RAILROAD EQUIPMENT REMOVED FROM GERMANY TO THE USSR;, CONSTRUCTION OF ELECTRIC RAILWAY IN CHELYABINSK SECTOR

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000700030008-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 2012
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 26, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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SUBJECT
ORIGIN
CONI,OL
U. S. OFFICIALS ONLY
CENT RAIL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
Railroad Equipment Removed from Gem
to the USSR; Construction of Electric
Railway in Chelyabinsk Sector
STATE WAR
X_
NAVY
JUSTICE
')'ST' u l- 1947
PAGES
SUPPLEMENT
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lo Approximately 200 electric locomotives removed from the central Geran
electricildt di thf6
raroa neurnge summer o 19/4 are still at Brest-Litovsk,
awaiting removal to the USSR, They are ultimately to be used in the Chelyabinsk
area, where a standard European gage railroad network is under construction.
Some 1,500 kilometers of track are being laird. Comment:. The 50X1 -HUM
Soviet Government announced on 28 April 194.7 tha s 5O0 II1 e?, of
a new 2,500 mile South Siberian Railway had been completed, On 5 FvSruary
1.947, the Floacow radio announced that the Chelyabinsk Novosibirsk line.
would be electrified this year.)
Of 1,000 German steam locomotives forming the so-called war booty haulage
columns, 350 have failed to return from trips to Brest-Litovsk undertaken
during 194.6.
This document contains information
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United States within the meaning of thi
Espionage Act 50 U.S.C. 31 and 32
as amended, Its transmiss .on or the
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Document Be.
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DDA Memo, 4 Apr 77
Auth: DDA REG.__77J1763
Date:
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