk Ziltendorf 1
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ncominr shipments of raw m,_-terials from the USSR destined for Eisenhuetten-
kombinat Ost (Iron Foundry East) at Fuerstenberg/rider. 25X1
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Comment. Incoming shipments of motor vehicles within the framework of
current motor-vehicle exchange program. 25X1
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it is noteworthy that such air-force personnel were also
c. connection with army shipments, tanks, armored jersonnel carriers
that were definitely identified as army shipments. Therefore.,it is believed possible
that personnel for the Twenty-Fourth Air Army arriving from the USSR were
employe) us escorting personnel on shipments from the USSR. 25X1
Comment. Continued shipments of tanks (T-54s). The shipments observed on
1 August is probably ide
consigned to Forit Sinna
omment. This outgoing shipment of obsolete SP guns to t~:e USSR is 25X1
possibly identical with an outgoing shipment containing 16 JSU-152s dispatched
from Kirchmoeser on 29 July 1955 to Brest-Litovsk
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plants to the USSR and return 25X1
of' mpty tank cars.
Comment. This shipment is possibly identical with a shipment containing 25X1
Comment. Deliveries of GDR ,,yd.rogenation
17 a.ireraft which was previously reported
~omment. Shipments to the USSR from the uranium--are mining (listri_ct 25X1
in Saxony.
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