RAIL FREIGHT TRAFFIC THROUGH FRANKFURT/ODER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007800410004-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 7, 2008
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: August 4, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC Boil EMUFM T" Me through
EVALUATION
DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAINED
REFERENCES
PAGES 2
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EN=SURES ENO. & TYPE)
The following shipments were observed passing Frankfurt/Ode"
B - boxcar
F/ S- flatcar with sideracks
G - gondola car
Date in Number and
July Type of Cars Load
25 3 express trains
16 B air force personnel Brest-Litovsk
10 F/S trucks
10 B undetermined
45 G ore
54 B undetermined undetermined
56 B
crates
1 train 25 tanks covered
direction of
Cottbus
undetermined 2
1 train 25 aircraft in Brest-Litovsk Merseburg 3
26 56G
z.
40 B
14 B
with tarpaulins
ore
ammunition
1 train 46 3-ton trucks
56 B and F/S empty
2 express trains
11 B air force personnel Brest-Litovsk
8 F/S l2 ,
rz- crates
Cottbus T
Ziltendorf 2
Frankfurt/Oder 5
n. 6
direction of
Cottbus
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DATE PREPARED
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1. Comment. Continued shipments of air force ground units from the 25X1
USSR. Both shipments are probably identical with shipments dispatched
on the same days, in spite of the different number of railroad cars
o far, five 25X1
such shipments were observed on 5, q, 12,2t' and 26 July. According
to return of emntt trains to the east a toal f 1 shipments may be
expected. 25X1
2. Comment. Shipments of raw materials consigned to Eisenhuetten-Kombinat
Ost Iron F
d
oun
ry Combine East) at Fuerstenberg/Oder.
Comment. This shipment is possibly' iden+i nai VI.i +', 25X1
--r, v.,iiv.a ~l? ~u~ ~acuG a wnlcn was previously re:
Comment. This shipment of tanks is possibly identical with a
shipment, consisting of 2 converted boxcars and 22 heavy-duty flatcars
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with load exceedi standard measurements dis atched to Zeithain on
25 July.
5? I, [Comment. The receiving Soviet ammunition depot could not be
identified because no information has been received on the place of
destination. Frankfurt/Oder only served as forwarding station. The
remaining 1q. boxcars are used as crash cars for the ammunition shipment.
6. Comment. Incoming shipments within the framework of the current-
motor vehicle exchange program. Frankfurt/Oder certainly served as
forwarding station
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