CZECHOSLOVAK ELBE-ODER NAVIGATION COMPANY, HAMBURG

• Document Type: FOIA
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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02891793
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• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: October 4, 2019
• Case Number: F-2018-01373
• Publication Date: October 22, 1953

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECURITY IN
RET
RMATION
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.
COUNTRY
SUBJECT
West Germany/Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovak Elbe-Oder Navigation
Company, Hamburg
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22 October 1953
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
In, June 1953 the following units of Czechoslovak rivercraft
the port of Hamburg:
12 June
14 June
17 June
23 June
28 June
29 June
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steam tug Melnik with barges L 607 and 612;
steam tug Opava with barges 7242 and CPSO 220;
Motor boat Otakarl cOmmandeft-by Captain (Thu)
Vejlupek, former captain of the boat DUklaIl
barges 527, 660, 560, 629, and 641, anchoring at
Hamburg; .
tankers T IV (towing barges 393 and
463), and T VI;
motor boat Itbuse;
steam tug Opava with barges M.T. 74 and T 2;
steam tug Dunaj with barges 527 and 603;
motor boat Pionyr was due. -
arrived at
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the three new motor boats (b)(1)
Sumavd, Tatra, and Sokolov are to be put into operation in the very (b)(3)
near future. They were built in the shipyards of Kresice (N5055) (Krieschwitz)
and Usti nad Lbbem (N51/E44)3 and furnished with Skoda and CKD motors. They will
be used on the Elbe River between Czechoslovakia and Hamburg.
-14r$Onn4;C es.. The inspector of the branch office of the Elbe-Oder Navigation
Camper& (CSPLO) at Hamburg, Alois Koenig, was to be replaced by 15 July 1953 by
(Mu) Klimes� the former captain of the boat Podebrady. At the beginning of July
Klimes Was already present in Habburg.
On 1 July 1953 (Thu) Skala4� a former captain, accompanied by, his family,
arrived at Hanburgi,prdtably to carry out an inspection of the company.
His stay was provisionally scheduled for 10 days.
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5, On 26 Jvie 1953 a secret meeting of representatives Of the Cgechoslovak
Elbe.:Oder Navigation Company and a Hamburg forwarding agency-' took place at
the Czechoilovak Consulate in Hamburg. Czechoslovakia was represented by
the above mentioned Alois Koenig, Pravoslay.Kucera� the executive plenipotentiary
(PrOkurista) of the Hamburg branch of the company, Karel Kvasa, an employee
of ,the export department of the Hamburg branch of the company, and two Officialt
(nu) from Prague, probably from the Ministry of Foreign Trade. The object of the
meeting is'unknown.
6. 0n16 July 1953 German criminal police officials made a search aboard the Czechoslovak
vessel Orel, which at that time VAS anchoring at Hamburg, MolOanbefen, protably
because of the suspicion that the captain, Josef Dvorak, was-about to smuggle goods
from the free port of Hamburg to. the German Federal Republic, ,Dvorak
is known to be engaged in smuggling goods: to CzechoslOvakia and also to the
Federal Republic and to be in relations with (fnu) Houra. Houra, a-Czenhoslovak
emigree living at Hamburg, is known as a large-scale black marketeer. Be was ,
arrested by the German police On 20 May 1953 and kept in prison for several-weeks.�
1. The former captain of the vessel, (fnu) Unger,
Wes not given permission to travel anymore to Western Germany.
2, There is a shipyard of lesser importance at Kresice. It used to belong
to the firm Josef Walter & spa., and has apparently been incotporated into the
Ceske iodenice.�-narodni podnik (Czech Shipyards, National Enterpris0,
3. The CKD Shipyard is apparently meant.--
4. Most probably identical with Bolmmil Skaral who has been reported as
a CSPLO captain and Communist informer.
5. Most probably the forwarding agency Eberhardt Clemens, handling the major
part of the forwarding business for Czechoslovakia.
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6. HoUrals arrest was confirmed by another source. Be had tried to smuggle
major quantities of coffee, tea, cigareites, and nylon stockings to the Federal
Republic with the aid of Franz Walther, a Sudeten German, who serves as a captain
On the CSPLO steam tug Brno
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