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.
“Red River”1 page
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## I. ORGANIZATION The shipyards of the harbor in question have two sliding boards. These, build only tankers of 7,000 tons in capacity. the shipyards are expected to launch one tanker every three months. The tankers built there are equipped with Diesel engines. ## II. WAR VESSELS The training ship in question bore the flag of the Navy, a sketch of which we give herebelow. Many sailors were sighted on it.
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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.