FOOD STORAGE DEPOT

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CIA-RDP82-00047R000400350008-0
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RIPPUB
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C
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2
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December 23, 2016
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April 22, 2013
Sequence Number: 
8
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Publication Date: 
April 26, 1954
Content Type: 
REPORT
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en1 hIltiLAr Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release .9 50-Yr 2014/11/04 : CIA-RDP82-00047R00040035000 -0 � 50X1 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INFORMATION REPORT COUNTRY USSR 50X1 SUBJECT Food. Storage Depot 50X1 PLACE ACQUIRED DATE ACQUIRE DATE OF THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL OcrENSE Of THE UNITED STATES, iTHIN TOE MEANING of TITLE IS, SECTIONS 703 AND 704, OF THE U.N. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSmISsioN of REVC. LOTION Of ITS CONTENTS TO OR NICE FT ST AN uNAuTNORISED PERSON IS fRONIOITED MY LAN. THE REPRoDucTION Or THIN FORM Is PADNIBATED. NO. OF PAGES 2 NO. OF ENCLS. 50X1 (LISTED BELOW) 50X1 SUPPLEV CNIT TC REPORT 50X1 THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION 1. The Soviet Army food depot at Marshaiiak was located about 10 miles from the Marshansk POW camp on the opposite side of the city from the camp and about one km from the coal mines at Marshansk. 2. The food was stored. in what were called silos which were actually large square holes, lined with concrete, about 30 ft square and dug about 2 1/2 meters into the ground 3. The silo pits were arranged with four in a line on each side of a center roadway and a large roof covered all eight holes. The roof was high enough and the distance between the silos was wide enough to allay truCks to be driven between the holes to unload and load food directly from truck to pit. All four sides of the depot were open. 4. Al]. types of food were stored it these silo pits including grain, vegetables, tomatoes, cucumbers, salted fish from the Volga and meat. When a silo was filled to the top, planks were put over it and it was then covered with a tarpaulin. 5. To get the food out, ladders were used to go down into the pits. POW manpower was used to pass the food up where it was loaded into trucks that had been driven alongside the pit. 6. There was no provision for refrigeration in any of the pits and no special ca was given to the food except for covering over the pits SAT! tAirr:44011 Po* sueitcr & AREA CODES CLASSIFICATION CONFiDENTIAL 50X1 �DISTRIBUTION MR EV Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/11/04: CIA-RDP82-00047R000400350008-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/11/04: CIA-RDP82-00047R000400350008-0 CONFIDENTIAL - 2 - that Were filled. The Soviets depended on cold weather for refrigeration and some of the food vas kept in the Pits indefinitely, particularly in those pits 50X1 717 the filling and unfilling was always off the top half of the pit. the fish frequently spoiled and that the vegetables froze but no o seemed to care about frozen vegetables. They apparently ate them since nothing was ever thrown away although it was obvious on a number of occasions that the food had spoiled in storage. 50X1 50X1 7. Distribution of the food took place each day like clockwork although not always at the same pits. There were often occasions When one truck would come in and unload to be followed by another truck coming in to be loaded from the same pit, taking fresh food off the top. There was no provision to use the food that had been in storage the longest. On the other hand, food in some of 50X1 the pits would not be moved for a long period of time. There was also a connection with the railroad tracks which brought in foods for storage in the 50X1 pits. AU of the food from this depot was for the use of the Soviet Axmy. 8. there were no above-ground silos in Marshansk and all the food at 50X1 this depot was kept in the manner described above. 50X1 9. The food warehouses in the Orsk area were also huge bunkers in the ground which were constructed exactly the same as the silo pits in Marshansk. The same system of collecting and distributing food was followed in the Orsk area. There were more than eight silo pits in Orsk end. - CONFIDENTIAL 50X1 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/11/04: CIA-RDP82-00047R000400350008-0