INFORMATION ON THE STATE SECRETARIAT SHIPPING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003100450003-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 7, 2003
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: January 27, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT IM0.
JIM!, F~111% _V,
10M RF AT
CD I-40.
'l. 447
COUNTRY
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
fast Germany
Information on that 3taate See::~otar?ia u Shiopi ng
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DATE D1S"I R. 27 January 1954
NIO.O ENCLS,
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
1. In late August 1953, Polard nego,~iated with Lost GerLan6y on deliver, in ]_9'%3
of 2,0OO,OOO tons of low-?;rade pd~-d, cos. from t.h~_:~ rtberdistrict which wee
to be loaded in Maltsch or,, the Oder River near ca.l:>reter -304,.8 and was t:, to
transported to Fast Gerrvriy by water. Transportation was still a prob:le v,;,
however, bs with the Eder River still running loj,t eater barges could n4 ae
used. Another probler, for the Germans was the question of how coal ccr gcc coin,:
be ].ocded in 14a.ltsch, ~ther?e, to the knowledge of the State ,iecretar?iat, ;3l pping,
only three titers and thrc a cranes of between 2.8 and 4 tons lift ca ra cl -y weri::
available and where, in lc138, the tots"? turnover, had been 1,000.000 tons?
2. On I October 1953, the waterways rain office in Rostock was merged with the
waterways office in Stral.fund with headquartersa in 3~tr?, Isimid, Stern (fnu) war-,
appointed head of the new o r fi_ce ,, The former h= +d of the office in Rostock was
to tt.ke over the office in Wt ren on the Nuerit.z Lake to replace ai ;i.neeer t3riese (fnu)
who was assigned to the 1!hB 'r?o?iel_tierung der -a_hiffaahrt (aaipping Project Office) in Schwerin.
3 ~ On 10 September 1953., '4i1F s1rs : ck: ulze head of he DSU operational section in Ber-
lin, was dismissed without notice on the gr_ouad>, that he had tcle3rate.3 2rti^1sm
of the SID by emplo!yeaa,, particularly of r.eaGuros ri:ken after 1? Juiae 1953 and
the elections in West Germany. 1r der (fnu), head of the port of
l a._?max q
was also dismissed without notice on suspiOion.?:hat he was an a ,eat, as h had z ll
yacht built for 30 ?000 eastnarks. Feuerabend (fnu) heed of be
material supply section of the State Secretariat, Shi-pping, was disc i s::e:i on
18 September 1953, because his wife had collected a fold parcel in West- 13arlia"
The two were SED members.,
4. After night trial trips had been carried out by a motor boat, night nas,it~a tio:r was
scheduled to be opened on the stretch between Hohensas_ter and NJ.eg ^i.nn on 3. ,S,y--._
tember 1953. Some of t-., i ght,3 ieq .red for n:;:ght navigation were. lhowever, not
yet installed. Almost a, l ?c z t c :c;: c,g, thosa whi eh had been scheduled to be erected
in dry arms or on shoals of the river were still unavailable, The barge skippers
disliked night navigation., They told, for ex-ample, that during an upstream trial
trip on the Elbe River as far as YL-gdeburg, the 41cipperdazzled by the b_ i.Ebt
iighto ashoreyvwas uriaUc to nuke ~,wt t e ~': '""?"fit'' through the bridge;. ?[3..."Fa
CLASSIFICATION SECRb'r
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la, rned hat ?irmino, the lights rshore hrcR proved uiff1cu1.~t teaata e
of the ?l of is .' q r' , f. tC~2 je 1 F.1it? th a f: ?+enr tures invn~ ve{1
of n g t n . viryr'F tion o;r he :11)a T fiver
ro:?t? ~o)Tl?d n c
5 n ~: e to rhes , s i r_~ ' s .r (' 'tp.P f .,rt/Cder L nd Gros:- I'eue;fidor, f tu..d to
be ui;,eontinucu reea of irsuffie. ent ;:ter depths in the t k',r
On 4 SeptemL.,e : ,f, 1953; it Was rea'? if ed that 700,000 tors of
co_:'1 coulter t beet 'C( pted 1y t"F3'.".e R`' S'ZiT'.f 6!3?oiron, :.E"'co:rtd . .It:tyr
''i;a'!.a;r^ c':rrw t>a'y'y on .` exter:ie 1 ?is~ to Jcx.,e:w to 6.11scass Lite
;t4i 7A~i:."1"r ei of "fl e 00(' 0(10 7 l.cn of c+ ]. the Fo1e l-, f;' Y3.e"GgYt?:i.'_"er`!: to CS E:=J-
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6 i:ceorcAnj- to '.'.he 1'c'53 plan, e totri of 45.,OOC tons of l:i't l:eacl and
1~.~ 7'17.:te vz z, c ~`F l Ott ti'.ir A ?^ r? fequi::'er:Ien t^- of the, inI tnd flee CllRice
le raied t n:; ,, Were 1954, tt' ~ i~ .e I : '3_ oet , ,.~oul e convert to
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i h,4,,t J 'e .j_ ,r nj.te :^.t R --he g:1 would .a r. d
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, vc,iir,11c for ci v''I? :.^n consuvr >L Lc.n r.
74 ^,e i:11, r _ 6 I i t er of i)G~es u.-:'e1Jr f t!?Y_r .f art to be closed don 1 ect.i: ,,e
of rotter. tme.',rge r:rlc3 leek of wire ro-oe;?. for qu:.y in,,Ar.11,tion No
funds wer^ vvri1c'! 1.o for repE.itn 11 e _rton crt:ne u s tren: r'_'rred ?ion
en to )re 1(in t r"ao was iwrc ed oce - to Vie Iat;fc''~'e, J'?F ilrof;'1 ~s
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