RAILROAD TRAVEL KLAIPEDA-BREST-WARSAW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000300020009-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2009
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: April 2, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains Information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
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Railroad Travel Klaipeda-Brest Warsaw DATE DISTR. 2 Apr11.l 53
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continuing from Brest to Warsaw. The Klaipeda train con-
sisted of about 20 cars and a large steam locomotive, with four or five
first, or soft, class cars, and the remainder third, hard, class cars.
The train left Brest at 1825 Soviet time and arrived at Baranovichi
(N53-O8,E26.02) at 2300, where it was necessary to change trains, leaving
aranovichi the next day at 1925 in a train of the same description. This
train arrived at Vilnius at 0100, where there was another change, the
next train leaving at 2010 and arriving at Klaipeda about 0700 the next
morning. On the return trip the schedule was; depart Klaipeda 1900,
arrive Vilnius 07009 change trains, depart Vilnius 0900, arrive.Barano-
vichi 15009 change to a Polish train, depart Baranovichi 1600 Soviet
time, arrive Warsaw 2000 Polish time.
2. For the trip from Brest to Klaipeda,a through ticket was bought. This,
together with the receipt for the ticket and a seat-reservation ticket,
must be shown at the ticket-control office. Seat reservations are valid
only for the stretches Brest-Baranovichi, Baranovichi-Vilnius, and Vil-
nius-Klaipeda, and it is necessary to have a seat reservation to get on
the train. *There are no round-trip tickets. In the ticket lines, where
passengers must get their new seat.reservations, people were very impa-
tient, making much noise, shouting, and pushing. Persons travelling
first class had only to approach an official at the stations, probably
railway police, and then this man would go to the ticket window, push the
first few people aside, and get the tickets. The line reacted to this
treatment with shouts and growls.
The impression was that first class was used very little, while third
class was fully occupied and crowded. At all stations there was a big
crowd, and much confusion. In the stations people slept between their
bundles on the floor, and the local population was dirty and irritable.-
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the third-class sleeper was not divided into 25X1
compartments-s and had numbered, wooden berths, wit out mattresses or 25X1
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blankets. The latter could be obtained for ten rubles extra. The cars
were crammed with passengers, sleeping in two tiers, or sometimes three,
with men, women, and children in the same car. The Soviet train was well
kept.and painted, but one could expect to get lice in third class.
The main street in Vilnius seemed much nicer than streets in the other
cities, except for the.railway-station area, which was just as bad as the
others. The city seemed.cleaner and better kept than the other cities.
There were fewer lines and many different kinds of stores,reven souvenir
shops,and bookshops with political literature of every kind. Among the
publications noticed was a book with a bright-colored cover, on which
was drawn a spider with a dollar sign.
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