SINKING OF SS AKADEMIK KRYLOV

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003000330007-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 2, 2009
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 30, 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-US OFFICIALS ONLY
SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY USSR/Poland
SUBJECT Sinking of SS AKADEMIK KRYLOV
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED,
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 39 November 1953
NO. OF PAGES 1
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. In the middle of August 1953, the Soviet SS AKADE 1K KRYLOV, after leaving
Gdynia with a cargo of grain, sank about 60 miles off Rozewie.
2. The grain cargo was loose, and the holds were without partitions. As the
ship ran into a storm, the grain shifted in the holds and the ship sank
within a few minutes.
Either nine or nineteen of the crew were saved;
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