RAIL FREIGHT TRAFFIC THROUGH EAST GERMAN BORDER STATIONS

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CIA-RDP80-00810A006900640007-2
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RIPPUB
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S
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3
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December 21, 2016
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March 21, 2008
Sequence Number: 
7
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Publication Date: 
April 28, 1955
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REPORT
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Approved For Release 2008/03/21 : CIA-RDP80-0081 OA006900640007-2 SECRE 1s t Germ Y EVALUAT1ON J P A DATE OF CONTEND DATE OBTA# REFERENCES PAGES, REMARKS .._.REPORT 1. The following shipments became 25X1 25X1 ENCLOSURES ($0. & TYPE). 4 and 16 April 1955: B - boxcar F - flatcar SS - heavy-duty flatcar T - tankear Date in Number and Load April Type of Cars 4 3 B, 21 Ss 1 B, 50 F 1,700 tons 50 trucks 5 Ji cars 34 T 13 46 B 16 34 T 50 trucks undetermined uranium ore undetermined 2. The following shipments were observed April: G -. gondola car Date in Number and April Tyi of Cars 9 do" 56 0 56 G 40 T 46 B 56 B 11 56 G 56 B 55 B coke iron ore undetermined Uranium ore undetermined empty undetermined Brest Litovsk it Magdeburg 3 Brest Litovsk 4 via Falkenberg 3 between 9 and 16 Frankfurt/Oder Frankfurt/Oder Ziltendorf 25X1 25X1 25X1 Approved For Release 2008/03/21 : CIA-RDP80-0081 OA006900640007-2 DATE PREPARED Brest Litovsk Magdeburg Guben Zwickau Guben at Frankfurt/Oder Erfurt 1 Cottbus 2 Approved For Release 2008/03/21 : CIA-RDP80-0081 OA006900640007-2 sSECRET 11 56 G #$ F 35 T 12 56 G 56 G 56 G 56 F 55 B 56 B 56 G 56 G 56 B iron ore iron tubes empty iron ore It it iron tubes undetermined 13 56 G coke 56 F iron tubes 56 G iron ore 15 1 shipment 60 three-ton trucks 16 52 F 56 G 56 G 55 B iron tubes iron ore lumber undetermined Date in Number and April Type of Cara 17 47 cars 1,348 tons 18 22 F exceeding standard measurements AltruppinE, l g 4 cars On 11 ADril. boxcars with military goods Oder to Velten Wildpark dispatched from Frankfurt/ Comment. The weight of the ship*ent and the type of cars tend to indicate that T-54 tanks. were shipped. The receiving station and the fact that ho load exceeding standard measurements was recorded contradict that assumption. The shipment was possibly identical with the air force shipment Comment. These shipments were pos-,ibl- connected with the motor vehicle exchange program.Cottbus was presumably only an intermediate station from which the shipments were forwarded toward the East. Comment. Probably a shipment of aviation gasoline 4. Comment. Uranium ore shipments to the USSR which a