PORT OF TSINGTAO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A009800470001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 21, 2009
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 17, 1960
• Content Type: REPORT

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At the mi.ez car was loaded on the ]freighter,
E using her own winches.. After a portion of the cargo was loaded,
the ship left her berth in the Great Harbor and -A In thp Inner Harb
The nett day she was berthed at the adjacent pier 7
where the rtnder of the cargo was loaded. the depth at the
original berthing was about 28 feet at low tide. the de th at the
second berthing was greater.
Cargo Ladling operations in the rt of Tsingtao were ve o .
no cranes in the vicinity. a flouting craze used to place smaller
mobile cranes on the deck of another vessel (unidentified).
lin the Inner Harbor just outside the entrance
to the Great Harbor when, at about 0630, the ship was boarded by customs
officials, medical inspectors, and guards. The ship's crew was mustered on
deck and the vessel searched by several parties of two or three men each.
Instruments were not used and searchers appeared to be looking for bombs as
they did not search small places such as small drawers of desks. After the
search, two guards remained wooard until the ship tied up at the >ier. There-
after the guards remained at the foot of the gangway.~
NOFORN NO DISSEM ABROAD
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