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BULGARIAN-EAST GERMAN RAIL FREIGHT TRAFFIC DURING DECEMBER 1951
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Collection:
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP80-00810A001300550008-9
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RIPPUB
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S
Document Page Count:
5
Document Creation Date:
December 14, 2016
Document Release Date:
December 20, 2001
Sequence Number:
8
Case Number:
Publication Date:
May 21, 1953
Content Type:
REPORT
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
SUBJECT
Bulgaria/East Germany
Bi ga- clan-East Gen n Rail. freight
Traffic During December 1951
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DATE DISTR. 21 May 1953
NO. OF PAGES 4
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
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Democratic Repu c 9 the following rail shipments were made f cm East Germany to
Bulgaria in December 1951s'
Dispatching Station
Number
Weight
Recoi*l.ng
of - Care _
(tons)
':`:Station
Bad Schandau
Empty railroad cars.
208
Ruse
Bad Sohandau
Used packing material.
1
8.4
Russ
Bad Schandau,
Miscellaneous products.
3
25.8
Ruse
Bad. Schandau
Machinery.
2
14.2
Ruse
Bad Schandau
Ironware.
1
8.6
Ruse
Bad Schandau
Maclxi.nery.
-m
x.5.5
Vid'si
Bad S chandau
Miscellansous products.
31.5
Vidin
Bad Schand'au
Iron wired
))
1.1
Vidin
Bad Schandau
Household goods.
) 6
2.2
Vidin
Bad Schandau
Benzoic acid and aniline dye
3-8
Vidin
Bad Schandau
Bautzen
Used pack-Ing material
Enc?aad"bu err (Hue]sen..
8.c
Vidin
puffer)
3
I4! .5
Ruse
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Dispatching Station
Products Number Weight Receiving
tion
t
a
of Cars tons S
Berlin-Osthafen ~ibrating`inaohnes azi:d
press molding machines.
'2-4
Vidin
Berlin-Rummelsburg High-voltage cables.
121.9
Vidin
Berlin-Rummelsburg Cable fittings.
1
6.7
Vidin
Berlin-RuM melsburg Rubber hosing.
1
6.3
Vidin
Bitterfold Chloride of lime.
17
190.2
Ruse
Chemnitz-Kappel Typewriters.
1
8.1
Vidin
Delitzsch Empty tank cars.
Dessau Equipment for cement
factory .
126.8
Septemvri
Ruse
r,
Dessau Equipment for cement
109.9
Vidin
factory.
Dresden-Altstadt Machines
8.1..
Ruse
Eisenach 75 motorcycles.
15.0
Ruse
Gruenhainichen-
Borstendorf paper Paper.
10
110.2.
Ruse
Hettstedt Eleotroa,ytic copper.
128.8
Ruse
Hettstedt Copper
and Brass Plant Copper bands. .
11.
75.0
Ruse
Le3mbaoh-Kaiser0da
potash Plant Glauber' s salt.
79.x'
Leipzfg-Ernst
8
6
Ruse
Thaelmann Machinery.
Tlagdeburga main Cheiri. als -used to protect
plant 6 -ficbm - aiiiirtals .
station
.
....
Sofia
5 ..
(Wildverbissmittel)
Magdeburg-Buckau Machinery.
8.2
Vidin
Magdeburg-Buckau Machinery.
2
15.1
Kurdzhali
Magdeburg-Suedost Chioramine.
2
16.0:
Rus e
Meissen-Triebischtal Clay wall tiles.,-c cux,..'?11o
7
116.9
Burgas
Meerane Grinding machines.
1
5.0
Piesteritz Foam rubber slabs.
8
16.4
Plovdiv
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Dispatching Station
Piesteritz
Piesteritz
Plauen/Vogtland
Buhl
Volt en/Mark
Torgau
Torgau
Werdau
Woffleben
Wolfen
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Prodacts
Foam rubber slabs.
Foam rubber slabs.
Machines (precision boring
mill).
About 3#550bicycles.
tTnpur3fied potassium
sulfate.
Ufipurified potassium
sulfate.
Unpurified potassium
sulfate.
61 motorcycles.
Calcium bromide.
Plate glass.
Plate glass.
New refrigerator cars.
Empty tank cars.
Undetermined.
Numb'er'
of cars
Weight
(tons)
Receiving
Station
10
63.5
Pleven
4
21.1
Tolbukbin
(formerly Dobrich)
3
16.6
Yambol
1
6.3
Ruse
1
7.6
Ruse
35
88.1
Vidin
Bratislava,
5I+3
Czechoslovakia
72.4
Ruse
231.1
Sofia
8.6
Ruse
2
12.1
Vidin
32
537.8
Bratislava,
Czechoslovakia
10
150.x.
Ruse
55
605.5
Ruse
1
Dimitrovgrad
5.4
Ruse
507
3,,251.2
TOTAL
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Categories of Products
Number
Weight
of Cars
(in tons)
Vehicles and vehicle components.
103
762.7
Plate glass.
42
688.2
Chemical products.
72
809.5
Iron, metal, metalware.
22
356.0
Industrial installations, machines, apparatus.
31
326.4
Stones and earth.
7
116.9
Paper.
10
110.2
14sce1laneo"us goods.
9
81.3
Empty freight cars.
211.
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TOTAL 507 3,251.2
Ruse and Vidin are border crossing railroad stations and transshipment ports on
the Danube River. Shipments consigned to these two towns may therefore have been
forwarded to their final destinatiofLs-bither by rail or ship. The shipments of
potassium sulphate and plate-"glass"ooinsigned to Bratislava, Czechoslovakia were
probably transloaded on- a Danube River ship and forwarded to Bulgaria. The 55
refrigerator cars consigned from Werdau to Ruse were new cars constructed by the
VEB Wagoonbau in Werdau and were presuii.ably-designed for the transportation of fish.
According to other information. theae.refrigerator cars have a carrying capacity of
15 toms each and can be used on axpress trains.' The other shipments of vehicles and
vehicle components Consisted o f encased buffers, produced by the VEB Wagoonbau in
Bautzen; about 3s550-bicycles produced-by"the VEB MIFA Bicycle Plant in Sangerhausen;
75 motorcycles produced by the VEB'MOtorenwerke, formerly the Bayerische 
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