TRANSPORTATION OF POISON GAS PROJECTILES TO BALTIC PORTS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001000840005-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 3, 2011
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: November 12, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT Transportation of Poison Gas Projectiles to
Baltic Ports
ORIGIN
DIST. November 1947
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1. -Towards the end of June 1947, several freight trains carrying poison gas
bombs weighing from 250 to 300 lbs. each were loaded in the Ergotan factory
at Stassf'urt and left for Stettin. The extent of these ehipnents can be
judged fraft the fact that one train consisted of forty-five cars hauling
1320 bombs.
2. During the period froraI-Tarch 1947 to 10 June 1947, German gas shells (105 and
150 mm) and gas-spray cylinders were shipped by rail from the Kapen A.G.
ammunition factory near Dessau to =aolgast, where they were unloaded. Each
train was loaded with a total weight of 1,200 tons, and was accompanied by
six German guards and one Russian. The round trip from Kapen to t Jolgast to
Kapen took ten days, including one day for unloading. The trains were some-
times held up for one day by trains from Leipzig with similar freight. About
four gains per week arrived at Wolgast harbor from the Kapen works. Their
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T?lolgast", under Regierungsdirektor Theiss.
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An area to the east of Bornholm was declared a prohibited area for shipping early
in August 1947, The reason given was that a large number of poison gas shells
.1-Sicants) have been dumned the 7and have contaminated the water.
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