RAILROAD TRAFFIC TO THE EAST

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005500190002-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
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• Content Type: REPORT

COUNTRY East Germany
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES. WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE IN. SECTIONS 799
AND 7S4. OF THE U. S. CODE. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVEL-
ATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON
SUBJECT Railroad Traffic to the East NO. OF PAGES 25X1
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
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CLASSIFICATION SECRET
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPOR~
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
DATE DISTR. 23 December 1954
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORTF
Effective immediately, all flatcars without
25X1
sideracks and flatcars with folding sidewalls are to be broken
down according to transitworthy (for use on international trains)
and non-transitworthy equipment in stock-taking reports. This order
will remain in force until further notice. The transitworthiness of
rolling stock is to be determined by rolling-stock foremen. Transitworthy
flatcars must 'be marked by the symbol "R IV". The next inspection of
these cars should not be made before four weeks have expired. No type
R or X flatcar which was classified transitworthy can be loaded without
special permission by the Railroad Car Distribution Point. Steel works
will be notified that R or X type flatcars dispatched to them must be
withdrawn. All violations of this order will be prosecuted.
On 1 November 1954, the Brandenburg steel works was notified by the
Brandenburg-Altstadt railroad station that effective immediately no 25X1
railroad cars would be loaded and that railroad cars already on
the way to the works must be returned empty to the railroad station
without delay.)
Since 25 October 1954, trains of empty flat cars have been dispatched
to the East. Between 25 October and 1 November 1954, seventeen such
contradistinction to shuttle trains used in connection with 1
fall personnel rotation program:.
Since early October, one train loaded with deactivated motor vehicles
has been dispatched from the
SR per da
y.
Shipments)
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on 27 Oct
ober 1.954 included:
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51 boxcars with ammunition from Brest-Litovsk to Toepchin;3
20 boxcars with ammunition{ and 12 araah o r-fX~= F-i rt/Oder to
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M 6. Railroad shipments
to Brest Litovsk on the days mentioned included:
Date in Number and Number of Dispatched.
October Type of Cars Tons From
16 - 17 boxcars
21 50 flatcars
Srerenber? to Brest-Litovsk.
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7 boxcars
40 flatcars
-__736 Altruppin
740 Neuruppin
137 Perleberg
557
Schwerin
dispatched
7. On 29 October, one troop car and 31 flatcars were dispatched from
Comment. This measure is unusual. The assembly and dispatch to
the East of trains of empty flatcars may be connected with commercial
transactions or reflect military intentions. The flatcars without
dideracks and flatcars with folding sidewalls which have a load capacity
of 15 tons each are not suitable for the transportation of commodities
usually exported from the USSR to the GDR. From a military point of view,
the movement of empty rolling stock to the East may serve the following
purposes: .
a. An increased shipping of new motor vehicles from the USSR to
the GDR within the framework of the motor vehicle exchange program
under way since late July 1954.
b. A delivery of heavy weapons (for the KVP?):
c. Shipment of crated aircraft for the 24th Air Army or the KVP (Air).
.The delivery of tanks, SP guns, or other heavy loads such as railroad
rails is ruled. out the restricted load-carr i a acit th
flatcars concerned.
the
cars may no a use immediately and their utilization may depend
on certain developments possibly of a political nature.
the trains reported will operate as shuttle trains between the
R and the GDR. The latter assumption would mean that the trains
will make four or five runs within a period of four weeks.
V P. Comment. These shipments consisted of deactivated motor vehicles )
pro a ly trucks returned to the USSR within the fra / mntnr. vehicle
3. Comment. A well known Soviet ammunition depot is located at
Toepchin.
The shipment probably originated in the Soviet ammunition depot at the
GDR.
Comment.) I this shipment was
to e dispate#xea o o*rea. such a a ement was made for the first time.
shipment may have consisted of equipment or small arms.
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