NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTER THE YEARS OF PROJECT HTAUTOMAT, 1956 - 1958 VOLUME VI

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NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTER
THE YEARS OF PROJECT HTAUTOMAT, 1956 - 1958
VOLUME VI
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December 1974
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THE YEARS OF PROJECT HTAUTOMAT, 1956 - 1958
VOLUME VI
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Contents
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Foreword . . . . . .
I. The First Looks Behind the Iron Curtain. . . . . 1
A. The Anatomy of HTA . . . . . . . ? ? 3
1. Office of the Chief . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Special Projects Branch. ... . . . . . 4
3. Industrial and Geographic Branches . . . 6
4. Technical Intelligence Branch. . . . . ? 8
5. Support Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6. Administrative Staff . . . . . . . . . . 12
7. Statistical Branch, OCR. . . . . . . . . 12.
8. Military Liaison Components. . . . . . . 14
9. Central Branch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
B. The First Eight Missions Dominate Events of
July and August . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
1. The Eight Missions and Their Objectives. 20
2. Immediate Exploitation of the First
Eight Missions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3. Detailed Exploitation During July
and August 1956 . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
4. Technical Support. . . . . . . . . . . . 27
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5. Support Activities . . . . . . . 29
6. OCR Statistical Branch Charges
Forward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
7. Task Force: Headquarters
Outpost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
8. Return from Europe . . . . . . . . . . 35
II. The Middle East Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
A. U-2s Assume a Tactical Role. . . . . . . . 45.
B. HTA and the PARAMOUNT Committee. . . . . . 47
C. Functioning of the PARAMOUNT Committee .
E. HTA Continues Work on the First Eight
Missions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F. A Stirring Giant . . . . . . . . . . . 60
G. PI Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.
H. Looking Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
III. Back on Course . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
B. Organizational Incongruity . . . . . . . . 75
C. Briefing-Aid Books . . . . . . . . . . . 77
D. Soviet Long-Range Airfields. . . . . . . . 80
E. Mozhaysk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
F. Testing. . . Testing . . . . . . . . . . . 100
G. Signs of Drought . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
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IV. Reorganization and Renewal . . . . . . . . 109
A. Training and orientation . . . . . . . . . 110
B. Training and Orientation Offered by HTA. . 121
C. New Tools for Eager Hands. . . . . . . . . 122
D. Familiar Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
E. Reorganization and Reassignment. . . . . . 148
V. On to Greater Accomplishments. . . . . . . . 159
A. First Aerial Coverage of Russian
Scientific and Technical Installations. . 159
B. Rejuvenation and Resumption of
Discoveries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
1. Changing Faces and Responsibilities. . 163
2. New Discoveries Dominate Work at HTA . 166
C. Other Mouths to Feed . . . . . . . . . . . 171
D. New Administrative Procedures. . . . . . . 178
E. Specter of a Job Freeze. . . . . . . . . . 182
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VI. JAM SESSION Steals the Show. . . . . . . . . . 184
A. Establishment of JAM SESSION . . . . . . . 184
C. GMIC Targets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
1. The Tyura Tam Missile Test Center and
Test Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
2. The Kapustin Yar Missile Test Center
and Test Range. . . . . . . . . . . . 217
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3. Good-Bye to GMIC Consultants . . . 240
D. Show and Tell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
E. Other PI Exploitation and Reporting. . . . 251
F. Making Equipment Function Better and
Getting Better Equipment. . . . . . . . . 258
G. The HTAUTOMAT Organization Reacts to JAM
SESSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
VII. Winds of Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
D. Not by JAM SESSION Alone . . . . . . . . .
E How to Proceed With the Publication
of Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
F. Carpenters, Plumbers, and New Equipment. . 334
G. People and Hierarchies . . . . . . . . . . 340
Volume III
VIII. HTAUTOMAT Becomes the Photographic
Intelligence Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
A. The Last Months of JAM SESSION . . . . . . 355
1. COMINT Comes to MSB. . . . . . . . . . 356
2. A Bear by the Tail . . . . . . . . . . 357
3. The Show Goes On . . . . . . . . . . . 366
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4. A General on His Knees and PI Keys . . 376
5. Two Soviet Heavy Water Plants. . . . . 386
6. Uranium Mining and Milling Sites . . . 390
B. Keeping Busy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
C. Operating Procedures for HTA -- and PIC. . 427
D. Automated Mensuration -- With Bugs . . . . 438
F. A Center at Last . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
Appendices
A. Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
B. Chronology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
C. Source References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482
Volume IV
Figures, No. 1 through No. 39
Volume V
Figures, No. 40 through No. 86
Volume VI
Figures, No. 87 through No. 129
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Figure 1. Steuart Building ........................................... 2
Figure 2. The U-2: Reconnaissance Aircraft Supreme .................. 4
Figure 3. HTA TOMAT: Organization and Key Personnel, July 1956...... 6
Figure 4. ............................. 8
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Figure 5. Central Building ? . ..........................?
Figure 6. Range of U-2 aircraft from operational bases ............... 12
Figure 7. Tracks of the first eight U-2 operational missions ......... 14
Figure 8. MM 50 Surveying Camera ................... ................. 16
Figure 9. Orsha Airfield and probable special weapons storage area,
14 July 1956 ............................................. 18
Figure 10. Stryy Airfield and special weapons storage and loading
installation, 10 July 1956 ............................... 20
Figure 11. Mozhaysk Installation, 5 July 1956 ......................... 22
Figure 12. Domed Structure, Mozhaysk Installation.' .................... 24
Figure 13. Artist's concept of the domed structure and its incomplete
counterpart (Unit 1) ..................................... 26
Figure 14. Oblique view and metrical analysis of the counterpart
of the completed dome .................................... 28
Figure 15. Composite layout of Units 4, 5, and 6 .......... ........... 30
Figure 16. P2V-7: Disappointment in Night Photo Reconnaissance ....... 32
Figure 17. Comparator obtained from Photogrammetry, Inc . ............. 34
Figure 18. Mensuration teams in the Technical Intelligence
Services Branch, c. late 1957 ............................ 36
Figure 19. The Reed Transforming Printer .............................. 38
Figure 20. The Reed Rectifier ......................................... 40
Figure 21. Modified Binocular Microscope .............................. 42
Figure 22. Using the Heath Prisms ..................................... 44
Figure 23. "Twin Eyes," 10 July 1956 .................................. 46
Figure 24. Karangit Installation, 10 July 1956 ..48
Figure 25. HTA Organizational Realignment, July 1957 .................. 50
Figure 26. U-2 bases and reference points for important targets
. covered during the summer and fall of 1957 ............... 52
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LIST OF FIGURES (Continued)
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Figure 39. Location and general geographical relationships
of the Tyura Tam Missile Test Center and
associated missile test range ............................ 78
Figure 40. Chief components of the Tyura Tam Missile
Test Center, August 1957 ................................. 80
Figure 41. Launch Area A, Tyura Tam Missile Test Center,
August 1957 .............................................. 82
Figure 42. Details and dimensions of the launching platform
and associated pit, Launch Area A, Tyura Tam
Missile Test Center, August 1957 ......................... 84
Figure 43. Range head facilities, Tyura Tam Missile Test
Center, August 1957 ...................................... 86
Figure 44. Details of launch support facilities,
Launch Area A, Tyura Tam Missile Test Center,
August 1957 .............................................. 88
Figure 45. Support Base, Tyura Tam Missile Test Center,
August 1957 .............................................. 90
Figure 46. Communications Area B, Tyura Tam Missile
Test Center, August 1957 ................................. 92
Figure 47. Rhombic and fishbone antenna arrays and the
orientation and dimensions of those in
Communications Area B, Tyura Tam Missile Test
Center, August 1957 ...................................... 94
Figure 48. Probable propellant production plant under
construction, Tyura Tam Missile Test Center,
August 1957 .................................................. 96
Figure 49. Probable primary direction of fire from
Launch Area A, Tyura Tam Missile Test Center ............. 98
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LIST OF FIGURES (Continued) Page
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Probable terminal range instrumentation in the.
Kamchatka Peninsula for the Tyura Tam Missile
Test Range, June and September 1957 ...................... 100
Communications Center under construction in
September 1957, near Kluychi on the Kamchatka
Peninsula ................................................ 102
Layout of range head facilities with respect to
each other and to the settlements of Kapustin
Yar and Vladimirovka, September 1957 ..................... 104
Zones 4, 5, and 6, Kapustin Yar Missile Test
Center, September 1957 ................................... 106
Layout of facilities, Zones 7 and 8, Kapustin
Yar Missile Test Center, September 1957 .................. 108
Trailer-mounted Soviet MRBM associated by
JAM SESSION consultants with firings from
Zone 7, Kapustin Yar Missile Test Center ................. 110
Tank-mounted short-range Soviet ballistic
missile associated by JAM SESSION consultants
with firings from the smaller pads at Zone 7,
Kapustin Yar Missile Test Center ......................... 112
Zones 7 and 8, Kapustin Yar Missile Test Center, as
they appeared on photography of 10 September 1957 ........ 114
Photograph of Zone 9, Kapustin Yar Missile Test Center,
September 1957 ........................................... 116
Layout of facilities, Zone 9, Kapustin Yar Missile
Test Center .............................................. 118
Launch Area South, Zone 9, Kapustin Yar Missile
Test Center, September 1957 .............................. 120
Photograph of launch complex, Zone 10, Kapustin
Yar Missile Test Center, September 1957 .................. 122
Perspective view of launch complex, Zone 10,
Kapustin Yar Missile Test Center, September 1957 ......... 124
Zone 11, Kapustin Yar Missile Test Center,
September 1957 ........................................... 126
Zone 12, Kapustin Yar Missile Test Center,
September 1957 ........................................... 128
Vladimirovka Airfield Complex, Kapustin Yar Missile
Test Center, September 1957 .............................. 130
Cruise-missile test complex, Zone 15, Kapustin
Yar Missile Test Center, September 1957 .................. 132
Airborne-missile assembly and loading complex,
Kapustin Yar Missile Test Center, September 1957 ......... 134
Layout and dimensions of structures, airborne-
missile assembly and loading complex,
Kapustin Yar Missile Test Center, September 1957 ......... 136
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Figure 69. Surface-to-air missile test complex, Zone 1, Kapustin
Yar Missile Test Center, September 1957 .................. 138
Figure 70. Surface-to-air missile test range guidance and
instrumentation facilities, Zone 2, Kapustin
Yar Missile Test Center, September 1957 ................ 140
Figure 71. Surface-to-air missiles photographed in the Moscow
parade and believed to be the type tested at
the surface-to-air missile test facility,
Kapustin Yar Missile Test Center ......................... 142
Figure 72. Forward instrumentation, Zone 7, Kapustin Yar
Missile Test Center, September 1957 ...................... 144
Figure 73. Guidance and forward instrumentation, Zone 9,
Kapustin Yar Missile Test Center, September 1957 ......... 146
Figure 74. L-shaped instrument patterns associated with
Zone 10, Kapustin Yar Missile Test Center,
September 1957 ........................................... 148
Figure 75. The ALWAC III-E Computer ............................... 150
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LIST OF FIGURES (Continued) ,
Figure 98. Location of Vozrozhdeniya Island, USSR... .................. 196
Figure 99. Vozrozhdeniya Island and facilities, August 1957 ........... 198
Figure 104. Konstantin Island facility, across the strait from
Vozrozhdeniya Island, August 1957 ........................ 208
Figure 105. Supply Base at Aralsk for operations on
Vozrozhdeniya Island, August 1957 ........................ 210
Figure 106. Prepared Table of Organization, 7 March 1958 ............... 212
Figure 107. Overall view of the Chirchik Electrochemical
Combine, August 1957 ..................................... 214
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LIST OF FIGURES (Continued)
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Figure 110. The Kadshi-Say mining and milling complex,
................... .............
August 1957.......... 220
Figure 112. Location of the mining and milling sites at
Taboshar, Ispisar, and Mayly-Say with respect
to each other and to population centers in the
Fergana Valley of the USSR .............................. 224
Figure 113. The Mayly-Say mining and milling complex, August 1957 ..... 226
Figure 115. Taboshar mining and milling complex, August 1957 .......... 230
Figure 129. The Nistri TA-3 Stereocomparator .......................... 258
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Location of Vozrozhdeniya Island, USSR.
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Vozrozhdeniya Island and facilities, August 1957.
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Konstantin Island facility, across the strait from
Vozrozhdeniya Island, August 1957.
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Supply Base at Aralsk for operations on Vozrozhdeniya
Island, August 1957.
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Prepared Table of Organization, 7 March 1958. This prepared
reorganization involved a merger of the ORR Photo Intelli-
gence Division and the OCR Statistical Division to form the
CIA Photographic Intelligence Center at the Office level un-
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Overall view of the Chirchik Electrochemical Combine, August
1957. The Boz-Su Canal appears in the upper left of the
photograph.
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The Kadzhi-Say mining and milling complex, August 1957. The
town after which the complex was named lies off the map, to
the west.
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Location of the mining and milling sites at Taboshar, Ispisar,
and Mayly-Say with respect to each other and to population
centers in the Fergana Valley of the USSR.
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Taboshar mining and milling complex, August 1957.
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FIGURE 126
Bukhovo mining and milling complex, December 1956.
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The Nistri TA-3 Stereocomparator. This instrument, which
weighed 2963 pounds, was set on a special base fabricated
by the Arlington Iron Works. The Telecordex unit, part of
which is visible in the lower left hand corner of the photo
photo, was not used with the Nistri. Probably it was
hooked up with a Mann comparator which was located near
the Nistri.
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