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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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/01 : CIA-RDP80T00246A032900450001-7 Z - Shipyard area where 2 tanks were under construction. A small gulf was observed in the above-mentioned area which has a distance of about 400 meters from the entrance of the shipyards to the bank on the opposite side (point b-j). The length is about 700 meters. ## II. FLOATS Two floating cranes were observed at above-mentioned port. They were tagged. One of them worked by steam and the other by means of an electric current coming from the city. A floating tank was observed at point . ## III. AIRFIELDS There is an airfield located about one kilometer from LENIN PARK in the city of above-mentioned port. No activity was observed there. ## IV. MISCELLANEOUS Nothing was observed of the Island of NIKOLAEV and channel due to the
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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.