BRIDGE, RAILROAD, ROAD AND PORT CONSTRUCTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000500060011-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 2005
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: April 8, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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on the Metlika - 1arlovao highwa r, was opened to traffic on 2 January 1947
The bridge, 400m in length and 4mm in width, is located on the same site
as the old bridged It was constructed partly froze r~"rage material re-
trieved from the rivera
(,g) Brcko (36028'45'? x 44?53r)s The highway and railroad bridge at Brako was
3 y rsoonstructed by 1 ovenber 1946o The bridge? 800m long and 12m wide,
has a steel superstructure and rests on mine concrete piles LIoaat of the
material used in reconstruction wad asaiva.ged from the old bridge. that was
destroyed during the war? It is a part of the Vinkovol o Breko o Ba aovici.
railroad linso
(h) Sv? Pater (32?45x551" x 46?15%30'11)s The bridge over the Savinjaa river at
. Asa r' Yom' near Ceije is to be. 61m long and 7m wide,, two maters of v~h'.ch
are allocated for sidewalk. It will carry a n;aximum load of 24 tons. Tho
bridge is being oonstruotsd along the pattern of autobahn bridges in t'ar'
maaany and will be part of the LjUbljana 4 plaanina high'vay.
Railroads (rabui`t by Grad is)
(a)) The Laaapovo - Kragujevao Kralje--o - kriatLna. - Skopljo raailrs?oad line which
was psartioularly da aammA in the Ibaa.r valley soct'i o.x during thn war, wsarr
opened to trafx*. n in 1946. In the canyon between Laakt and fleece,
taro large bridges (307% x 43?29$40" and 3?3?12':35" x 4;3?38`11'") and a.
tunnel (38614912" x 43?40'40") near Lakt have all been repaairedo
(b) The Ustipraca - l ooaa, railroad liniz- wags completed for use by October 194661
Thb need for reeonetruction of two bridgais a.loea the Driza river near
Gorzade (31?33'130'" x 43?4o?) and Klopaaoi (30i?37420" x 43?38Q1EV4), which
were destroyed during the war, was wlimins"Jed by ccaastructing; as seven kilo-
meter detour along the went bank of the l3rinaac
a work hag already begun on the Varna - Sofia - Belgrade Zagreb - Ljubljana Trieste
hibhway, Aphis road will be If. wide, will have four lan.s with e. 3?25m barrier in
the center, granite blocice along curves and over bridgea3, and a macadam surfsoe0
5o Construction within the harbor of Sibenik of a mole or "opera tine harbor" called
"Dobrik" as begun in fday 1946. A quay 96rn long to under eonstructi on@ It will
roost on forty-eight 50 ton concrete pile>a suck in the ha.rbore Binoe the Adriatic
is only from 10 to 15m .cheep in the harbor of Sibenik, the special port is being agar,..
structed to aacaosaodate ocean going vessels. Harbor installations have bean fixed
and railroad tracks already laid in the new area. The port will be complete by 1948?
6. An electric power plane near the village of Rosca (36?39?20`4 x 42?40'15'"), south of
,liksic on the Zeta riror,is currently under construction by Gradiso It will furnish
4,50012iH when completed in ear'y 1948. This planet will supplement Montenegro's other
p ror plants at eraue, ')ijelo .k'olje, Danilov Grad, Kolaein, Vusinje and Savxi.k Which
supply only domestic, power.
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* Coordinates where nosdcd are given last of I""aerro rather than Greenwich, except as
d iaated ?
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Approved For Release 2005/05/02 : CIA-RDP82-00457R000500060011-2