NOTES ON EAST GERMAN MOTOR TRAFFIC AND ROADS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004100240002-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 22, 2002
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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AL ~L.LIt N G . OY REPORT NO
C VICAT1QN SECRET
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO. I 25X1A
COUNTRY East Germany
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SUBJECT Notes on.East German Motor Traffic and Roads NO. OF PAGES 2
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DATE OF
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DATE DISTR. I June1954
NO. OF ENCLS.
(L1STEO BELOW)
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rba fa !bldg i. ' ~, the 1953 annual report by the
East German State Secretariat of Motor Traffic and Roads:
142,965,465 tons
2, 566, 743, 260 tons/kcal
4,221,360,540
1,226,926,760
350,627,456
Total number of kilometers run 1,577,554,216
Cc!Le1Lnm1ion of Fuel;
Freight affic
Motor Vehjcle Performance;
Paylbads carried
Performance
Freight, space offered
Number of kilometers run
while loaded
Number of kilometers run
while empty
Gasoline
Diesel oil
Generator gas
Buses;
Gasoline
Diesel oil
Sedans and 1 otorcycles;
Gasoline
61,200
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164,250 tons
112,000
10,78o is
14,400
17,200
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2. In late February the East German Vinistry of the Interior
had given an order to design a roa between Strausberg and Eggersdorf
southhas.t of Stx?ausberg. Work on the project, which was s
completed.in 1954, has already been started. The sum of 5
been allocated, 2
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are correct. The tabulation indicates that a total of 37Q,000 metric tons of
fuel were contaned in the traf'f'ic Seox ale.,ie ._fue. ,rcuix.errents of
t} e East Ceram. eG ? Spy are at about the Gee level:} it is estir:ated that
cosu'npt~ion Qf the ,F, s Gexman civ iaa ecgnosny approxi-
the total nmil f ,
mates 1 .0,000 tons. In 1953, 735,000 tons of fuel were allocated for civilian
consi. pttan, This represents about 50 percent of the total 1953 fuel production.;
Fuel consumption by the EVP is eat ted at ut 50 0 0 tons that
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lion tons.
n ext Large-scale KVP construction project
XVP encias azd referred to by the des_ ignati
Eerlintl are being e eutea in the Strausberg area
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his construction work ordered b the fast German
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