ACTIVITIES AT GERMAN BALTIC PORTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001100260001-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 20, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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TRY Ge ny (Russian Zone)/Poland
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GP
% TELI!GENCE REPORT
SUBJECT Activities at German Baltic Ports
WAR NAVY JUSTICE
DISTRIBUTION
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2. The breakwater at Sassnitz has been damaged. Repairs have been started but
iok is progressing very slowly.
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height motor torpedo boats
h.nel~boote) of Germ n construction and twelve minesweepers of a smaller
c were observed in the harbor
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vessels bound for Sassnits (P-87) and other ports on Rtigen Island must
. at Stralsund for clearance before proceeding to their port of destination.
former German M-boats wer stationed at Sassnitz 50X1-HUM
They were manned by Soviet personnel and proceeded to
A. The harbor of Sessnits is barricaded off and the Sixth Russian Minesweeper
Division was reported to be stationed there This -50X1-HUM--T`
d-vision was equipped with six minesweepers of the latest German type. These
vessels, armed with one 105 mm gun each, displaced 600 tons. (
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York has been carried out on the salvaging of the SS "Pamburg", sunk just
Fide the harbor, but salvage equipment has recently arrived in Sassnitz.
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oviet warships were seen in Stralsund, but a few craft belonging to the
or police patrol the fairway leading to the port. Some repairs have been
ied out in the dockyard, but these have taken a long time because of the
of material and the shortage of skilled laborers. The shipbuilding yard
tralsund is now building both fishing craft and small naval units for the
cans.
the Sr, "Colburg" received orders to load
large tanks about 20 ft. by 10 ft. and to delis-er them alongside the
aged SS "Berlin", which was anchored In Swinemvnde roads. The "Berlin"
still drawing too much water to enter SwinemInde harbor. The tanks were
n on board the "Berlin" and filled with some type of acid to clean the
e and implements salvaged out of the engine room.
R%Igendainm (causeway) was to be opened for use
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9. Polish aut!-oritf es hewn to di-sr :ntle cranes 50X1-HUM
or the portsides of Stettin ti'arbor and transported t'-.Cr by sea to Polrnd. f
10. lit the I'entunr:erft T'ortock two net' slipwra s were tm der 50X1 -HUM
construction io"e of t?--e materials to be used were 50X1-HUM
those rero'ed fror the Blot and 'Joss works at 1'.r.rrurg.
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