RAILROAD TRAFFIC/RAILROAD COMMUNICATIONS IN RIGA/RAILROAD MAP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600040632-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2011
• Sequence Number: 632
• Publication Date: January 26, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

NO. OF ENCLS.
ILI5TEE' CELOW(
DATE
ACQUIRED
LAT6 (OF INFO.)
SOURCE
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
2
1. In 1944 all cars belonged to either P re c u star or Skirotava and it
was at these two stations that the cars were raised up and fitted with
the Soviet gauge axle )f 1524 mm or the "normal" gauge of 1435 =?
2. The train to eastern Latvia was called "Riga First" and all the cars on
this line went through talpaka post. The train to vestern Iatvia was
called "Riga Special" and always vent through Jelgava. Ma important
fact is not that large stations were located at these places but that
all railroad care were funneled through them.
3. The line on vhich there we. most traffic was probably between Rigs and
Komori where the sulfur springs are located. ? train left Riga every
10 minutes. The springs ware greatly valued by all the high Communist
officials who vent there as often as possible said stayed at lotel liner 1.
4. Your girls were required to handle the railroad telephone system in Riga.
Rich girl was assigned 100 awebsrs placed on a dial very such like the
telephone dial system in the IS. We could ocasamicate with any station
in Iatvia and, in emergencies, could also place calls on the public
telephone system in Rip.
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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDZrI &
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Latvia
SUBJECT
REPORT NO,
CD NO.
DATE'DISTR.U SA^I 95l~
Railroad Traffic/Railroad'Co?runications in Riga NO. OF PAGES
Railroad Map
PLACE
ACQUIRED
The >~ produced by the Office of Rail-
road iypograpby ana aqua i. , R+r ...:fable to the peblic sod could
cot be bought may place. Alt- hough sm is dated 1935 there had been
no chaps in the road in 1944 have been no changes
in the system since, with the on UK 46 rw& the Crain built
that ran from somewhere in the vicinity of /alias to the vicinity Of
LigcLis or labile.
6. Me red, blue and brown lines on the map repreNnt the
routes traveled by the Was officers o Dapartalsat?
'!Moir job was not only to locate articles left by passesprs on the train
but also to trace lost T&13=0114 OWN-
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