CZECHOSLOVAK ELBE-ODER NAVIGATION COMPANY (CSPLO)

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02028149
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
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• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: October 4, 2019
• Case Number: F-2018-01373
• Publication Date: November 10, 1952

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SECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia/West Germany/East Germany DATE DISTR. 10 November 1952
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Czechoslovak Elbe-Oder Navigation Company (CSPLO) NO. OF PAGES
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES. INITHIR THE MEANING OF TITLE 18. SECTIONS TEE
AND 7E4, OF THE E. S. CODE. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVEL^
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IS PROHIBITED BY LAW THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS F01100 IS PROHIBITED.
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Forty Czechoslovakian river boats othich could not as yet return to Czechoslovakia
because of the lo-IT water level of the %lbe have been sent from HamburE to harbors
In the Russian Zone. It is more economico- to pay the harbor fees and crew wages
in East German marks. In Hamburg the crew u'es amounted to 40 DM per man daily.
There are still lh Czechoslovak freirlaters an a tugboat, the PRAHA, at Hamburg.,
Sotelk(fnu) $ a former manual laborer has been .pnointed General Uanager of the
ne7 czecnoslovek FrUbe-Oder Navigation L'ompany (COL)). The :thief clerk, (Thu)
Chuml, of the Hamburg of 'ice of the old Ozenhoslovak Elbe Nav�gaL,ion Company was
recalled to Czechrtslovakia as of 1 July 1952 but as yet has postponed his return,
Chuni was formerly employed in the lumber industry and has no pa/ tinnier qualifica-
tions for his position in the navigation company. He was appointul to his present
post with the help of the former Czechoslovak General Uonsul in Hamburg, Ing. Josef
Fort, who is now in prison in Czechoslovakia,
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