FOOD STORAGE DEPOT
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Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP82-00047R000400350008-0
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RIPPUB
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C
Document Page Count:
2
Document Creation Date:
December 23, 2016
Document Release Date:
April 22, 2013
Sequence Number:
8
Case Number:
Publication Date:
April 26, 1954
Content Type:
REPORT
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR 50X1
SUBJECT Food. Storage Depot
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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there were no above-ground silos in Marshansk and all the food at
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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
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