EQUIPMENT OF EAST GERMAN NAVY WITH SOVIET-BUILT DESTROYERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A038100570001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 25, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

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This material contains information ing the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18. U.S.C. Seas. 793 and 794 the
COUNTRY
DATE OF.
INFO.
PLACE
f ACQUIRED ,
East Germany/USSR/"Poland
Equipment of East German Navy
with Sovtat-built Destroyers
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
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REQUIREMENT'
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OURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
Two new.Soviet-built light destroyers were delivered to the East German
training course in Kaliningrad
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Navy The dest ro were constructed at a Ks .in ngrad
(Koenigsberg shipyard East Ger ian naval officers eharac 25X1
terize the two craft as being extraordinarily fast and posessi
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fire power.1
Soviet training complements of between eight to ten men commanded by
a Kapitaenleutnant Ubramov (or Abramov) are stationed on the d)troyers.
The German officers on the destroyers allegedly completed a two-year
.
Comment: The destroyers are not listed in WeLer 1 tten-
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LIGHT DESTROYER i-61 BUILT FOR GERMANY BY USSR.
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