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From the source: Release of 2026-06-12 Incident: December, 1973, USSR. This CIA Intelligence Information Report from December 1973 provides information on the Soviet Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range, including details about its facilities, weapons systems (System-75 SA-2 and System-300/Aldan warheads), rumored laser weapon research, and unidentified aerial phenomenon observed at the site. A more redacted version of this report has been available on CIA's public website.
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# Intelligence Information Report DIRECTORATE OF OPERATIONS WARNING NOTICE SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED Classified by Recorded Reporting Officer. Exempt from General Declassification Schedule of E.O. 11652 E. Impossible to determine date of automatic declassification. THIS IS AN INFORMATION REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE PAGE 1 ## CONFIDENTIAL COUNTRY USSR REPORT NO. FIK K-311/01638 DATE DISTR. December 19 DOI November 1972-November 1973 SUBJECT The Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range FIELD NO. ACQ Germany FIELD NO. SOURCE former Soviet citizen who served This report Summary: This report provides limited information on the Sary Shagan weapons testing range, to include facilities, work areas, security fencing, the regional headquarters [V/Ch 03080]. and a warhead checkout unit [V/Ch 03142]. Also included is limited information on the following: System-75 [SA-2] and System-300/ Aldan [ABM-1 GALOSH] warheads; rumored laser research; and an unidentified aerial phenomenon. End of Summary. CONFIDENTIAL 3915084-13 STATE DIA NSA XXXX XXXX (For Field Distribution see final paragraph) USIA FBI SWS NPIC IAS OSR OWI OSO OCR
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Official release, from the pursue 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. 3 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.