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• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06879699
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: May 21, 2021
• Case Number: F-2021-00423
• Publication Date: May 2, 1994

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02-May-1994 22:14:00
03-May-1994 02:22:34
EST, RUS
EUROPE, EURASIA, ESTONIA, RUSSIA
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Agency Acronym: CIA
Office Name: NCS
Warn'n :
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
AGENCY INFORMATION REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE ---
(U) CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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(U) INFOR7 N T�WNINTEL--NOFORN-
REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE REPORT
CLASS S 01ST: 2 MAY 1994
(U) REPORT CLASS S E� E T�WARNING --INTELLIGENCE SOURCES OR
METHODS INVOLVED�NOT RELEASABLE TO FOREIGN NATIONALS�NOT
ALL PORTIONS CARRY
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AN EARLY MARCH ESTONIAN 11ORDER TROOPS CONFISCATION OF A SHIPMENT CONTAINING MORE
THAN 8,000 RUSSIAN PISTOLS. THE LATE MARCH BORDER INCIDENT WHICH LED TO THE DEATH OF A(b)(1)
RUSSIAN BORDER GUARD WAS PERPETRATED BY ARMS SMUGGLERS. LASTLY, IN SEPTEMBER 1993, CRIMINALS (bp)
SMUGGLED APPROXIMATELY 30,000 PISTOLS STOLEN FROM RUSSIAN ARMY WAREHOUSES IN WARSAW AND BECK,
THROUGH ESTONIA, TO RUSSIA FOR EVENTUAL DISTRIBUTION IN THE CAUCASAS AND CENTRAL ASIA.
RIMINALS USE TARTU AS THE MAIN HUB OF WEAPONS SMUGGLING, REPACKAGING LARGE SHIPMENTS(b)( )
PRIOR TO SMUGGLING THEM INTO RUSSIA AT THE LUHAMAA BORDER CROSSING POINT. (b)(3)
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(U) NONE.
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en
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