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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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COUNTRY: Soviet Union. - A 7 T ++3 SUBJECT: K he r s o n. - 25X1 I. ORGANIZATION (See Attached Drawing) 1. Three electric cranes of approx. five tons in hoisting power. These move on iron tracks.- la. A crane being assembled near the electric power plant. 2. A railroad track. - 2a. Three railroad tracks being on the outside of the stone-wall (2b) that surrounds this area of the harbor.- 3. Two warehouses. Each was about one hundred and twenty meters long and about four meters tall.- 4. A shipyard with three sliding boards. A 10-12,000 tons tanker was launched from this shipyard Two ships similar to the above tanker, were under construction on two of the sliding boards (a-b).- 5. Eighteen fuel tanks. In addition to these tanks, another, brand new tank was sighted (point c) painted in minium.- ## II. MEANS OF NAVIGATION The following means of navigation were sighted in the harbor: Six (6) floating cranes, two of which were near the bridge (point 7),
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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.