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: Soviet Union SUBJECT: I. Shipyards at Port KHERSON II. Battleships sighted in Port KHERSON III. Recently built Soviet fishing boats, sighted in Port TZIBOUTI 25X1 ## I. SHIPYARDS AT PORT KHERSON The shipyards of the port have two slipways and build only 7.000-ton tankers which are equipped with Diesel engines. the shipyards 25X1 have been ordered to launch one tanker every 3 months. - ## II. BATTLESHIPS SIGHTED IN PORT KHERSON a) A three-mast training vessel of the Navy, left the port bound for Odessa. Many sailors were sighted on it.- b) a cruiser, rather of the STALINGRAD (EX.DUCA D'AOSTA) type, was coming from Nikolaev. Later on, the same cruiser was sighted anchored outside of Port Odessa. - III. RECENTLY BUILT SOVIET FISHING BOATS, SIGHTED IN PORT TZIBOUTI Two Soviet fishing boats of approx. 700 tons in capacity, were sighted in Port TZIBOUTI.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 57 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.