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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001601000006-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 2, 2002
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: August 1, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORI
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THIS OOCUN&NT C*NTAMN0 tNFOROATION AYPECTIITGTNE NATIONAL DEf'ENST?'.
OF THE UNITED STATES. WITI.fIN THE NEAN*AO O1: TITLE 1$. SECT1OIf3 79R
AND 194. OF THE U $. CORE. As AWENDED. ITS"TRAN3F11A4lON OR AIVRl
ATIUN O1 ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT EY All UNAUTHORIZED PERSON
IS PIORIWITE0 ITT LAW THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIU1T00
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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In early March 1953;
th?-n time required for a round trip between Frankfurt/Oder and Brost
3.ltovsk was considerably reduced by a more efficient handling of transit traffic,I
'W'ork on the enlargement of the Nalaszewice railroad station was being accelerated
New terrain had been staked off and excavation work started0.Now signal boxes were
being built and damaged installations repaired,,2 Manually operated switches were
being replaced by electrically operated ones at the Wiochy marshaling yard on the
western outskirts of 1'arsawu3 Reconditioning work on the permanent way was
observed at various points of the Warsaw-?'Brest Litovsk railroad line.
From 15 March to 7 April 1953 the Lukow- i:erniewice railroad
line was not yet C11 the line will
hardly be finished in this year.- u . sidings nave en built on both sides o
the main track at the 14alaszewice railroad ,station. Five storage sheds,eL ch about
300 meters long,were. erected north of the main track,, Two heavy load. cranes were
observed In operation there,,2
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e run from r ank .rt Oder to Brest Lttovskx, a distance of
is made in aboL 18 hours by the Soviet express train., while a freight trln
T-cquires about 13 hours for the same stretch. This adds up to an average speed of
40 and 16 km per hour respectively,
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recent information on the status of construction work Is not available.
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&z Maiaszewice station is known to be a large transshipping point
directly connected to Brest Litovsk by a Sovietw-gauge track,
this installation was known previously,
marshaling yard,
Information on the enlargement of
E~. entQ It is believed that this information rc;-ors to the Golabki
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