HARBOR OBSERVATIONS - GDYNIA POLAND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500210184-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 6, 2008
• Sequence Number: 184
• Publication Date: September 22, 1998
• Content Type: REPORT

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S_CURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY
SUBJECT
Harbor Observations - Gdynia, Poland
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The Office of Naval Intelligence furnished the following information to CIA
for IAC dissemination is accordance with paragraph 3 c of NSCID -0 7) per
DIO 5ND report - Ref: (a) NIRM #18, (b) H. 0. Chart #4928j
This report contains information regarding the
ties, merchant and naval vessels observed, and
port of Qdyn.A.
harbor facilities, repair facili-
various activities noted in the
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2. MERCHANT AND NAVAL SSIPS OBSERVED
the or an was lying alongside the English quay where she was being
scrapped (btay 1953)? A ferry eras noted running between Zoppot and Gdynia;
according to. report this ferry was to run only during the sucamer months and
passes thro' h prohibited area'outside the harbor. A radio controlled craft
or es boate had a small gun of large diameter (mortar type). None had
visible torpedoes.
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In vicinity of
Norwegian Quay:
About 50 fishing vessels were observed outside of harbor about 75'
in length.
3. HA880H INSTALLATIONS AND FACILITIES
Batory, Polish passenger -a -hip
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4. MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND ACTIVITY
there. Trucks were used to haul cargo from the dock. Two floating cranes,
one 75 ton, the abhor 40 ton, were observed unloading cargo (buses) from a
nearby ship. Dredging operations were noted in the vicinity of wrecks which
have been removed. Road from Gdynia to Gdansk was described as a dual high-
way, i.e., two auto roads separated by a strip of grass and by trolley tracks,
pier and wareuouse on French Quay were in good con-
dition but needed cleaning up. Two electric lO..ton cranes were located at
this Quay, one of which was inoperative. Dredging was noted near now pier:
construction (exact location unknown) in prohibited anchorage;
edge was of vacuum type.
French Quay has eight to ten cranes of three to five
tens capacity each. Polish Qua has about fifteen cranes.
All the quays are equipped with electric cranes.
(floating crane of about 75 tone capacity
the piers in general are in good condition but that
French more run down than the others and that it needs now pilings.
sheds on pier where mail was placed in transfer were of brick
construction in good condition.
only one plane a MIG yes over the ship. This MIG was landing to the North
of a.
Prewar corvette type escort vessels,
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armed .with bums, believed to
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at the hands of all the quays lookout posts had been
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nthe 5-ton cranes were used
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appearel to bi...practicing landi and take off. thereIwas only
one plane in'the air at a-time.ng panes, very fre
quently, apparently in groups of three or four, over the Ealt?c Sea.
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