ALLEGED SABOTAGE IN IMAN OF FREIGHT TRAINS CARRYING MILITARY PLANES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00423R000500630004-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: May 12, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Country: USSR/China
Subject: Alleged Sabotage in Iman of Freight Trains carrying Military Planes
Place Acquired: C?...7
Date of Info: 26 March 53
Source:
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1. "A serious railway accident occurred in the early hours of 26 March 53 at the ra
way station df Iman, Some 320 km. from Vladivostok. Two freight trains, loaded
with heavy military transport planes, were involved in the collision. About 18-2
flat-cars were destroyed or damaged. The planes were two- and four-engine air-
crafts and a few 10-engine heavy transport planes of 1948-50 production. The latt
are now being withdrawn from military use and transferred to heavy industry. The
transport was proceeding towards China when it collided with the second military
transport.
2. "The crash was said to have been caused by sabotage, presumably by Nationalist
Chinese agents."
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