GDR'S FRIENDSHIP TRAIN ATTACKED BY POLISH PARTISANS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600400403-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 403
• Publication Date: July 19, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
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PUBLISHED Buenos Aires
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PUBLISHED 21 Feb 1951
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An eyewitness in the refugee transit camp at Uelzen-Bohldanma reports
that the friendship train of 13 luxurious cars the German Democratic Re-
public's birthday ~1 December] present to Marshal Stalin -- was stopped and
mutilated by Polish partisans while en route to Moscow.
The eyewitness, a locomotive fireman and member of the train's German
crew, stated that the attack occurred about 10 kilometers beyond Warsaw,
The train was stopped by a false signal and about 25 Polish partisans forced
their way into the cars. They destroyed the paneling, mutilated the uphol-
stery, and broke the window panes, No harm was done to the train's crew,
which was ordered to continue the trip after 20 minutes.
Soviet officers were said to have ordered the train ba-k to Frankfurt/
Oder upon its arrival at Brest-Litovsk, after the crew had been sworn to
secrecy.
Lfhe Stockholm newspaper Svenska Dagbladet of 12 February 1951 carries an
identical item.]
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