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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B03817A001000020010-1
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• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 28, 2008
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: December 29, 1967
• Content Type: CABLE

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PRELIMINARY OAK NO. I MISSION
FOLLOW IN A LATER OAK EDITION.
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THIS IS A PRELIMINARY OAK CABLE BASED ON PHOTOGRAPHY FROM
KH-4B MISSION 1102-2, DATED 15-22 DEC 1967. PART I REPORTS ON
HIGH INTEREST TARGETS OBSERVED IN THE MIDDLE EAST, PART 2 ON
CHINA SOUTH OF 32 DEGREES NORTH AND NORTH VIETNAN, PART 3 ON
NORTH KOREA, AND PART 4 ON OTHER TARGETS, PRIMARILY IN THE USSR.
ANALYSIS IS CONTINUING.
PART 1
1. PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE MIDDLE EAST IS OF GOOD INTERPRETABILITY.
HOWEVER, APPROXIMATELY 30 PERCENT AND THE SUEZ-SINAI
AREA IS CLOUD COVERED. ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT, S PARTIALLY CLOUD 25X1
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COVERED, BUT THE NAVAL BASE AT RAS AL TIN IS CLEAR. WADI ABU
GHUSUN AND MINA BARANIS ARE CLOUD FREE. AIRFIELDS AT DUKHAYLAH,
AL MINYA, AL ARISH, GEBEL LIBNI,
BIR JIFJAFAH NEW, AND BIR HASANAH NEW, ALL N EGYPT ARE CLOUD
COVERED. CLOD COVER ALSO PRECLUDES READOUT
2. OF THE 41 KNOWN SA-2 SAM SITES IN EGYPT, 19 ARE COVERED.
OF THESE, 11 ARE OCCUPIED. AN OCCUPIED SA-2 SAM SITE IS NEWLY
IDENTIFIED 11.7 NM SW OF AL ISMAILIYA AT 30-26-20N 032-10-10E.
ALSO COVERED ARE TWO OF THE KNOW SAM SUPPORT FACILITIES.
HOWEVER OCCUP NCY IS UNDETERMINED
4. THE AS SUWAYS SUSPECT CW STORAGE AREA AND THE AS SUWAYS
CHEMICAL PLANT SAE, EGYPT, ARE COVERED ON PHOTOGRAPHY OF GOOD
INTERPRETABILITY. NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES OBSERVED.
5. IN ALGERIA, BEAGLE (10) ARE IDENTIFIED FOR THE FIRST TIME
AT LAGHOUAT/EL MEKRAREG AIRFIELD.
6. AT ALHUDAYDAH NEW AIRFIELD IN YEMEN AN INCREASE OF 4
BEAGLE AND 4 FRESCO/FAGOT IS OBSERVED SINCE
~. THE PORT AREA IS IMAGED ON CLOUD-FREE PHOTOGRAPHY.
PART II
1. SOUTH CHINA AND NORTH VIETNAM ARE APPROXIMATELY 30-35
PERCENT CLOUD COVERED WITH APPROXIMATELY 90 PERCENT OF NORTH
VIETNAM COVERED ON TWO PASSES.
2. NAVAL TARGETS IN SOUTH CHINA ARE CLEAR WITH THE EXCEPTION
CF YU-LIN. ORDER OF BATTLE APPEARS TO BE AT NORMAL LEVELS. BOTH
HAIPHONG AND HANOI ARE CLOUD FREE.
3. OF THE 224 KNOWN SA-2 SAM SITES IN NORTH VIETNAM, SEVEN
ARE THUS FAR OBSERVED IN CLOUD-FREE AREAS. NO NEW SAM INSTALLATIONS
HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED.
PART III
1. APPROXIMATELY ONE HALF OF NORTH KOREA IS COVERED ON
PHOTOGRAPHY WHICH IS 100 PERCENT CLOUD FREE FROM THE CHINA BORDER
TO JUST NORTH OF THE DMZ. THE DMZ IS COMPLETELY CLOUD COVERED.
2. OF THE 14 KNOWN SA-2 SAM SITES AND THE ONE KNOWN SAM
SUPPORT FACILITY IN NORTH KOREA, SEVEN SAM SITES AND THE SUPPORT
FACILITY ARE COVERED. NAMPO SAM SITE B30-2 AND THE FOLLOWING
PYONGYANG SAM SITES ARE OCCUPIED: C33-2, C05-2, C29-2, B17-2,
B23-2, AND C12-2. OCCUPANCY CANNOT BE DETERMINED FOR THE
PYONGYANG SAM SUPPORT FACILITY.
3. CHOLSAN SUSPECT CRUISE MISSILE/COASTAL DEFENSE SITE AND
NAMPO CRUISE MISSILE LAUNCH NO 1 ARE COVERED ON PHOTOGRAPHY OF
GOOD INTERPRETABILITY, AND THE LATTER FACILITY APPEARS OCCUPIED.
PART IV
1. SEVEN OF THE 25 KNOWN SOVIET ICBM COMPLEXES ARE COVERED.
KARTALY, SV OBODNYY, YOSHKAR-OLA, AND ZHANGIZ-TOBE ARE CLEAR, AND
ALEYSK, VERKHNYAYA SALDA, AND TATISHCHEVO ARE OBSERVED THROUGH
SCATTERED CLOUDS OR HAZE. TWO NEW SITES ARE IDENTIFIED AT YOSHKAR-
CI.A, BRINGING TO 12 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF SINGLE SILO SITES AT THIS
COMPLEX.
2. THE TYURATAM MISSILE TEST CENTER AND THE PLESETSK MISSILE
AND SPACE CENTER, USSR, ARE NOT COVERED.
3. ONLY THE SAM RANGEHEAD FACILITIES AND THE AKHTUBINSK/
VLADIMIROVKA AIRFIELD AT THE KAPUSTIN YAR/VLADIMIROVKA TEST CENTER,
USSR, ARE OBSERVED ON PHOTOGRAPHY THROUGH SCATTERED CLOUDS. NO
SIGNIFICANT CHANGES OBSERVED.
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4. SA-5 SAM LAUNCH COMPLEXES COVERED ON INTERPRETABLE
PHOTOGRAPHY INCLUDE NIZHNIY-TAGIL, NIZHNYAYA TUBA, SVERDLOVSK,
CHELYABINSK, VLADIVOSTOK, AND KAPUSTIN YAR. ALL REVEAL SNOW
CONDITIONS. AN OCCUPIED AIR WARNING RADAR FACILITY IS NEWLY
IDENTIFIED NEAR THE CHELYABINSK SA-5 SAM LAUNCH COMPLEX.
5. THE SKRUNDA ABM/SPACE TRACKING RADAR FACILITY HAS
SCATTERED-TO-HEAVY HAZE, CLOUD COVER, AND SNOW CONDITIONS. THE
AREA OF CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY ASSOCIATED WITH THE POSSIBLE NEW
DUAL HEN HOUSE RADAR IS VISIBLE THROUGH THE HAZE. HOWEVER, THE
REMAINDER OF THE SKRUNDA FACILITY IS OBSCURED BY HAZE AND CLOUDS.
6. THE KAMCHATKA HEN HOUSE SEARCH AREA IS CLOUD COVERED/NOT
COVERED.
7. THE TWO HIGH PRIORITY SOVIET NAVAL TARGETS, VLADIVOSTOK
AND PETROVKA, ARE CLOUD COVERED.
8. THE SHUANG-CHENG-TZU MISSILE TEST CENTER IS COVERED ON
PHOTOGRAPHY OF FAIR INTERPRETABILITY ON NO ACTIVITY
IS APPARENT AT LAUNCH COMPLEXES A, C, OR D. CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY
CONTINUES AT LAUNCH COMPLEX B WHERE A NEW RAIL SPUR APPROXIMATELY
700 FEET IN LENGTH HAS BEEN CONSTRUCTED IN THE VICINITY OF THE
LAUNCH AREA SINCE
9. THREE OF THE SUSPECT ADVANCED WEAPONS-RELATED FACILITIES
IN CHINA ARE OBSERVED. THE MOUNDING OF THE CENTRAL STRUCTURES
AT PEI-CHING ESE IS PROBABLY COMPLETE. AT PEI-CHING SOUTH, THE
RAIL BED HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO POINTS ON EITHER SIDE OF THE
rrNTRet cTRtt(:TitRF_ AT C4t1ANG-CHENG-TZtt NNE. NO CHANGE IS APPARENT.
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