APPROVAL OF SHIP CONSTRUCTION BLUEPRINTS/INACCURATE HYDROGRAPHIC CHARTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500530083-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 83
• Publication Date: June 14, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Approval of Ship Construction Blueprints/Inaccti.rate
Hydrograpbic Chests
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DATE DISTR. / Jun 1954
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1. "The blueprints of the Polish ship construction bureaus were formerly
approved by Lloyd's in London. However, since 1949 (not sure of date),
when Poland broke with Lloyd's, all ship building has been subjected to
Soviet control. The blueprints are now approved by the office of Morski
Rejestr Statkow in Konopnicka Street, Wrzeezcz. All the employees of this
office are Soviets: Your or five technicians or experts, and one
secretary. They do not even make an attempt to check on the drawings or
to examige them properly. They give their approval on the spot while the
messenger of the construction bzureau waits (na poczekaniu).
2. ""_'his Soviet office is subordinated to Moscow directly. There is also a
Poiski Rejestr Statkc, which is subordinated to the Centrainy Zarzad
Przemyslu Okretowego, but neither is of any importance and both have to get
their business approved by the above Moreki Rejestr Statkow.
3- "The maps of the Polish coast and of the coastal region of the Baltic (we
saw no others) at present J9527 printed in Foland are not correct and do
not correspond to the terrain. As members of the yachting cl?+sb Budowlany
at Gdansk, we were allowed the use of a map of the Vistula Bay (Zalew
Wiel.aay). The map was published by the Polski Institut Sydrologiczy I
Moraki in 1953. Neverthe3mea, it did not correspond to the real state of
"t-he river: c~hangeswhich had occurred several years before printing were
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