EASTBOUND RAIL FREIGHT TRAFFIC VIA GUBEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R010100060003-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 11, 2002
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 26, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

FORM NC.
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CLASSIFICATIONi , SWURITY INFQRMATIOMI
CENTRAL; INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zone) C 47 DATE DISTR.
SUBJECT Eastbound sail Freight E I,ZZpt~'tt NO. OF PAGES
Traffic via Guben 25X1 A C1.0s~P,
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26 December 195].
NO. OF ENCLS. 2 (S Pages)
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
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The attached reports concerning eastbound rail freight traffic via
the Guben crossing point are sent to you on loan. Kindly return.
them at your convenience.
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Date 1951 Number of Railroad Cars Load
22 Jujy 58 boxcars
24 July 25 boxcars
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nitrogen frog: Piesteritz
gasoline and machine parts
(1)
13 gondola cars
15 tank cars
60 boxcars
undetermined
58 flatcars with . side racks and machine parts
gondola cars
32 flatcars and gondola cars wheel sets (2)
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28 July 12 refrigerator cars
4 flatcars with side racks
10 gondola cars
29 July 6 boxcar's
2 gondola cars
16 tank cars
54,flatcars and gondola cars
30 July flatcars with Bide racks
and gondola cars
12 refrigerator cars
4 flatcars
31 July 24 refrigerator cars
8 flatcars with side racks
3)4 tank cars
8 boxcars
2 flatcars with side racks
8 boxcars
3 tank cars
9 boxcars
40 gondola cars
1 August 18 boxcars
28 gondola cars
2 August 24 refrigerator cars
8 flatcars with side racks
3 August 20 boxcars
4 flatcars with side racks
30 flatcars and gondola cars
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new refrigerator cars,
Soviet-gauge axles and
machine parts (3)
machine parts and electric
cars
gasoline (1)
machine parts including
lathes for China
wheel sets (2)
new refrigerator cars
and Soviet-gauge axles
new refrigerator cars
and Soviet-gauge wheel
sets (3)
gasoline (1)
(3)
new special freight cars
and wheel sets. (3)
undetermined
boxes guarded by VP
machine parts
new refrigerator cars and
Soviet-gauge axles from
Leipzig (3)
new special freight cars
and Soviet-gauge wheel
sets (3)
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4 August 26 boxcaru
18 tank cars
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gasoline, guarded (1)
43 gondola cars
12 boxcars
3 heavy-type flatcars
gravel and coal
cement pipes and factory
equipment for Poland,.
guarded by VP
5 August 30 tank cars- gasoline (1)
25 boxcars and gondola cars load undetermined, guarded
six-axle railroad crane (3)
with accessory and wheel
sets loaded on a heavy-
type flatcars
6 boxcars new special freight cars
1 flatcar with side racks and wheel sets (3)
6 tank cars
export goods
26 gondola cars, briquettes
52 flatcars with side racks and wheel sets (2)
gondola cars
6 August 60 boxcars and gondola cars reparations deliveries
40 gondola cars, flatcars with 12 mine cars, 1 grab
side racks and heavy-type crane, reparations
flatcars deliveries and boxes
7 August 40 gondola cars and flatcars *eel sets (2)
with side racks
8 August 3 converted boxcars
46 boxcars and gondola cars
military goods,, guarded.
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25X1X ccording to which a total of 90
refrigerator ears were accepted by the Soviets during the period from 1
January to 15 May 1951. Beside these cars which were delivered on reparations
account, 398 four-axle all-metal refrigerator cars with a gauge of 1,524 mm
were ordered in the Soviet Zone of Germany on 15 May 1951 by the Soviet
Machine Import Company at 21 ul.Kuibyshven in Moscow at a price of 40,000
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rutt]s per car. Of this total, 298 refrigerator cars will be delivered
by the railroad car factory in Dessau and 100 by the, railroad car factory
in Weimar. Dates of delivery have been fixed as follows:
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160 cars in October 1951
160 cars in November 1951
78 cars by 15 December 1951. (4)
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Comments.
(1) De iveri a Soviet e drogenation plants to the U.S.S.R. and
Poland. *Which of these shipments went to
the U.S. 3.H. an which to o an could not be determined.
(2) Standard-gauge wheel sets sent to Soviet border crossing points for use
by the 20,000 German freight cars returned from the U.S.S.R.
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(3) Reparations deliveries by Soviet Zone railroad car factories to the
U.S.S.R.
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Directorate General, Railroads1in Berlin indicates that source of the present
report observed on a fraction of the eastbound traffic passing through
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Accords gh
Poland, which came into effect on 20 May 19 1 u_ to 9 Soviet trains in
each direction may pass through Guben daily. [~ I 25X1A
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Type of Cars
Number and
9 August 21
tank cars gasoline
12 Soviet express
train coaches
5 four-axle
tipping cars
6 flatcar with
s d ac-s
26 tank cars
10 August 57 boxcars
11 August 58 boxcars
50 boxcars
10 boxcars
48 :cars
32 flatcars
12 special freight
cars
2 flatcars with
s1deacks
(2)
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Soviet-gauge wheel seta (3)
gasoline, guarded (2)
loaded, guarded
reparations goods
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export goods for i'oland
prefabricated houses
machine parts, reparations
goods
Soviet-gauge wheel sets
12 August 5 four-axle self-
tipping cars
2 flatcars with
sideeacks
18 boxcars
13 August 42 flatcars
14 August
Soviet-gauge wheel sets
(3)
(3)
export goods
wheel sets (4)
32 flatcars with machine parts, guarded by
sid asks and Volkspolizei
SS-ttTpe flatcars
20 flatcars
machine parts for Brest "itovsk
15 August 20 boxcars loaded, guarded
20 tank cars gasoline, guarded (2),
17 August 12 special freight new
cars
2 flatcars with soviet-gauge wheel sets
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1 six-axle railroad
5 automatic tipp-
ing cars
2 flatcars with
sid acks
1 SS-t e flatcar
21 August
1 six-axle railroad
slewing crane Am
1 SS-t}rpe flatcar
12 boxcars
33 gondola cars
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new
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Soviet-gauge wheel sets and
accessories (3)
loaded, guarded
Brest Litovsk
Soviet- &uge wheel sets
with accessories
machine,.-parts and other
reparations goods
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(1 report continues previous information. See- ?c
(2) Fuel. deliveries Soviet Zone hydrogenation plants to the U.S.S.R.
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(3) Probab y reparations deliveries by Soviet Zone car factories to the
U.S.S.R. The Soviet-gauge wheel sets will be used in the U.S.S.R. and
the standard-gauge wheel sets will be returned to the Soviet Zone of
Germany,
(14) Standard-gauge wheel sets en route to the Soviet Zone of Germany
where they will be mounted on 20,000 former German freight cars returned
from the U.S.S.R.
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Appr ve or a ease - - AffigutHA- rder
near Guben during the period from 9 to 21 August 1951 included: (1)
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