MOVEMENTS OF TANK CARS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006900720007-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 30, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: March 5, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT Movements of Tank Care
CONFIDENTIAL
DATE DISIR, 5 i.i 51
NO. Ol. PAGES 2
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATiON
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The report that 40,000 tons amounts to five. of
c'o th ox" the tank oar e .r a.c .tY of
the East Zone is incorrect. he DDR had a total of 8"400
tank cars on hand for all purposes and o every typee. O.c these, at least 15
to 20% is constantly undergoing repairs. A total of 1,650 cars has been assigned
exclusively to the delivery of chemical products. Seventy,=six cars have been
assigned to the transport of gas. Of the re, -aining on_rs, 2,400 are N cars
(tank cars for the transport of mineral oil),, 900 belong to the reserve supply
of the Deutsche Kr,ftstoff--und 12inera.loel-Zen: tale, and the remainder is rented
or owned by the organizations which require this type cf c-.r for their ;hipents?
part of the reparations deliveries which are continuing regular y,.
4. It cannot be ascertained whether or not tank cars were collected to the extent
reported moving from Seddin to Ploesti Seddin
is a large central collecting point for he East one an is located between
Michendorf, Potsdam, and Berlin. Mere cars are collected for ti he prose of
making up trains of empty cars for new employment. In additions it should be
noted that Seddin is the cost important freight dispatching point in the ?CDR,:
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a meeting took place t tae DDR Ministeriun fuer Liner-
eu sc esi Handel., Aussenhandel and !'.aterialversorgue to discuss 25X1
routine business handled at the transport planning co erences. The riceting
was presided over by aotha.upt, chief of the statistical department of the
Generaldirektion. Also p vesent were Golz and Peters from the ;i ist s
department of transport planning, Weber from the planing department of the
Verkehrsministeriun, managers of several Reichsbalrndirektionen, and several
observers from the Soviet Control Commission.
entire transport plan for petroleum products would have been thrown into con-
fusion; this has not been the case o A small number of tank cars are occasionally
exchanged with eastern countries.
The reported delivery of 40,000 tons of rolling stock to Ploesti
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cannot be eonfirned. For such purposes there are, at the most, .
cars available. If the necessary tank cars had been sent as repo
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tted,
tank
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3. Tho delivery of 250 tank cars to Brest-Litovsk :,s 25X1
This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 13 OctoLer 1978 from the
Director of Central ln:o!f;gence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
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By making full use of this type of transpor tp the Fast 7.one hae the means
cf transporting at least 240,000 tons per month, so that the reported 40,00C
tons are no more than one-sixth of capacity. At the present time., the DD1
Govermpent is using an average of 168 tank caws daily for the shipment of
petroleum products m This amounts to a total of 5 .,0,40 cars per month and a
total volume of 100D000 tons,,
SEIPK\'T~
CONFIDENTIAL
Approved For Release 2003/08/06 : CIA-RDP82-00457R006900720007-4