GDYNIA - PORT CONDITIONS/AIDS TO NAVIGATION: LARGE LIGHTED BUOYS EQUIPPED WITH RADAR REFLECTORS.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500400175-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 175
• Publication Date: February 23, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Gdynia - Port Conditions/Aids to Navigation:
Large Lighted Buoys Equipped with Radar Reflectors.
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. ,Aids to Navigation. f--Jship called at Gdynia
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DATE D I STR. :~3 Feb 1954
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25X1 are rger and all are equipped with radar reflectors. 11 The buoys in Gdynia
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2 5X1 while bound for Gdynia and one day out,
one of the channel buoys was inoperative.
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2, Dock Facilities. great strides have been made toward
2 5X1 the establishment of good port facilities in Gdynia, especially considering
-their condition when the Germans quit the port in W II. In addition to the
25X1 storage shed, many of the piers carry three sets of railroad tracks, which
25X1 permits direct discharge from the vessel into rolling stock. Also, when
necessary to aid in discharging, cranes can use these tracks. The longshore-
2 5X1 men in Gdynia seemed very anxious to please the ship and frequently asked the
Chief Mate if everything was as he desired it to be.
3. Security. Security measures standard for the port were imposed on the ship.
On entering there was a three and one half hour search; and on departure:
there was a three-hour search. PTothing out of the ordinary ship-discharging
routine was permitted without "Ispeci.al request". Other activities, such as
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e were ertreraely high. , For
t of US:$250. A cert in
purchases ashore una ded,
}d be eliminated by
real sensitive ', to Poltah security have fences or Army rds,
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'Or DOWI.
e_cercisirk the crew by lowerlling the ship's boats For lifeboat drib., we
of the question.
Purchases Ashore. Prices onlanything bought ashor
e.cample, a pair of worsen' s shoes cost the equivale
amount of security risk was involved in rralzing any
but lower prices could be obtained and the risk co
dealing through the ship's chandler.
6. Port Defenses.
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