SOVIET DANUBE CONVOY BELIEVED TRANSPORTING JET FUEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001700380004-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 7, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 21, 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 Is prohibited.
SECRET/CONTROL - U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY
SECURITY INFORMATION
SUBJECT Soviet Danube Convoy Believed
Transporting Jet Fuel
DATE OF INFO.
REPORT 25X1
DATE DISTR. 21 July 1953
NO. OF PAGES 1
REQUIREMENT NO. RD 25X1
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This is UNEVALUATED
Information
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE" DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. I a convoy was seen moving upstream on the Danube at the
Stadlauer bridge in Vienna. It was led by a Rumanian motor ship, on the
bridge of which stood a Soviet naval officer.
2. At a distance of about one kilometer, a tug followed, flying the Soviet flag
and another -flag (Palverflagge) designating the cargo as infl ble and/or
explosive, it carried the name Sevastopol in Cyrillic letters and towed two
heavily loaded tank barges. The tank barges were conspicuously clean and
bore no traces of oil loading. The vessels were manned by Soviet sailors.
3. Another tug, 'owing two tank barges which were apparently not loaded, fol?
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