SOVIET TRAIN TRAFFIC THROUGH POLAND

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004200960004-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 23, 2005
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 21, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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25)bATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
Soviet Train Traffic Through Poland
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.
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1. About 60 freight trains., each with a load of approximately 1,800 tons, proceed
through Warsaw to the USSR every 24 hours. The loadac(a+ fsist 0.ha.efly of the
followings
a, ' Coal b
b. Cement.
c?, Bacon.
c Livestock (calves, cows and sheep).
e. Goods imported into Poland from abroad or in transit from Eastern Germany,
especially nonferrous metals) aluminum and rubber.
f. Machinery produced in Poland or in transit from Eastern Germany.
The trains,pr(3ceed from Wazoi via Przemys] Braniewo, or Malaszewice.
2. The train guards are German and the military escorts, are composed of Soviet troops.
The e.cort occupies three frei
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cars or passenger coaches which are distributed
along the train. Because they use passenger coaches for the escort
, the impression
is soma times gained that a freight train is a mixed train carrying an army unit
with its equipment.
When proceeding from Germany to the USSR the trains use the following routes Frank-
furt Oder., Raepin, Poznan, Kutno9 Warsaww /Zacho dnia, Malaszewicze and Brest Litovsk.
1.o When proceeding from the USSR to Germany the following route is useds-Brest Litovsk,
Wars rcu /W schodnia
P
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oznan,
rankfurt/Odor, or when coming from former East Prussia,
Olsztyn, Wars r:_,j Tschodniap Poznan and Frankfurt/Oder.,
These trains: during their journey across Poland are controlled by a Soviet Major
Vladimir Simcrriov who has an office in the Ministry of Communications,]-, Major
Simonov is assisted by six Soviet officials who frequently accompany the trains.
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6 A reserve of coal sufficient for three months is always maintained for these trains
at the following stations s Warsaw,;./Zachodnia, Wars:' .//fschodnia, Poznan, Konin
and Malaszowicze. A coal reserve for Polish trains never exceeds the amount re-
quired for three days,
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probably " the Ministry of Railways as the former Ministry has been
abolished and a matters concerning rail transport have been taken over by the
newly formed Ministry of Railway's,
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