OBSERVATIONS IN SZCZECIN (STETTIN) AND SWINOUJSCIE (SWINEMUENDE)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003600570001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 25, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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Observations in Szczecin (Stettin) and
Swinoujscie (Swinemuende)
REQ. 193-4
three new ships of about 2,500 , with a large
tall s .p supers ructuxe with marry portholes, a raised forecastle
i. reed poop,, which had two masts, forward and aft.of the ariidship
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atruct rg and two `'oz,gr c son --osts and another two aft of the
ih structi'e and a total of about twelve derricks were at the
W {Shipyard) in Stettin.
one, of the skips would undergo shakedown runs on 1_3 and 11+
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,un e! boiit 20 Ndo vimber 1953. Informant saw four building 21i .s
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ae shipyard and, as. he saw no fixed cranes or cableways or scaf
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concluded +h t t 'k?uild'-rig slips were serviced by cranes running on
tracks. A large shee_rlegs-type rigging pontoon was moored at the island
off the shipyard. Informant saw no floating docks.
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On f~er way Goeteborg, informant saw a large suction
u 0r __n In the Half (Lagoon), which pumped the spoil to the low
s to starboard of the outgoing ship at the junction of the Paiserfahrt
and the fiaff.
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A total of l Pr boats, each armed with two
toxTpdo tr b s, w e r e b ed in Osternothafen. Informant believed that they
we of idea oaf tie ard had a short mast fitted with an incased pear-
shaped device and an enclosed wheelhouse.
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