DIXON ISLAND
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CIA-RDP78-04864A000100010003-5
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RIFPUB
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1
Document Creation Date:
December 20, 2016
Document Release Date:
December 16, 1998
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3
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Publication Date:
May 7, 1998
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
Jj4 7EL_LIGENC:: REPORT
"OUNTRY: USSR
SUBJECT Dixon Island
ORIGIN Washington
EVALUATION OF SOURCE
To
COMPLETELY USUALLY
REUABL? RELIABLE
DISTRIBUTION
DATE: 4, ' * IT
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RELIABLE 1 JUDGED OTHER SOUR TRUE
TRUE
1. Maps of northern Siberia indicate a Port Dixon on the Siberian coast 6,12t Of
the mouth of the Yenisei River. They lead to the conclusion that allusions to i
Dixon Island may refer to Port Dixon, :rhicth one map gives as Dickson Mead. The
fact that the name is not Russian rives a certain probability to this theory.
2. The TASS, Soviet Overseas service, in an Fn#liah Morse transmission to North
America on February 14, 1947, at 7:53 a.m. broadcast the following item:
"Members of the Arctic exredition on board the ioe breaker North pole
arrived in Leningrad from Port Dixon and delivered to the Arctic
Institute collections they gaVierad during their lengthy journey.
This expedition, fitted out last autri~,ers reached the 73 1/2 degree of
north latitude. They were compelled to euavand any further advance
along the East Siberian Sea north-aw-de due to thick icefields. There-
fore,, the ice-breaker altered course and skirted Wrangel Isl.~:.sad around
the northern coast -- a feat never accomplished. by any other expedition
before. Then the ice-breaker guided several ice-locked ships to
Kozhevnikov Bay and toward. the end of October reached Port Dixon where
they took on board winterera who we[ a replaced by others. 'The total
length of the ice-breaker T s journey was some 16,000 miles."
":Fla document contains inform a f P#4 -t.i 4V P
national defense r6f the United Stats -i eat th h
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co, its contents in any rn r. to an. rnmh.thh-
p 2rson is prohibited by law.
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