GALATI AND THE LOWER DANUBE RIVER

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 30, 2008
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: July 15, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains Information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the 105pionsge Laws, Title
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COUNTRY Rmania
REPORT
SUBJECT Galati and the Laver Danube Biver DATE DISTR. 15 Jig 1955
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
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1.
and Seouri% Measures: The ship arrived at Salina on
15 Karen 17550 e control o3"es and custom inspection were
condnate*, The procedure lasted for about one hours Two pilots came
aboard #14 the ship departed for Galati assorted by the control boat.
2, Observa osia a o the Danube: The ship anchored for the night at the
y- rs mile and proceeded ire following day,
4e At Beni, 11 loaded and seven empty lighters were seen moored in
groups of three.
be A tugboat, sketched in Figure A of Attachment 1, was seen towing
seven Petroleum lighters in the direction of Galati.
Another tugboat towed a Soviet tanker, sketched
gore o chment 1, downstream, The pilot said the tanker's
.destination was Odessa.
c. There are watchtowers along the Danube beginning at Tulcea. The
last tower seen was 100 meters beyond Galati. The posts were wooden
and the tripod was of an iron structure. A sketch of a watchtower
is provided in Figure C of Attachment 2.
d. Between the sixtieth and seventieth miles, 13 petrolema tanks were
seen. At the seventieth mile there were three white barracks, 0'?
sketched in Figure B of Attachment 2. The barracks were ten meters
long. Five guns were seen as was also an instrument wrapped and
tied in_a hammock like a gun carriage.
e. On the return trip on 21 March, near Reni a Soviet 25X1
tanker, sketched in Figure G of Attachment 1, being towed down-
streaia. The pilot said the. tanker's destination was Odessa.
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3. Galati - Port Facilities Installations and Activit : The ship arrived
at on 19 arc h and moored alongside the pier at the location
indicated in Diagram H of Attachment 3. On this pier there were two
cranes. The name plates on then were in Russian; one said "BRGRAD PARIS"
and the other "G. HOUPLAIN."
a. In the northern portion of the inner harbor there was a dockyard in
which five tugboats, of the type sketched in Figure A of Attachment 1,
were under construction. In this area there were three factories with
brick walls and sheet metal roofs and two new plants under construction.
No machinery was in these new plants as yet; workmen were plastering
the walls inside and out. The location of these new plants is
indicated by the letter K in Diagram M of Attachment 3. In front of
this new construction and fifteen to twenty meters out from the shore,
iron poles were being driven into the bottom fifteen meters apart,
this portion of the harbor will be filled and
used for ship ways or other purposes,
b. There was a large crane, location shown in Diagram H of Attachment 3,
and several smaller ones in its vicinity. Five meters southwest of
the large crane there was a tower, sketched in Figure J of Attachaent12,
on top of which there was a black box and three searchlights,
the lights appeared similar to traffic lights.
4. Naval Vessels, There was a Rumanian river patrol boat at the pier of the
dockyardo s silhouette is drown in Figure L of Diagram H, Attachment 3.
5. Air Activity: No aircraft were seen.
6. Milit Installations: On the southeast point at the entrance to the
harbor there were two antiaircraft guns of 7.5 on. caliber. They had no
gun shields but were in a brick revetment. From five to eight meters
distance from the guns there were two small buildings which appeared to
be buried in the ground. On them there was a blue plate with white letters.
The door to each was on the southwest side. the
buildings might be assinnition magazines or places for storing the guns.
The shape of these buildings and the location of guns and buildings can
be seen in Diagram M of Attachment 3.
7. Numerical Key to Diagram H:
1 - Rumanian River Patrol Boat
2 - Tugboats
3 - Cement warehouse
la - Antiaircraft guns (2)
5 - Harbor of Galati
6 - Row boats
8. Numerical Key to Diagram M:
1 - Factories
2 - New factories
3 - Grain elevator
4 - Turkish ship
7 - Iron poles driven into harbor
bottom
8 - Fill area
9 - Shipyards
10 - Factories
11 - Ship under construction
12 - Grain elevator
5 - Cement w arehouse
6 - Ammunition magazine (for anti-
aircraft guns)
7 - Antiaircraft guns
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