HARBOR INSTALLATIONS AT MELNIK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006200600006-4
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2008
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 5, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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.INFO;RMATION REPORT. INFORMATION REPO,RT
CENTRAL "INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
DATE OF INFO.
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Harbor Installations at Melnik
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1. The harbor at Melnik (N49-51, E17-16)was constructed and put into use in 25X1
1937. Since then,-apart from two added warehouses, nothing has changed.
There is not much activity in the harbor at present; mostly rice and salt
are unloaded there., Four ships can be loaded at the same time '.and the
harbor can take ships up to ]eOO tons.. About 70 men are permanently employed
at the harbor.
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Legend for the attached .sketch:
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Harbor canal branching off the east bank of the Elbe River and running
due-.east for.about 350 m., then dividing into two branches. Both branches
are about 11.00 m. long and 60 in.. wide and run parallel in a southeastern
direction. The . mouth. of the canal is about. 40 in. wide.and 4 m., deep.
Of the two branches the western fors _ the proper harbor. The sides of
this branch are concreted. On the peninsula, which is about 100 m.
wide and 400 m. long between the two branches, are loading cranes and
reloading installations.
(2) Branch railroad line,, which branches off from the Melnik railroad
station, runs. ~ around. the northern outskirts of the town, then closesly
follows the eastern bank of the Elbe with one branch and fans out into
the peninsula with the other branch:
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Branch railroad line leading into a former sawmill, now converted into
,a shipbuilding installation.
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(4) Your electric cranes, Skoda type,. carrying capacity 3.5 tons.,. installed
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since 1937..
Twowarehouses.,
brick , one story only,, each 110 x 40 m.; the
first was built in 1937, the second in 1942. Each contains a small
apartment for the warehouseman.
(6) Electric transformer for the harbor.
(7) Warehouse building for reloading,., built of corrugated metal with iron
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framewvrk,,,70 x 30 m. The building is used. when the harbor is full
and was erecte'd specifically for this purpose during the war.
Customs and CSPLO (Czechoslovak Elbe-Oder/Navigation) offices.,. ;comprising
-a small,., brick . , One'-story customs office and, next to it-, a smaller
wooden building for CSPLO office.
Stores belonging formerly to the Vacuum Oil Company and having underground
tanks,,
(10) New ahip$lding installation, built between 1950 and March 1954. It
is a rei csrced concrete building,about 150 x 60 m. The shipway runs
from north to south into the eastern branch. of the harbor canal.
(11) Former :sawmill, later used for the manufacture of Perun washing machines,
now converted into a shipbulding installation,.; brick,.ab'out 80 x 40 m..
Pontoons for the army are built there at present; later it is 'to be
used, as a repair shop for the. CSC --, w p ships. Up to now about 400 workers
have been employed there. Parts for dredgers for export to the USSR
were also td be made there:
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Sheet 3853/3Wt3E AMS 872
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