NORTHERN SHIPYARD, GDANSK (DANZIG)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A062500110001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 18, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 4, 1962
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. At the entrance to the Northern Shipyard, Gdansk (Danzig) there is a
barrier guarded by two men in black police uniforms and armed with
carbines.
2. Double propeller cargo ships for the USSR are being built in this
shipyard.
in the warehouse. These containers were about 50 cm high and 30 cm in
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Streets, there is a warehouse where all cargo imported from abroad is
stored. The building, approximately 120 x 25 x 5 meters, is not guarded.
Large piles of cylinder-shaped containers, about 500 in all, were observed
Ship propellers were also stored in this warehouse.
probably mean that no more 0 visitors will be permitted to enter
the yard.)
additional ships for the Soviet Navy are to be built there. (This will
the Northern Shipyard is to be made more secure in 1963 because
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5. Delivery of fishing factory ships at Gdansk was as follows:
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are still to be built for the Soviet Union
and will incorporate alterations in the construction of the aft part of the
vessels fn-ot further clarified, .
are for Poland; one of this series of
ships built for Polish use, is scheduled to
make its trial run in March 19 2, after a delay of about
a year. The vessel is for Dalmor, Gdynia.
It is felt that the planning for the delivery of fishing factory ships for 1961
was successful.
6. A copy of a sketch of the Northern Shipyard, and a photocopy of a commercial
city map of Gdansk ("Touring Plans", published by the Polish Bureau of Tourism)
showing the location of the warehouse mentioned in paragraph 3 above,
Comment. A Polish newspaper, Dziennik Baltycki, reported in
its 19 September 1961 issue that Professor Doctor Kazimierz Kopecki, of
the Gdansk Polytechnic School, had announced that shi s powered by nuclear
propiiIsion would be built at the Gdansk Shipyard.
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1 - Transverse Slip, with unknown ship under construction
2 - Yard work hall
3 - Crane: two thick booms with great hoisting capacity
4 - Area where sections are built; there were 10 - 20 ship sections under
construction at time of visit
5 - Road
6 - Entrance to Northern Shipyard, with barrier
7 & 8 - Dwellings outside shipyard grounds
9 - Double track railroad spur to North Shipyard
10 - Yard work hall
11 - Office building
12 - "Prespeski's" office
13 - Yard work hall
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