RAIL FREIGHT TRAFFIC THROUGH FRANKFURT/ODER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007400790006-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 9, 2008
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: June 23, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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C tNTRY East Germasy REPORT
TOPIC
EVALUATION,
P(J-E OBTAINED
DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAINED
REFERENCES
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PAGES ENCLOSURES (NO. & ? YPE)
REMAR
The following shipments which arrived from
observed at Frankfurt/Oder between 6 and 8
DATE PREPARED,
23 Jun. 1955
B..boxcar; F?flatcar; G.'gondola oar; T..tank
The following shipments were observed
station between 6 and 12 Junes
to
or left for Brest Litovsk wets
June 1955,
Date in
June
Number and
Type of Cars
$ast
West
bou
bou
nd or
nd
6
56 G
iron ore west
bou
nd
1
56 G
empty east
bou
nd
53 F
boxes east
bou
nd
7
56 F
boxes east
bou
nd
45 T
undetermined east
bou
nd
2
56 B
undetermined east
bou
nd
56 G
iron ore west
bou
nd
1
56 G
iron ore west
bou
nd
1
8
36 T
empty wes
tbou
nd
2
56 G
iron ore west
bou
nd
1
56 G
iron ore wes
tbou
nd
I
56 B
undetermined west
bou
nd
56 B
undetermined wes
tbou
nd
36 T
undetermined eas
tbou
nd
2
56 G
empty eas
tbou
nd
54 F
undetermined eas
tbou
nd
passing through the Muellrose railroad
E.-express train coach; R-refrigerator oar; RRym-S%r-heavy-dutyyflatcara
7 4 SSy, 2 RRym 8 T-34 tanks direction of direction of
6 50 F 50 new trucks direction of direction of
Cottbus Frankfurt/Oder 3
Date in Number and Load From
June Type of Cars
(I eccIrI(ATtnN BECRE
ankfvrt/0der Cottbus
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Nail Freight Traffic through 7c 't/Odor
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snc
19 MY
presumably
3,9'W54 -ke
7' 10 E new Plane
8
10
11
12
3.
4 F wheel mete
45 B' uranium ore
45 B uranium ore
23 R Now
45 B uranium ore
45 B uranium ore
direction of
Frankfurt/Odor
direction cf
Cottbus
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Brest 7
Brest 7
Brest 6
Brest 7
Brest 7
I
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On 6 June,, a train of 20 six??axle flatcars with canvas-covered tanks which
proceeded from the-direction of Cottbus'in the direction of Jueterbog was
obperved at ltlkenberg railroad station. The train consisted of former German
oars with Polish inscriptions. On 7 June, an empty train'of the same composition
was soon on the siding of Kloster Zinna railroad station. It was presumably the
same trsin.5
4.
5.
to lbr et Zinna on 11 June
a train of 1 converted boxcar-and 19 flatcars
__resents was dispatched fraiFrankfurt/Odor
the following shipments, the load of all of
which exceeded s an ar ments, were dispatched from Frankfurt/Odor
between 10 and 14 June:
Date in umber of
June. 1atcars
10 8
9
1l 9
12 8
3
11 22
14 4
Dispatched to
Templin
Sat skorza
9atzkorn
Altruppin
penigebsueok
oret Zinna
Templin
Aenstrelita
The dates mentioned indicate the arrival-of the
shipments in
c ur er.5
the following shipments, the load of all of
which exceo"d standard measurements, were dispatched from Frankfurt/Odor on
15 and 17'Junes
Date in
June
Number of Cars Dispatched to
15
3
Koenigsbrfeck
3
Templin
17
3
Cottbus
17
Forst Zinn.
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SEMIET
Comment. Probably raw material deliveries to the Eisenhuettenkombinat
Oat Foundry Combine East) at Puerstenberg/Oder.
Comment. Fuel deliveries from East German hydrogenation plants to
the USSR and return of empty tank oars from the USSR?
Comment, Probably motor vehicle export deliveries.
4.
5.
Comment. Possibly only an intra-zonal shipment.
Comment. The data indicate a new wave of T?54 tank shipments. The
shipment listed in paragraph 3 was probably dispatched to orst Zinna and is
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believed to be identical with a shipment 25X1
which was reported previously. a three shipments 25X1
on 11 June listed in paragraphs 2, 4 and 5 are probably i entical.~ 25X1
e two shipments to
xvM p n s e n paragrap s 5 an under the and 15 June respectively
are probably identioal.
6.
Comment. Export deliveries from East German railroad oar factories
oe USSR,
Comment Deliveries from the uranium ore mining
to e USSR. A monthly average of 10,000 tons of urani
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