Documents / FOIA release
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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# INFORMATION BULLETIN COUNTRY: RUSSIA. SUBJECT: SUPPLEMENT. To No. 2 series of photographs of Port KHERSON ISLAND SERPANT On Page IX. RADAR ON THE SEA. ON A CEMENT BASIS ON WHICH IRON SHORES ARE SUPPORTED, the following explanation be added: One such Radar was seen toward ALZ = 320° from the light of the Island NIKOLAEV (PERVOMAZISKAYA), and at a distance of about a mile. A second similar RADAR was seen at a distance of about 14 miles from the Island NIKOLAEV, computed on the existing channel (gatt), i.e. around the turn northward at the entrance of River BUG for Port NIKOLAEV.
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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.