ALLEGED NEW TYPE OF SOVIET SUBMARINE

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: CIA Analysis of the Soviet Navy
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005523234
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: June 19, 2017
• Document Release Date: June 19, 2017
• Case Number: SC-2007-00006
• Publication Date: August 10, 1955

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COUNTRY ItS,9R
SUBJECT A11001 1(04r*V111,01* SOlet
SII*Zar$46
DATE OF INFO. Late spring 1953
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SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE, APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
SOURCE: A rhtliable BOUtce
1, 191k Soviet Wavy tow has a submarine that can operate (mozhet plavat) at a
depth of 400 meter8.1 This subTarine cannot be spotted by aircraft; it is
also secure from depth 'charges, because the latter are effective Only at
much shallOwer depths,
2. Mformant also disclosed that the Soviet naval air arm es the sam&type
Of plane as Isud aviatiOn,
1,
STATE
;Jomments Available data tOdicates a test depth of 328 feet
for the S-class of SOViet submarines,
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