RAIL FREIGHT TRAFFIC THROUGH FRANKFURT/ODER AND KUESTRIN

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CIA-RDP80-00810A002800910007-7
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RIPPUB
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S
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3
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December 23, 2016
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August 2, 2013
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7
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Publication Date: 
December 16, 1953
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REPORT
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/02 : CIA-RDP80-00810A00280091000rifv-71 -HUM CLASSIFICATION SECRET/CONT1tOL 1J,S,_pfFICIALS ONLY CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPOR 1NFORMATOON REPORT CD NO. COUNTRY Est Germany .SUBJECT Rail Freight Traffic through Fr:-Inkfurt/Oder and Kuestrin PLACE ACQUIREC DATE OF INFO. THIS DOCUMENT COOMBS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES. WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE IS. SECTIONS 709 AND 794. OF THE U. S. CODE. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSGIISSION OR REVEL- ATION Of ITS CONTENTS TO on RECEIPT NY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS PROHIBITED NT LAW THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED. DATE DISTR. 16 Dec 1953 - NO. OF PAGES 3 NO. OF ENCLS. (LISTED BELOW) SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT NO. THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION, 50X1-HUM 50X1-HUM Shipments observed at the Frankfurt/Oder marahaling yard arriving from Brest Litovsk included 12 flatcars with 15 trucks dispatched to Fuerstenwalde on 19 September 1953 and 20 flatcars with 25 rocket launchers dispatched in the direction of Berlin on 24 September. 2. On 19 September, the railroad carpentry shop at Berlin Ostbahnhof was ordered by the SCC to convert 80 transitworthy boxcars into troop pars. The cars were to be dispatched to Frankfurt/Oder. On 20 September, 40 of these cars left for Frankfurt/Oder. Rummelsburg railroad station was also to dispatch 4.0 tran. sitworthy'boxcars to Frankfurt/Ocler.1 3. The following eastbound empty troop cars passed through Frankfurt/ 50X1-HUM Oder: 39 on 21 September, 40 each on 22 and 24 September, and 44 on 26 Sept- ember. 4. On 25 and 26 September, shipments with 568 and 760 repatriated PIs respectively passed through Fr fart/Oder en route to Eisenach. Two more shipments with PWs were expected. 5o the following shipments passed through Frankfurt/Oder and Kuestrin between 19 and 27 September: 50X1-HUM B -.boxcar C . coach F - flatcar G gondola car T - tank car Date in Number and From aedember_Mr21.2La_er 19 42T 39 oars " CLASSIFICATION: STATE X I AVY ARMY AIR 50X1-HUM To Troeglitz Plagwitz Bad Salzungen SECRET/CONTROL - ? DISTRIBUTION Ii I Stettin Brest Litovsk Kuestrin U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/02 : CIA-RDP80-00810A002800910007-7 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/02 : CIA-RDP80-00810A002800910007-7 SEMAIMITIN0. erna'ZALS OMY ?2- 50 cars Bad Salzungen Kuestrin 4 Bo 26 Fo Frankfurt/Oder Altangrabow 40 38 T Troeglitz 38 T Beehlen- 21 25 T 22 20T 17 B- 10,11 23 46 carp 35T? 24 49 cars 12? Bo 10 03 ? 27 Fg 3 C 25 ?46 cars 49,, 49 " 34 F, 2 G 55 T 7T 26 50 oars 50"? 35 T. ? 154 T 27 50 cars 51 T 51 oars 2 ft Buna Altengrabow ft Ane Troeglitz Plagwitz. Neuruppin Frankfurt/Oder Sohwarzenberg Sollstedi. Bad Salzungen Frankfurt/Oder Grpse.ccr'Oatha Boehlen Glueckauf Unterbreizbach Grosskorbetha 11. Sollstodt Grosskorbetha Ikterbreizbach Stettin Zhabinka Brest Litovsk Finow Dannenwalde Brest Litovsk Stettin Brest Litovsk Roederau' Altengrabaw Brest Litovsk. Kuestrin Oranienburg Danzig Zhabinka Kuestrin Stettin Danzig Brest Litovsk Danzig Kuestrin 50X1-HUM Commentq. Empty cars for the repatriation of NO. The arrival of Ms in East Germany was confirmed by press reports. .50X1-HUM g4lamito Deliveries of East Germaa'hyrogenation plants to the USSR and Poland. ? ?50X1-HUM SECRET/CONTROL . U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/02 : CIA-RDP80-00810A002800910007-7 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/02 : CIA-RDP80-00810A002800910007-7 0 5. 6. SEOTIEWOONTROT; - U.S. OFEICIALS ONLY 50X1-HUM Comment. the shipment consisted of motor vehicles0 these shipments as consisting' of prime movers and for towing artillery pieces? 50X1-HUM Comment. Probably intrazonal shipments between Soviet eunmunition ae 50X1-HUM - -HUM pots? Cnmment,_Aranium nra ehimenta to the USSR. 50X1-HUM ? Comment. The index figure mentioned indicates that the shipment consisted. of motor vehicles, probably personnel carriers or armored scout .cars, consigned to the KVP. SBOISTAMMIL - LS=MAW MU Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/02 : CIA-RDP80-00810A002800910007-7