SWINEMUENDE (SWINOUJSCIE) HARBOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001800040001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 5, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2002/01/10 : CIA-RDP80-0081OA001800040001-7
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO..
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25X1 X At dawi the wreck buoy at the entrance to
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inemuende harbor where thi; wi,ack. projected only slightly above the water surface?
-an old AA gun which source had seen previously was still on the tip of the east mole
Two sentries patrolled between two low wooden buildings located a short distance w
river from the east mole. from smoke trailing from their stacks
that they were used as quarters:, at the
channel buoy. about the conversion of Stettin harbor
into a warship harbor under Soviet comrranda the pilot stated that he had been asked
the same question by Danish and Swedish shipks officers and that he knew nothing of
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A total of 15 vessels of the shape and size of German motor mineswe?.pers were seen f+
a brief moment lying in Osternothafen basin as he entrance to
this basin. Source determined their number from their pear-shaped radar scanners whi
were visible above the harbor walls.-) Two warships marked 359 and 360 which carried
the Soviet war ensign were berthed one behind the other at the pier in Osternothafer
basin. Source noticed no radar equipmento
Source noticed intensive building activity up river in the area of the former German
Mining and Barrage Arsenal and concluded from scaffolds that overground buildings we
under construction.
25X1 X 4. At dusk eturned from Stettin, source saw eight vesse
berthed in groups of two at the former destroyer pier, which., on the outside
included T 307, T 403, T 472 and T 713
5 When in the offing, source noticed that an area on the beach about 5 km west from th
outskirts of Swinemuende was lighted by searchlights and,, with his field glasses,
saw several scaffolds but no finished buildingso
_,Gc ent . The vessels fitted with pear-shaped radar scanners probably were
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