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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# SECRET SUBJECT: Port of Kherso Information I- ORGANIZATION ( See attached diagram. ) 1- Quay which is being repaired. The outside is almost ready to have cement blocks placed there. They are making an embankment on the inside. 2- Area where the metal ores are unloaded. There were 4 cranes observed there. Two of the four cranes are new and are being assembled. 3- Two 12-ton cranes located here. General commercial merchandise is unloaded here. 4- Shipyard having two sliding boards. A tanker was observed on one of the sliding boards. The tanker was about 10 000 tons. At the quay before the shipyard, another tanker was observed which appeared to be newly built. 5- Area where 18 oil tankers were observed. Their color was aluminum. ## II- ATGATS Two floating cranes were observed in port. They were on iron vessels and were being tugged. The cranes had a DIESEL engine in order to do the lifting.
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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.