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Ship Sightings, Port Facilities, and Installations in the Kherson Area

Central Intelligence Agency · 2010-07-01 · 57 pages · text by OCR

This Central Intelligence Agency information report, distributed 5 March 1957 and approved for release in sanitized form on 1 July 2010, collects twelve attachments on the Soviet port of Kherson in the Ukrainian SSR. The attachments hold sketches, photographs and observations of cranes, wharf repairs, shipyards building tankers, fuel tanks, a radar station on Nikolayev Island and a nearby airfield. They also report Kherson-built fishing boats with HIGH SIEVE type radar seen at Djibouti on their way to Vladivostok. The report has nothing to do with UFOs.

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“Sea”4 pages

  • p. 1 …been built on concrete foundations in the sea near the entrance to the channel leading to…
  • p. 30 …RADAR ON THE SEA. ON A CEMENT BASIS ON WHICH IRON SHORES ARE SUPPORTED, the following…
  • p. 34 …this is East 25X1 of the area used for sea bathing. -
  • p. 39 …These were ready to be launched into the sea. 25X1 ## II. MEANS OF NAVIGATION. Three floating…
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/01 : CIA-RDP80T00246A032900450001-7

7. Three pages of information on port facilities at Kherson and installations at Fort Nikolayev, with a sketch of Kherson and Nikolayev Island;

8. Two-page report on port facilities at Kherson and a radar station on Nikolayev Island.

9. Two-page report on construction work in the port of Kherson and a radar station on Nikolayev Island.

10. Two pages of information which duplicates in large part Attachment No.4 above;

11. Two pages of information on port facilities at Kherson, including a sketch of the port. 25X1

12. Two-page report on port facilities at Kherson, with a sketch of the port. 25X1

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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 57 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.