MISCELLANEOUS EAST GERMAN RAILROAD INFORMATION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 2001
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: May 19, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 70 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form IS prohibited.
2CRST/00111SOL - U. OFFICIALS' ONLY
SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Vast Germe4
SUBJECT
25X14ATE OF INFO.
_PLACE ACQUIRED
aneons EaBt German Railroad
Information
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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14 On 0 4nuert,1953-01
of the DirectOr*e General Railroads .Berlin that the planned traffic
conference of the -German railroad aftinistratiOn would not take place before
the new isitganizationar-Atet_vii-ar the German railroads had been awroved.
The 'Directorate General*, lkailroadey has 3inginitted to the East German Council
of Ministers tWI: Organizational plans0i
PA.ttuaiQR o the present
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.ste,Thaffj rdAtiertAtAWARPOA
ylmOactoitoss4. ;the .7.4itstst oratc,14ersegait
_TaXiQVtU.bpq:sjade into state secretariats
d. /404; envisages that the Directorate General", Railroads, 1.111
ed into a railittad ministryy, with Wollweber functioning as
id Statster as clowty. Itinister. /t is suggeotea to attach
Gn.eraIbetriebSleitUrIgefl. (Operations Ileaacpart,ers) to the
7141rOad Ministry, which will be paralleled, by a Ministry of Transportation,
which will inelazdte the 'preitiO4. Directorate General, Shipping And. Motor
.Traffic .as State''Seoretatiatso' 25X1X
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- Of the Directorate General, . tOr?
the construction Of toting facilities at Specific railroad stations n the zonal
boundaries 'between East Ana ,Tiot $patri.
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and th a t
strict issued an order that a sizeable
titled wheel set.s, which c dbe used
e ayaiiabl.e w tHu a abort period.
io s to be apprOwed b the
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In late -anury,
the Freight Iraffic Departm t of be Directorate Omer 7, Rai -Oa faxen
bed been traniferred as a railroad expert to the M ni atr of the Interior
at 2 Schnaleratrasse and was given the rank of captain*
uart
otim
aS no change in the
RuednitS05
In late atiury, 1000MOtilreS of 'the 25X1A
Ca tints 11/444, -a c been tempo aril"' put into operat:.iou,
Were again parked at their previous locations*
On 10 reizarizort railroad 25X1A
headquarters bad been ordered to ke arkilable ofqces for 10 officers
funotiOnire asrii? railroad transportation officers**
the Greifewald 25X1A
ad.. . dttuATtoro to fttenish as.. SOOn as-VOW:1;4e,- 120 loading
nka.And VariOus, eqUipment needed_ for ;the conversion of
;rooptranapOte, The equipment re-vett:tea Apt to be
ed at. ITeataniteninceg.,,T
IMMMtbat railroad 25X1A
were to be established at all r lroad Junctions
_.itsry osto of the Grotto/41d, railroad. districti
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try of 'transportation was reported preiricrusly-4
ization of the Ministry of Traffic into a Railros.d Ministry
ization would follow the Soviet pattern*
ticsa is received, for the first time, but is believed to be
Le gnn.. is Peputt Tarector General for Transp=tation end
He Iragialretibilly ssacle responsible for the present, crisis
In 'the t 'Geo= railroad. system
It is believed that these freight cars will be used. at the intended
railroad Plea points, along the zonal boundary until permanent control
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The Mini etry of the InteriOr inductee the Ministry for National rdtcee
which WAS Scheduled to etawrise a railroad department.
The &eta-Chi/out for a raiiroat expert to this taiittary tranSpOrtation
department is credible, It it believed that in connection with the
rimsilitarization of last Germany, VP transportation control, headquarters
'sill be established at the individual regional railroad headquarters.,
Information On the establishment in other railroad districts of such
VP transportation control headquarters has; not been received. Since
the organization or VP unite-has:bade the *mutest progress in the Greifs*
weld 'railroad tistriStf which ,corers the northeastern section of Mecklen-
burg., it appears possible that the first VP transportation control
headquarters was established in that railroad district0
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This ttfOrItsktiOn confirms the Location of deactivated Lomotive
CO1uttr.004 3 in Ruednitt-aod'No4, 13 in DmOheros-, 25X1A
This information rofon to reserve loctiorbives-tf the Cottbus 25X1A
regional 'railroad heattuerters which sere temporarily ueed4
This trier is connected. 'with intended troop otoveittetits4
these railroad transportation control
be established by order of the BCC,/ They will
y during the spring when the, tri;Xrps will be
Ittort0 to troop training grounds.,
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