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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R009100080002-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 26, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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by the RBD (railroadd''stric headquarters) Berli.r for the
International Youth Festival in Berlin during the period
from 31 July to 22 August was examined. It stated that the
RBD was to furnish. 32 locomotives'on 31 July, 24 on 1 August,
25 on 2 August 26 on 3 August2 44-on 4 August 36 on 5
August, 28 on 9 August, 27 on ! August, 41 on 6 August, 5 on
9 August, 59 on 10 August, 57 on 11 August, 25 on 12 August,
R 8 on 13 August, 74 on 14 August, 58 on 15 August, 53 on
l August, 30 on 17 August, 26 on 18 August, 27 on 19 August,
76 on 20 August, 60.on 21 August and 32 on 22 August. (1)
2. A laborer employed at the Dresden-Neustadt freight yard
stated that boxcars have been equipped with benches, sliding
windows and toilets at the Dresden-Neustadt Gueterwerkstaetten
(freight shops) (sic) since mid-June 1951, with the personnel
there wor$ing in three shifts. The workers employed on this
project were billeted on the shop premises which was guarded
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special German railroad personnel. By 21 June 1951, 182
boxcars were finished in the prescribed manner for the
purpose of carrying passengers. The doors of the cars were
enlettered "WF 4-Magdeburg" or "WF 3-Greifswald". On 27 June
1951 a Soviet 76-axle train composed of grey freight cars
arrived at the shop to be provided with interior equipment
and subsequently left for Senftenberg. Another Soviet freight
train of 82 axles arrived on the same day, was equipped in
the same way and left on 28 June 1951 toward Senftenberg,
carrying 800 unarmed soldiers wearing red-bordered black
epaulets. (2)
3. The superintendent of an Einsatzhof (motor pool especially
set up for the 1951 Youth?Fvsrt1vaij -irr Basdorf stated that
there were plans providing for transportation to Berlin of
spectators in addition to the participants in the International
Youth Festival. According to his superior office, it is
planned, that in addition to the two million participants in
the festival from 1.5 to 2 million spectators or even more
would be rotated to Berlin during the period from 5 to
19 August 1951. (3)
4. The attendants from West Germany were scheduled to ride in
26 special trains which were to be dispatched from the
following railroad stations:
Plauen
Eisfold
Schoenberg
Oelsnitz
Oebisfelde
Boizenburg
Zwickau
Oschersieben
Rostock
Eisenach
Eisleben
Wismar
Nordhausen
Salzwedel
Perleberg.
5. An original report by the Land Saxony Ministry of Industry
and Traffic on the employment of buses and trucks for the
International Youth Festival was obtained. It stated that
Land Saxony has a total of 518 serviceable buses, of which
170 had to be furnished for hauling people to the International
Youth Festival and another 48 were required by the Directorate
General of Motor Transportation and Roads for special
employment. The report furthermore stated that about 55,000
Saxons would make the round trip to Berlin on 1,455 trucks
from Land Saxony, 85 trucks from Land Thuringia, 255 trucks
from Land Saxony-Anhalt and 85 trucks from Land Brandenburg.
In addition, Land Saxony was to keep 700 trucks suitable for
transportation of passengers available as a reserve. Land
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Saxony was to furnish 2 155 trucks, or a total of 2 170
trucks as indicated in the report. Youtbsfrom West Germany
were to be assembled in the Plauen-Gutenfuerst area and
transported by truck to Plauen for further transportation
to Berlin by rail. The report emphasizes the shortage of
tires and fuel. (4)
6. Three original timetables and one operations table for
locomotives were obtained at the RBD Berlin. (5)
(1) Information on the organization of the International Youth
Festival was transmitted previously. See . 25X1A
(2) The boxcars equipped in the major repair shop and marked
WF (Weltjugend Festspiele) (World Youth Festival) will be
employed for the transportation of youths to Berlin.
Subsequent employment of these cars for the transportation
or troops is a distinct possibility,
(3) The figures are believed to have been grossly exaggerated.
(4) For excerpt from the original report, see Annex 1. Data an
importing tires were reported previously.
(5) For original timetables No 1, 3 and 6 and an operations
table for locomotives, see Annexes 2 through 5.
saes; one excerpt of a report on the
motor transport situation in German,
three original timetables and
one original operations table for locomotives.
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