COASTAL COMMERCIAL NAVIGATION ZONES: SZCZECIN ADMINISTRATION; COAL SHIPMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001100600010-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 7, 2003
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: December 16, 1947
• Content Type: IR

Approved For Release 2003i~ . - 82-00457RO01100600010-6
CONFIDENTIAL
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNT:'' Pol.andfolteh Administered Germany
SUBJECT Coastal Commercial Navigation Zones, Szczecin
Adininistratiot; Coal Shipments
25X1A
ORIGIN
25X1A r V,,
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
DATE 1379/3
25X1 X
ltu:o.
GIST. xcsab r ..947
PA' i-J
ES 2
25X1A
SUPT` i EN
25X1X
25X1X
For purposes of commercial navigation, the Polish coastline has beers
divided into a Western Zone, whist stretches from Swinoujscie (Swizde)
and Saosecin (Stettin) to Kolobrzeg (Kolberg), and an Eastern Zone reach-
ing frog! I4olobrseg to Gdansk (Danzig). Both zones are under the jurisdic-
tion of Adam Rapaeki, Vice-Vinister for Trade and Com ereial Neviiration
in the Polish Government. However, Kwiatkowski, former Minister for
Finanev, is the actual administrator of the two zones.
2? The Western Zone is supervised by Captain Bartosaynaki, rmwber of the
GUM (Glowny Ursad torski), who has also been acting as coin ercial port
commander for Szczecin. As of 2 Onfiober 1947, he was to have received
Domaredski, a Polish civilian formerly in the Gdynia port sdminiatration,
as assistant in charge of Szczecin. Bartossynaki's deputy is Polish
Army Captain Wilimowski,
3. In Septer.?ber 194? Colonel Martinov was the Soviet Commandant for the
city and port of Szczecin. His deputy for commercial navigation was a
Russian civilian named Sidorov. The latter also acted as :mressritativn
of Lenvenc?itrans, a subsidiary of Ryaznii Export in Moscow, for all ship-
ments out of Szczecin for Soviet accounts wi:ether shipped in Russian or
German beats.
Loading and unloading operations in Ssceeein are carried out at five
harbor quays:
five 2-ton cranes )
.. one 5-ton crane, three 2-ton cranes )
All PcI ah operated
Port CentralnZ (Kashubaki) - Polish and Soviet operated. tree 5-ton
cranes and two 2-ton cranes.
5. The part of Szczecin was formally transferred to the Poles on 1r
September 194?, but as of 4 October the Soviets still controlled a
CONFIDENTUL
CLASSIFICATION
Dsuumert No.
25X1
Class. CHANGED TO: TS
No CHANGE in Class.
? DECLASSIFIED
DDA Memo, 4 Apr 77
Auth: DDA REG. 711763
Date; 2 8 P
WJ-wv
REFERENCE CENTER L1kAY
 Approved For Release 200
82-00457R001 100600010-6
1f;'"1'!J.IGi" Cl,: GRG"TP
25X1A /i7yi3
portion of the "Port Centralny". Partly for this reason and rartly because
of the uncooperative attitude of aidorov. thA Pn1.1?1h prevented fror shipping to icorway and Sweden enproxir tely .CSC to-e of
cevent now stored at tho quay. There for r rly were six 5-ton cranes in this harbor section,, but three of their were dismantled about the middle of Sept
ber 1947 and shipped to the USSR, Of the reunaindnr, the Russians have ex-
clusive use of one 5?-'ton and two 2-ton cranes, as well. as +nrinr4+y fry the tom;.
of the 4wwo Polish operated 2-ton cranes.
6, Practically all shipments out of Szczecin consist of coal, coke and briquettes sent
to Sca.:u:inavian ports i'ar i'olish accounts or to the USSR and the Russian Zone
o Germany for Soviet mounts. augast 1947 was the record iaonth for coal
loadings at Szczecin since the ware end; 110,000 tons were shipped for Polish
accounts alone.
7. All coal arriving in Szczecin from the interior by inland waterwmye to shipped
by PZ2.'0 (Polska Zegluga Na Odree), a private shipping corpeny tinder States
trusteeship with headquarters at Wroclaw (Breslau). Rey positions are held
by state appointees paid according to government wage aceles. The company
owns the Odra River barges and all cranes at Szczecin, and is in charge of
all dock labor. Chief of the company's Szczecin office is Kobylinb'ki, who
Is assisted by Captain Puzyna as personnel officer.
8,. Rail shipments of coal and other goods to Saozecin are he.ndled on a oouieiaalm
basis by the firms of Hartwig and Poltrans, two private buying organizations
under government trusteeship, foreign coal buyers' interests, especially
the Swedish State Fuel Commission's, are represented by the "Supervise" Comps,
agent for the Societe Genfirl`le de Surveillance S.A., Geneva. "Supervise" is a
private Polish firm with leadouartera in Gdynia and directed by Lippesyc. The
latter's deputy is Wladiel.aw Rutkowski; narLger of the Svc$ectn bxtnch is Leon
uti liiewaSci . O ifIoia et of the company cheelc all c t.go nS. otipncnt . oxcept the
Sovie 4 ores for quality, cjtv+ntttr *TO condition of vessel, -
All exports f. ors: Szc;zec to ilu, ot'?,er r'ol1ar t)aj c-s nosy 've aporuveu by a Soviet
office in jTS*r- -s ~nw +t-ser sa:a the e.;act,t.ton of the Soviet-Polish Tradca
Treaty and protActe Russian interests.
10,: The Russians use Gdynia c,nd Gdansk for the bulk of their seaborne trade with
Poland,
11, Units of the Soviet fleet visited Szczecin and Swinoujscie on 6 August 1947t
later holding maneuvers in the Stet.tiner Half off the southern shore of
Usedorc Island (N54/L10). Among the vessels was the "Leningrad", yenned by
approximately 1,000 students of the Naval Academies of Leningrad and Xronstadt.
This doaiu.ent can aina infer jatim
aioct_n the nat?.xn,al defei:se a1 the
United States within the ioanin; of
the Uspi jna-e Act, 50, U.S.C. 51 anal
32 as a :se algid. Its t rans.alss_3n or
the revel-,tion of its c,,nLents in any
manner to an unauthorized )croon is
proiiibitod b lay:.
CONFIDENTIAL
Approved For Release 2003/ -RDP82-00457 R001100600010-6