SOVIET SHIPPING IN CONSTANTA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004600310010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 4, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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Approved For Rel&W9'1~8~-00457kTOU~'I
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT Soviet Shipping in Cons4ONFIDENTIAL
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DATE OF
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DATE DISTR. 4 APR 50
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The following Soviet patrol boats were in the port of Constaxita3
a. On I8 February 1950 at 1445 hours, IToo 765 arrived from an apparently
routine patrol.
b. On 20 February, at 1630 hours, three other Soviet patrol boats entered
fran a routine patrol. They cmno in a type of file formation, 1To. 766
in the lead, a boat without any number in the middle, and Vo. 499
bringing up -the roar. Each boat was armed with one 50 uo caliber
machine gun. The leading patrol boat began to signal by semaphore to
the Russian Signaling Station, the fcrmer Cuibul Regineia
c. These patrol boats tied up in the former yacht basin, near the boat
hangar. All were painted battleship--tray. Attached hereto is a sketch
of *e flags and pennants hoisted by these boats.
Soviet tannmrs wore entering and leaving Conetanta at the rate of one every
tvienty-four hours. They. enter in the afternoonn,.0load oi,l all night and sail
out the next morning. All the tan1Zo rs are good-sized. The following Soviet
tankers were observed by sourcor
a. LTS JOSIF STALIN, formerly the URAL, 7745 gross tons, 3987 not tows, twin
screw, built in 1932 at l'ioolaev, Length 445 feet. This tankor cirLe in
on 19 February, at 1115 hours, and sailed fully loaded on 20 February,
at 0700 hours.
b. Another unidentified Soviet tanker sailed early in the morning of 19
February, fully-loaded.
c, In addition the tankers listed above, two Russian liberty ships were
observed bunkering in the oil basin. The first arrived early on the
morning of 18 February, took on oil and sailed on the same day. This ship
was unidentified. The second liberty ship, the I(S.-ST1LTS PODOLSK, arrived
around noon on 20 February and inmediatoly coraaenced bunkering.
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