DETERIORATION OF THE WARSAW SUBWAY TUNNELS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004200750002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 4, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: July 21, 1954
• 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.B. 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.
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SECRE CONTROL U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY
COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT
Deterioration of the Warsaw
Subway Tunnels
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
NO. OF PAGES
REQUIREMENT NO.
REFERENCES
21 July.1954
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This is UNEVALUATED
Information
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
The underground tunnels of the Warsaw Subway cannot be used in their existing
state as air raid shelters because of many strong springs of subsurface water
in some places and loose soil in others. Many of the shafts and tunnels are
already unusable.
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work on the Warsaw subway
was aban oned early in 1954 because of soil subsidence, other information hska
suggested that the project has only been postponed in favor of higher prior
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