THE PORT OF CONSTANTA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000900430005-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 20, 2009
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: April 14, 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 793 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 to prohibited.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT The Port of Constanta
PLACE ACQUIRE
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 14 April 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. An increase in the number of Soviet'military personnel to be seen on the
streets of Constanta has been noted. In Damp rieon to three months a
the increase Etta 30 to 50 percent. A
e pas s most of the personnel seen were o ceres some women among them.
2.
6.
(total absence of two types of.
officers who were 'prerjouslyy, seen, frequently, These were officers wearing tank
insignia and officers wearing high, closed blue collars.
The dock area is presently guarded only during the night in contrast to the
previous practice of guarding the area both day and night. Approximately 150
Soviet troops armed with automatic weapons are brought to the area every night
from the northeast section of Constanta;
The harbor and its approaches are watched at all times by a crew situated in
an observation tower in the Constanta railroad station.
ensign; a blue and white flag
easels of Romtransport are now flying a new
with hammer and sickle superimposed.
(the Constanta port now has a grain elevator
with a loading capacity of ri s5OO tons every four hours, larger than any in
Germany." No new construction projects were noted either in the city or the
harbor.
The Soviet ship MOSKVA and the Rumanian ship ALBA IULIA were laid up in dry
dock during the middle of Janyary 1953.
8. Soviet tankers. continue to arrive and depart at the rate of one every two
days. The pumping of oil into, Soviet holds does not cease; though non.Soviet
tankers are filled on a dawn-to-dark basis, Soviet tankers..are loaded
around-the--clock. The tankers that call at Constanta are almost exclusively
Soviet.
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Apart from oi19 ergo taken aboard by Soviet ships consists mainly of grai
cement, iron and metal tubing, In"return, the Soviet ships bring ore and
cotton, A Soviet passenger liner unl aded 150 passengers at Constant, in
early January 195
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