SOVIET MUNITION TRANSPORT TO CONSTANTA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R016100320008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 2010
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 30, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
50X1-HUM
CD NO.
COUNTRY
Rumania DATE DISTR.
30 January 1953
SUBJECT
Soviet Munition Transport to Constanta NO, OF PAGES
1
DATE OF
NO. OF ENCLS.
INFO.
PLACE
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT T
O
ACQUIRED
REPORT NO.
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATI.ONAL 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
ARJUNJ was unloaded by Soviet workers specially brought by the SS
ISMAIL. The area near the ship was forbidden to civilian personnel.
2. The workers engaged in discharging the cargo wore gas masks.
3. The cargo was transported to a train at Constanta-Port from which it
departed in the direction of Bucharest. The train
was declared (sic) as a munitions transport.
4. Although the normal complement of military personnel accompanying
munitions or military trains in Rumania has been from 16 to 20 men,
this train was convoyed by 32 to 40 men each of whom wore gas masks.
at Dock No. 12 at Constanta, the Soviet cargo ship
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