IMPORT-EXPORT SHIPPING

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CIA-RDP82-00046R000400150003-8
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4
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December 27, 2016
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June 24, 2013
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3
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Publication Date: 
October 8, 1954
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REPORT
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/06/24: CIA-RDP82-00046R000400150003-8 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INFORMATION REPORT CONFIDENTIAL SUBJECT DATE OF INFO. PLACE ACQUIRED USSR Import-Export Shipping 50X1 This material contains information affecting the Na- tional Defense of the United States within the mean- ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.(). Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law. REPORT NO. DATE DISTR. NO. OF PAGES REQUIREMENT NO. REFERENCES THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE, THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. (FOR KEY SEE REVERSE) 1. 50X1 50X1 2. 50X1 50X1 Attached is a copy 8 October 19511. 4 50X1 On page 1, paragraph la(l), Leningrad A11-Union Foreign Transport Economic Company should read Leningrad Foreign Transport-Forwarding Office (Leningradskaya vneshryaya transportno-ekspeditorskaya kontora). On page 1, paragraph la(2), Southern All-Union Foreign Transport Fnnnnmic Company should read Southern Foreign Transport-Forwarding Compar.(Yuzhnaya vneshnyaya transportno-ekspeditorskaya lcontora. On page 3, paragraph 8, Main Administration should read chief directorate. On page 3, paragraph 12, Export Khleb should mad Eksportkhleb. CONFIDENTIAL 50X1 STATE ARMY . NAVY 1Af AIR FBI AEC ?'r.rr "'--1,incfon distribution indicated by "X"; Field distribution by "#".) Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/06/24: CIA-RDP82-00046R000400150003-8 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/06/24: CIA-RDP82-00046R000400150003-8 COUNTRY USSR DATE OF INFORMATION PLACE ACQUIRED CONFIDENTIAL SUBJECT Import-Export Shipping 50X1 THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION DATE DISTR. 24 ugu.t 1954 NO. OF PAGES 3 1. The All-Union Foreign Transport Organization (SoyuzVneshTrans) was organized in 1951.by the mere change of the title IranSovTrans to SoyuzVneshTrans. The history of this organization is as follows; a. Sometime in the 1930's three transport companies were organized in the USSR. (1) Leningrad All-Union Foreign Transport Economic Company (Vsesoyuznaya transportno ekonomicheskaya kontora-VTEK), LenVneshTrans, which was responsible for the transporting of trade goods between the USSR and Western Europe. The administration of the company was located in Leningrad. (2) The Southern All-Union Foreign Transport Economic Company (Vsesoyuznaya transportno ekonoml choskaya kontora-VTEK) , YuzhVneshTrans, which was responsible for the transporting of trade goods to and from the USSR via the Black Sea and Balkans. The administration of this company was in Odessa. (3) All-Union Association Iranian Foreign Transport Company (Vsesoyuznoye ob''edineniye-.V/0)0 IranSovTrans, which was responsible for transporting goods between the USSR and Middle Eastern and Far Eastern countries. The administra- tion of this company was in Moscow. All three companies were subordinate to the Transportation Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Trade. 2. Sometime after World War II, LenVneshTrans and YuzhVneshTrans were merged with IranSovTrans which retained its original title. 50X1 the title IranSovTrans was changed -to CONFIDENTIAL Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/06/24: CIA-RDP82-00046R000400150003-8 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/06/24: CIA-RDP82-00046R000400150003-8 CONFIDENTIAL - 2 - 3. 50X1 50X1 50X1 4. 50X1 50X1 50X1 50X1 YuzhVneehTrahs, and IranSovTrans were widely known abroad, they Ithe stock of SoyuzVneshTrans was 100,000 rubles. Each of the three transport companies had a number of field offices which were referred to as "kontora." Thus VTEK LenVneshTrans had the following field offices: Leningrad Riga, Klaypeda, Stettin, Brest ,:Mukaohevo, and F- -1 VTEK?YuzhVneshTrans ha field offices in Odessa. Batumi, and Chop. V/0 117- Irai~vTranshad offices in Vladivostok, Otpor 5 49-38, and probably in some other places. the Brest xonriora o K LenVneshTrans was responsible for reloading and redesignation of incoming freight to the USSR. In order to preserve the secrecy of final destinations of imports, the foreign freight moving via Brest was consigned merely to "Brest Office, VTEK LenVneshTrans." Based on information received from various All-Union Associations which appeared either as purchasers or owners of ilported goods, the incoming freight was redooumented in Brest and consigned to the actual recipients. In order to permit this, it was agreed that prior to the effected shipment, the shipper would inform the Brest Office and the respective All-Union Associa- tion of the kind of freight and the number of freight oars into which the goods were loaded. The All-Union Association, in turn, would then advise the Brest Office of the actual location and the name of the recipient in the USSR in open terms, such as "Moscow - Plant 364." 5. 50X1 a large number o records were maintained, re s er oar numbers and type 50X1 passing freight, 50X1 50X1 6. The Brest Office of VTEK LenVneshTrans had a high frequency (VCh) direct telephone line, Moscow Berlin, manned by MGB personnel. Every night the Brest Office gave a detailed report to Berlin of all cargoes which had passed the Brest station going to Germany during the last 24 hours. Daily detailed dispatcher's reports of the freight passing through Brest both ways were also given via conventional telephone lines to Moscow. 7. The organization of the Brest Office of VTEK LenVneshTrans in 1950 was as follows: Director - Aleksandr Aleksandrovich PANCHENKO; Deputy Director - name unknown; Chief Accountant - BABICHEV, an inhabitant of Brest; Two Accountants - names unknown; Two Senior Transport Inspectors;. Two Transport Inspectors; One Interpreter (Polish, Russian, German); One Secretary; One Stenographer. The Brest Office was located on Komsomol'skaya Ulitsa in Brest where it occupied a small apartment consisting of three rooms. CONFIDENTIAL Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/06/24: CIA-RDP82-00046R000400150003-8 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/06/24: CIA-RDP82-00046R000400150003-8 50X1 9. 50X1 50X1 50X1 50X1 10. 50X1 50X1 50X1 50X1 50X1 50X1 50X1 CONFIDENTIAL _3- A large number of All-Union Associations (Vsesoyuznoye ob"edineniye) used the services of the Brest Office for the import and export of goods. In addition to this, the Brest Office maintained business relations with the Soviet Trade Mission in Berlin, VTEK LenVnesh- Trans in Leningrad, V/0 IranSovTrans in Moscow, and with the TEK Lvov Railway Administration in Brest( , he Main Administration of this railway was in Baranoviohi. During the Korean oonfliot all shipments of materials to North Korea and China were handled by the V/0 IranSovTrans. However, of freight were never disolosed. the railway freight transport rates were cons erably higher force non-declared goods, the shipments to North Korea and China were quite expensive for this organization. o.euDp es and e t to Sov a rme shipment Vosges in Eastern. Europe. the Ministry of ore gn Trade had noth1 o o w these ehipments, Most-probably the shipments are made via purely military Ohannels. Soviet foreign trade in military equipment was probably handled by the Foreign Trade Ministry and shipments were taken care of by V/0 IranSov- Trans. No details available. 1.1. Except for the fact that the stream of goods to North Korea and 50X1 China, care of V/0 ilr,an3ovTrans, increased tremendously during the Korean war, there were tional or procedural ohanizes in 50X1 Soviet foreign trade .2. The USSR Foreign Trade Ministry did not handle reparations Oireotly. 50X1 Of course, the V/0 IranSovTrans field agencies were also responsible for reparation shipments. However, since a large number of All- Union Associations appearing as recipients of reparations goods were actually agencies of the Foreign Trade Ministry, the latter indirectly handled quite a considerable part of such shipments. The All-Union Associations subordinated to the Foreign Trade Ministry known to Source are: Export Khleb, SoyuzrrodEksport, EksportLeH, Dal'InTorg, SoyuzNefteEksport, TekhnoEksport, MashinoImport, PromSyr'elmport, SovEksportFilm, Mezhdunarodnaya.Kniga, TransMashlmport (heavy machinery), Eks ortLes, SoyuzVneshTrans, TekhnoImport, and Soyuz PromEka ort. p It should be borne in mind that the titles of these organizations date bao.k to the 1930's for the.most part when they were organized with the responsibilities indicated by their titles. Singe that time their responsibilities were often changed or expanded, but nevertheless the original titles were retained. Therefore,''it is not at all impossible that many All-Union Associations having the suffix "Export" conduct some import activities and thug in some way participate in the shipment of reparations to the USSR. CONFIDENTIAL Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/06/24: CIA-RDP82-00046R000400150003-8