VARIOUS RAILROAD INFORMATION CONNECTED WITH THE UPRISING IN EAST GERMANY AND POLAND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002100620006-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 13, 2005
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: July 20, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Va ?ious railroad Information C.onnectec: with the Uxar3.si in 'Past Ger a nv and Poland {
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1, the railroad bridge over the Oder river at
Fran er a ,een made unserviceable by sa-otage acts and that also
other bridges on the Frankfurt/Oder-Brest Litovsk railroad line had allegedly
been demolished. Some of the eastbound traffic was tieing rerouted via
Kuestrin.l
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2. the details of the Polish militia at Kohlfu t (Weglinice) and 25X1
Wehrkirch Bilawa/Doles) were reinforced. Transit traffic through Horka con- 25X1
tinued smoothly. raffic on the Frankfurt/
Oder--Brest, Litovsk ne was sus en , an rerouted via Stettin. 25X1
numerous bridges had been. demal1shed, by parti#-
. sans in Poland,-'-
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3. I Iexcept for the Transport Division all the SCC a~encies
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a.z ac e. to e -reg. awes regional railroad headquarters had. been dissolved
the 5CC agency attached to the Cottbus regional
railroad headquarters ~ad been deactivated. However, the :ACC Transport. Division
continued functioning.
in Fast rirany;
I uprising
a. Many workers of the railroad repair installations joined the strike movement
while only few orArational personnel took part.
b. On the whole, freight traffic was nori:a2. Passenger traffic was temporarily
interrupted by order of various railroad agencies with a view to prevent
striking workers from moving into large cities, particularly to Berlin.
Thus, for instance, trains occupied by demonstrating workers were not dis-
patched from Rathenow to Berlin on 17 June. SED functionaries employed by tl i.e
East German railroads were attacked by the workers, and some of them were
thrown into a canal.
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C.1 MT- personnel were employed for the guarding of railroad
Lr ges s.n vital railroad imtallatipns. The sane observations
were made regarding public utility plants and adninistzative boil-
dings in the zone.
i e: !en$s, 'Riis inforr:atton agrees with reports
I I according to which the Frankfurt/4der-Erest Litovsk trunk line,
the rein Soviet supply route,, was made unusable because of demolition
work on bridges and tracks. Traffic had to be rerouted.
2. a0aan&. Previously, an SCC agency and a railroad transportation
headquarters had been attached to each East German regional railroad
headquarters. The former, which was composed of Soviet railroad per.onnels
was assigned the mission of supervising the entire traffic in the railroad
district concerned.. The railroad transportation headquarters, which is
composed of officers, is a military agency charged with the supervision
of military traffic. After the replacement of the SCC by a High Commission
the SCC agencies attached to the regional railroad headquarters appear
to have been dissolved.
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