PORT OF GDANSK: LAYOUT OF DOCKS BETWEEN THE NEW PORT (NOWY PORT) AND OSTROWICA.

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 270
• Publication Date: July 9, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Port of Gdansk: Layout of Docks Between the
Port (Nowy Port) and Ostrowica.
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report covers the dock area between Nowy Port (The New Port) and Oetrovica
(formerly known as Holm).
CAvailable at the CIA Map Library is a eketoh map prepared by 60=Mti:Or.
The Docks Between the New Port and Ost:owica, Tort of udansk, as of J1me
M" This map is drawn to an approximate scale of 1:100 maters, tofMteh
the other maps of this series. The numbers in the body of the report retar
to the numbers on the map legend. To borrow map call code 11:3, ext.'2596? Mm
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Legend: The Port of Gdansk Docks Between the New Port and 0atrowica
(former Holm .
"I. "PQRTCWA" Restaurant
2. Small wooden pier for internal communication in the port
3. Two grain elevators now used by the Herb Center
4. Warehouses with cement, packing sacks etc.
5. Dock
6. Repair sheds
7. House of Culture
8. Administrative Hq of the CPN
9. Hotel for Harbor medical personnel
10. Direction to Letniszcze
11. Direction to Wrzeszcz
12. Post Office
13. Customs' station
14. Grain elevators
15. CPN installations for oil unloading
16. Railway station
17. Outskirts of the New Port
Symbols indicate the roads, railways, fences, marshes and damaged docke."7
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2. At the southern tip of the CPN Centrala Produktow Hafto ch-Center of
Oil Products) in the New i'ort, on a sma square, sa TUTFm- Restaurant
(No.l). This is a well known haunt of prostitutes, who ex-cract information
from foreign sailors. some Polish seamen, agents of the UB, frequent the
restaurant for the same purpose. AltLough prostitution is officiary pro-
hil- ted, the- Harbor Medical Officer- has-the -du1 y of keeping health records
on these-girls. Thiu--proves?-that prostitution is indirectly legalized by
the authorities.
3. "A little farther south is a small wooden pier (No.2). Pram one side a
ferry leaves towards the interior of the port; from the other 2idW.4K
boat leaMs? towards :;isboujscie village.
4. "Farther south are two grain elevators (No.3). One was destroyed duriQg
World Wax-1-1 and is now being restored. Both are used for storage by trig
Herb Center (Centrals i:ielarska). Still farther south are warehouses with
cement (No.4), packing sacke etc. These buildings are very dilapidated.
Generally, the whole dock (No-5) from the elevators (No.3) down to the
?ost Office (No.12) is in bad condition and partly damaged.. Behind the
warehouses (No.4) is a railway station (No.16) which is now without real
importance; it stands within the harbor enclosures.
5. "Opposite the CPN to the south, stands the Harbor Post Office (No.12)
wh&Ve all 1,arcels coming from. abroad are unloaded., .. Nearby i6 e,-ritstam-s
station_(No.13).
6. gra.tn elevators (,No.l1), where.wheat..from China is unaradcd.
7. "I3etWgc i..the-aleva:trans. and the ;oat. Ufeiae is a smalL waodras: pier. vb re
the. forty boat stops.
`''.tit 'YTJo.15)'is .the C'jN- pier for unldadtng-,oil'. This pier i-s'..cou ec, d:
by a pipeline with the. `other- side of, the canal (-the CPN stare) near.
P1 .W L. Tdmber.':.I cbor
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harbnr enclosuremfQmeLA.."i:Y4r_'r-4''?or Sa small gap -x;ar tine ciT7
elevators
(ITO.3),,' it. suns .without interruption?up to the CPN in the New 7Z. %-.. 28?
in. -nhe .: t-totz? of Nowy Yor.t / .
10. In the background, behind the fence, are following buildings: 25X1X
25X1X a. Behind the restatirant'(No.1) 'stand some repair sheds '(No:6)
b. Farther,, on the seme side of the,street going from. the CPN along
the southern outskirts of the New Port 41o.17), is a House of
Cloture-i)om. Kultury- (marked on the sketch only with an arrow
and (No.7). This House of Culture has the largest hall on the
entire-,olich coast. It contains club-rooms, canteens etc.
C.. still farther along the muse street (also marked only with. an
arrow and (1No.8), stands the building of the administrative
hertdcntarterz of the MV, also the CPN surface stores.
d,. 4e6 of that point (No.8) is marshy land which the Germans
called seer lee. From that marsh a stream flows out and
becomes--a. canal, which enters the harbor canal between the
restaurant (No.l't-and -the elevators (No.3). It is at this
point that the line of the fence from the Post Office to the
CPN has a breach.
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e. A little to the south of the station (No.16), Snie Zna Street
runs towards northwest. In this street?there is a hotel [hostelf 7
for, the personnel of the Harbor I+iedical Office, nurses etc. It
consists. of two buildings connected by a garage'(No;9)
11. "An.arrofw (.No.10) shows the direction to the village of Letniszcze;
another arrow .(1To.ll)'.shows the direction to Wrzeozcz. Along the road,.
after'passing Letniszcze, on the northern side, are barracks for army
troops and.tiervice to Poland-units'.
12. "Beyond letniozeze, a railway line runs towards north-west, leading
from the New Fort and the'Free Customs Zone-to the city of Gdausk."
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3. .;o pan elevators -.now used 'by Herb Herb Cent? r
4. 4iraa-e!1ouse$ ':ith cement, nac'?cinr sacks etc.
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6. Repair sheds
7. Iei,se o:? Culture
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10. Direction to Lr~:=ISZCZE
II. Direction to .;_ESZCZ
12. Post Office
13. Customs' station
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14. Gu.,,=iin elevators
].5. CPT, ins l--7:llatione: ion oil e :loadir;
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