SOVIET TRANSPORTATION AGENCY AT FRANKFURT/ODER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007900750013-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 13, 2010
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: August 24, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

CLASSIFICATION
UNTRY East Germany
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So` iu isportatioi' aitL:y a"~: 'Zta ikfurt/ C
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DATE PREPARED-_
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24 iiu; ilst 195x'
1,, in June 1955.? two Soviet trans ortat on con.t ?o agencies were in 25X1
existence in Fran:cfurt/Oderg nanely the ;-ovictskaya iro i fi Y C': mill a
Uprav-lonye {Soviet Traci ;ortation Control i_,c as .e .s) (scj) av
the Frankfurt rnarshallin, yard., a:nd the soviet ali_road `lr~ ncport 'ti , ?
Office at the Frankfurt/Cder pivoen-nr e-, tat? omt,a it _ ) ;e re thatt ' he
latter office was better infosrmed on beat ._t i ad
ta;.l s rcilc.uc: ~a
no authority of command over t he :;Ku. From teleSihone
th Rus:.ian interpreters attache) to RID :,e li ? info _. ed that a
Soviet transpcrtation office ryas sl::;o in existence there,,'
20 the SKU oa: located on the second. floor of the operations k3 aif_C,a_IF; at
t e Fran :'z urt I, ars'tlallin yard an(+ used thr o o 'f ilce roa Z" ephen
extensions as3igned to the off :ice .,,ere "0.5-11 (com i' n in o icer) g 52 J;
nd 524. The telephone; connections had been e: -.b l .fished by th;! - G Wi
t seal adi:.inistration~.2 The of i'icers o ' the r:'Pict' and their
dependent-, lived in an, restricted area ca soothes teas: e , The i)1'i t to
c-] extension the _ J. i?_lv c'-! o", ` ?1c ofJ
~-~d):"lOiiextension C1'~ the ac.
5,12. :.ail For the agency 1`Ja d Lr wtect th:cot.1f< ',he `.io'v]_~ iG~n t ida .AJ:a
on Push min street in Pr::nkf urt and w s u iw i R c k n to th aisenc:,.`, by
:.ioviet soldiers armed with sumach 110, ". neo s\li letters were
annd receipts had to uo made out for
3:Q Officers attached to the ;:'U included:
Lieutenant Colonel Krasowski,
Lkijcr Kuberkcnr
Captain tatkiewiecz
Snior Lieutenant ~Ovayannikav;"
Fier ,t. a;Tetr
Senior Lieutenant
One clerk and one driver besides four interpreters w ere also assirneC? to the
6:KU.3 The Soviet soldiers of the ? e 1C; ore C' ub~_? .: ].`1;., ins: nia on
teei:i' can an" their left arms with r(" :L ._ bs1o it.
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The 7 '.KU at i r ni:furt/Oder is so:-._e sort ci far:. ,:x .cz agency for li
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military rail shi -Ments to and from the USSR. inco:nin;; trains are broken up
nd the frs:i ;htcars for,aarded individually or in grouts. Trains tte the
U:i R are assembled at i'ranki'urt/Oiler by the :;KU. Records for military
S i :dents are exclu`::ively kept by the co; Hardin, off cor of the :ii Lt bo
by telephone about any inconin shipment :;hich crosses the
Oder bridge.
On the basis CI L' records ke: t in his "flan ollbuch 1955" the
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inuavizuzl cars of ~ n , the incor, in_.; trains are fora:?rded to in?iic .dual
places of destination. 1 'he distri':yation of the cars is entered in a
ss :'ecial book made out for the inters reter:. The p , :es of this hoot: are
numbered -..,nd when all paces are zaritten up the :lock is ta.iicen
in this book the b :ipments are on y ri _rked ..ith index numbers and
s 4ment record numbers. Interpreters are unable to deter_.ine the t; A::t;
of ;ocds involved from these nu.:.bers. If :ohi;;n nt record numbers are
ille;.;ible, the in eru:reters at the >KU in ?:rankfurt,~/Coler call their courter?
part at the soviet transportation control headquarters attached to R-3D
B?arlin. This communication is established over the railroad tole hones sy ter.;
The tele >hone extension cf the soviet :agency in Berlin is e;9/237
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,were asoined to this agenc
It is the :scission of the soviet Railroad Transportation Office at the
?rankfurt/Oiler y as:;en_,cr station to direct shi!,ments arrivin>! from Brest-Lit
to their destinzticn in the (,'::it .the a: ency is also ini'cr:j:ed about all
sh2;unents dispatched from, the malt to the The :,oviet" Railroad
Transportation Office is located on i3a.hr.:.ofstr ass` opposite the [jassen,C,-er
station, One .soviet lieuton:zntlcolonel, one 1nw?or;~ and trio senior lieuten::,nts
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LComment. It i?, bcl eved th.t the JKJ is a military forsward.ing w ency,
.ithin the German military trar_s!;ortation system, such fo.^.'1:ardin agencies
were located at major marshalling yards and had thv: mission of forwarding
indiviuual cars or trou_..s of cars bolo-,% tr;.in strentith. It is quite possible
that the SKU was directly aosi,ned to a central agency in Berlin. The
Soviet Railroad Transportation Headquarters mentioned by source may be
fiela office of the CentrLl Soviet R:i1rr.aa Transportation headquarters
in 3erlin, soviet r:.,ilroc.d transncrt