DDR SHIPPING MATTERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013000070006-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 13, 2011
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: July 30, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPOR~
CD NO.
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT DDR Shipping Matters
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE
ACQUIRED
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, 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 OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
Directer Moyer P s;. visit to Moscow
Director Meyer, the head of the compensation section (Abteilung Kompensation)
of the Ministry for Foreign and Domestic Trade (Ministerium firer Deutschen
Innen -.und Aussenhandel), was in Moscow recently to receive instructions for
the building of an East German merchant shipping fleets During Director Meyer's
absence from the DDR, all negotiations for purchase of ships by the DDR were
discontinued,
The The construction of a. new vessel at the Warnemuende shipyard
the keel of the first 9,500 ton seagoing, motor ship. Baas 50X1-HUM
been
this
laid
work
laid
n arnemuende., 'According to the five-year plan,, this keel should have
laid Actually, only the first slip for
type o sip has been compete o With great ceremony a strip of steel was
on the slip torepresent the keel of the first motor ships but no further
can:be done on the ship as there is no material available.
3 Seepolizei recruiting
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advertisements were inserted in all East Zone newspapers at the and of
March by the Generaldirektion asking for applicants for employment on
DDR seagoing vessels. The applicants were to report in person at the
offices of the Generaldirektion Schiffahrt,
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b. On the day fixed for applicants to report, the offices of the
Generaldirektian Schiffahrt were taken over by representatives
of the. Seepolizei who took it-upon themselves to conduct the
,all applicants were called up
interviews. At a later date
for service in the Seepolizei.
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