NAVAL ACTIVITIES AT SASSNITZ

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004200970007-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 4, 2010
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 7, 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.
SECRET/CONTROL - U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Naval Activities at Sassnitz
REPORT
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7 June 195+
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1. During the night from 1 to 2 April 1954., naval exercises -took place to the
north of, but close to, the harbor of Sassnitz. Taking part in the exercises
were three Soviet submarine chasers and three East German trawlers. The
submarine chasers fired at targets out at sea, and the trawlers swept mines.
No further observations were possible due to darkness.
2. The following vessels were observed in Sassnitz harbor on 2 and 3 April;
a. Six old Soviet torpedo 'boats, each about 40 meters long and equipped with
two torpedo tubes amidships, these boats probably 25X1
were former German vessels which were to be turned over to the East German
navy,
b. Three new Soviet torpedo cutters, each with a radar installation on the
foredeck.
c. A large, old East German trawler of about 400-500 gross tons, which was
not armed and was probably used to quarter seamen.
3. The following vessels were observed in Sassnitz harbor on 16 April:
a. Five Soviet torpedo :utters.
b. Three late-model submarine chasers.
c. Two East German patrol vessels, each armed with one anti-aircraft gun of
about 25-mm caliber which was located on the foredeck near the captain's
bridge, and two anti-aircraft guns of the same caliber located amidships
and aft of the captain?s bridge. One vessel, the FRITZ THAELMANN (sic),
was considerably larger than the other; the name of the second vessel was
obscured by the FRITZ THAELMANN and could not be read.
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