GASOLINE SHIPMENTS TO ISMAIL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011900230009-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 21, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPOR
CD NO.
COUNTRY Austria/Rumania/USSR
SUBJECT Gasoline ' Shipment r Ismail
INFO.
PLACE
ACQUIRED
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES. WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 10, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION-OP THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
by Hungarian vessels., Most of the Hungarian MESZH`ART oil tankers are unloaded."
at Hungarian Danube ports and do not proceed as far as the USA.
CLASS IFICAT I0 1'SECRET/CON1ROL U.S. c'FICIALS ONLY
DATE DISTR.
NO. OF PAGES
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO,
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATE.tj'-E_'4.FQRMATI0N
2. Shipment is carried out principally by the Soviet DDSG ships and very seldom.
3. The DDSG has the following ships. in regular 'use
VLADIVOSTOK 2 stacks, 1200 hp* steam powered. Towing capacity:.
6 or 7 barges (4000 tons).
_.J 0NSTADT Sister ship of theVLADIVOSTOK.
IaMAIL 1000 hp motor boat. Towing capacity: 1600 tons.
SARATOV Sister ship of the ISMAIL.
SAKOV Motor tugs 700 hp. Towing capacity; 500 tons.
LENINGRAD Motor tug. Towing.eapaeity: 700 railroad cars.
4. The following MESZHAHT ships are used, for oil transports;
HALADAS
BEKE
As far as could be ascertained gasoline is shipped to Israil from Via
only and not directly from Hungary; Hungarian petroleum is sent first to
the cracking -plant near Vienna.
2 stacks steam powered. Towing eapaeity: 800
railroad cars.
1 stack:, steam powered. Towing capacity 500.?.raiiroad
cars.
IPS (sic) / Sister ship of the
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On their return journey,, these tugs tow barges loaded with crude oil or iron
ore. In. practice, the tugs band over their gasoline barges in Braila harbor
and take over other barges already filled with crude oil from the Rumanian
oilfields. This crude oil is then taken to Vienna for cracking. The iron
ore is transported to Bratislava.
The average time for a round trip Vienna - Ismail-Vienna is 35 to 4+0 days.
Thus, each tug can do 8 or 9 trips annually. There are 28 gasoline storage
tanks at Ismail of an undetermined capacity.
barbor which is sealed off and guarded by Soviet military ntries. in )UAl-HUNT
this section of the harbor a very large number of Rungarian, Czechoslovak ,,.
Rumanian, Bulgarian and Yugoslav ships were observed. They were all in running
order and appeared to be a reserve held for unknown purposes.
8.
the following ships were sent from Vienna to this special
enclosure at Ismail.;
KAUKASUS Express tug
JR:S (IWRsr?) 750 hp motor tug
SCAISON (sic) Tanker - motor tug 950 hp, has a loading capacity
of 750 tons and a towing capacity of 1200 tons;
PISZTRIVICS
Passenger ships, formerly employed on the Vienna.
Lobau run. Capacity:. 80 passengers.
LATA Single stack steam tug, 55 hp.
Tanker barges
Two pontoon cranes 54+0 kilogram lifting capacity.
Three boiler cranes.
One dredger.
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