An item reported that in the harbour of Ventspils, Latvia.15 navy trawlers were berthed alongside a pier extending into the harbour near the three Soviet submarines lying there. The trawlers seemed to be identical to the ones serving in the Polish navy at Gdynia, Poland. Further more were another 30 trawlers moored in groups of four on a distance of 200 metres east of the submarines and which were used as minelayers and minesweepers and which resembled the kind of trawlers used by the Kriegsmarine in te Second World War. The trawler guarding the entrance to the Ventspils channel was of the same type. In the comment which was supplied was suggested that the trawlers could be former German ships seized after the war by the Soviet Union while they resembled Polish trawlers. The Soviet Union handed similar trawlers in 1946 over to the Polish navy.
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The report was published on www.archive.org, document number CIA-RDP80-00810A000700260003-3
Source
The report was published on www.archive.org, document number CIA-RDP80-00810A000700260003-3
