SOVIET RAIL BORDER TRAFFIC AT FRANKFURT/ODER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006900900008-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 2008
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 5, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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1, The following rail shipmate from Brest-Litovsk were observed at the
Framkfwrt/ader railroad station between 18 aaed 21 Aerie 1955:
Date in Shipment To
18 22 P with aircraft crates A.4truppin
21 24 F " " it Beuruppin
16 F " tanks $sinsdorf
49 F, 4 B with trucks toward Eberawalde
24 19 F with aircraft crates Merseburg
5 B with military goon
5 B " " " Beuruppin
23 F with aircraft crates
25 15 F with aircraft crates Jueterbog/Altes
9 F to It of Finow
2. At 2330 on 21 April, a shipment of 20 T with fuel, 10 empty B and an
undetor in*d number of F with 18 AT guns of about 85mn arrived at 25X1
Frankfurt/Oder from Brest-Litovsk. 4
3. Between 21 Md 29 ru , the following shuttle-trains for transportation 25X1
of grain ware assembled by the 1st Subdistrict Office of the Berlin
railroad district and dispatched empty from Frankfurt/tier to Brest-Litovsks
Date inA,ril B mot O - ~- 25X1
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24
25
60B
60 B
60 B
48 B
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54 B
54 B
55 B
Comment. The shipment was confirmed with the same number of cars
an the same shipment-record number by three other reports. Since the number
of cars was 22 Alt in was the receiving station
zk the shipment
was believed to contain tanks.)
Although the present report indicated that the
shipment consisted of aircraft crates, it is still believed that the
above assumption was correct since shipments consigned to Neuruppin airfield
als had Neiz ppin as receiving station.
2. omm~ The report confirms the beginning of shipments containing
now aircraft, possibly MiG-17, from the USSR by 14 April 1955. The following
shipments have been determined:
Date in April Number of Cars Receiving Station
14 50 axles Jueterbog
25/27 15 F
25 9 F Finow
22/24 19 F Merseburg
21 5 F or 24 F Neuruppin
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Comment. Another renort indinntea that the Inaa nf_+:~ shipment
weighted 780 tons. It isi
thus believed that the shipment contained tanks.
4. Comment. The shipment belongs to a new fuel supply transportation
movement for het aircraft of the Twenty-Fourth Air Arms. The shipment of
AT Runs is the second of its kind which was observed during April 1955?
5. Comment. The shipments belong to the grain shuttle-train movement
which started on 18 April 1955? .
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