EXPAND WISMAR REPAIR DOCKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600300431-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 431
• Publication Date: April 24, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTlONCIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY Soviet Zone Germany
SUBJECT Transportation - Water
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Berlin; Schwerin
DATE
PUBLISHED
THIS DOCOXINT CONTAINS IM/O--ATOM ATISCi1I1- TNT NATIONAL 0.1114111
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DATE OF
INFORMATION 1950
DATE DIST..Apr 1950
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
TO COST 65 MILLION DEUTSCHE MARKS -- Taegliche Rundschau, No 35, 10 Feb 50
The Wismar repair docks are being expanded into a large-scale shipyard, at a
cost of approximately 65 million Deutsche marks. An area of 294,000 square meters
has been made available for the project, which will include a 740-meter quay with
a channel alongside dredged to a depth of 7-meters to permit docking of large deep-
sea vessels. A 100 x 150-meter shipbuilding shop and 12 other large shops are under
construction.
SOVIET SHIP DOCKS AT WISMAR HARBOR -- Landes-Zeitung, No 36, 11 Feb 50
The 9,000-ton Soviet steamer Vostok, arriving from a Black Sea port, unloaded
500 tons of manganese ore and took on 3,000 tons of potash in Wismar.
The Vostok, which is 120 meters long and 17 meters wide, is the largest ves-
sel ever to dock in Wismar harbor.
CONFIDE T`AI
STATE
ARMY
NSRB
FBI
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