RAILROAD CUSTOMS STATION IN FRANKFURT/ODER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004501140007-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 10, 2007
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 27, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT
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CLASSIFICATION
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
East Germany/Poland
Railroad Customs Station
in Frankfurt/Oder
DATE DISTR. 27 September 1954
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NO. OF ENCLS.
SUPPLEMENT
REPORT NO.
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18. SECTIONS 793
AND 794. OF THE U. S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVEL-
ATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON
j PROHIBITED BY LAW THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. On 23 May 1954, when the new summer timetable went into effect,
the newly erected Oderbruecke border station in Frankfurt/Oder
was put into operation. The station which handles transit traffic
in the direction of Brest Litovsk was equipped with three tracks.l
At the new station trains are taken over by the Polish State Railroads
which also furnished the tractive power. German locomotive brigades
previously handling Soviet transit traffic through Poland will be'
disbanded. Of the 130 brigade locomotives stationed in Frankfurt/Oder,
50 are scheduled to be lent to the Poles.
2. On 24 May 1954, the new railroad border station in Frankfurt/Oder
was opened to traffic. 1
Comment. The station is located between the eastern boundary
o Frankfurt Oder and the bridge over the '4 agran
of the trackage of the station
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