REFRIGERATOR TRAINS FROM THE USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006400840005-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 8, 2003
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: December 19, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 25X1 REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT Refrigerator Trains from
the USSR
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19 December 1950
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a. Effective 20 September 1950, refrigerator trains of 140 refrigerator
cars each a.ll operate between Brest Litovsk and the Berlin Central
Stockyard. In Berlin the goods will be reloaded on boxcars which
will be assembled in special trains for dispatch to Cottbus Dresden,
Leipzig - Chemnitz, Dessau - Halle - 1rfurt, and Brandenburg - iiagde..
burg. These trains arc to run on spacial schedules. After being
cleaned, the refrigerator cars will be sent the d% after arrival via
Lichtenberg, to the Stalin Alice railroad station from where they
will be returned to Brest Litovsk via 'Pranlcfurt/Oder. These ship-
r:onts are of special is?roortance and are riven priority over all freight
and passenger trains with the exception of express and workers I trains.
the Cottbus re-ional railroad headquarters must
provide rans o ing facilities at the Cottbus railroad station for
fish arriving; daily in a refrigerator train of 40 cars via Guben.
After being unloaded the Soviet refrigerator train will be inspected,
cleaned and then returned on the same day via 'rankfurt/Odor. The
goods transloaded will be further dispatched according to special
schedules in the direction of Dresden, Halls, Erfurt,, 'A'agdeburg and
Berlin. Preparations for the execution of this order. will be taken
irsetediateiy since the aoviet refrigerator train is expected to start
operating as early as 24 Septerraber 1950.
2. Three refrigerator.. trains mentioned in paragraph lb above had arrived in
Cottbus by 3 October 1950. One each such train arrived there daily during
the period from 5 to 16 October 1950.
since the beginning; of Gctober 1950.
3. Neat trains from the U.C,S.R. have arrived at the Berlin Central Stock,
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