CABLE (SANITIZED) FROM CIA/IAS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B03824A000100020030-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 1, 2009
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: January 21, 1970
• Content Type: CABLE

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A COMMAND/CONTROL FACILITY IS NEWLY IDENTIFIED UNDER CONSTRUCTION 17
NAUTICAL MILES (NM) NORTHEAST OF BELTSY, USSR AT 47-59N 28-14E (INTERIM
THE FACILITY CONSISTS OF AN OPERATIONS AREA CONTAINING
A LARGE BUILDING WHICH WILL EVENTUALLY BE EARTH-COVERED AND A SUPPORT AREA
CONTAINING FOOTINGS FOR SEVERAL LARGE BUILDINGS. EACH AREA IS SEPARATELY
SECURED. A CONSTRUCTION CAMP CONSISTING OF AT LEAST FOUR BUILDINGS IS
LOCATED NEARBY.
THIS FACILITY IS SIMILAR TO A PREVIOUSLY IDENTIFIED COMMAND/CONTROL
FACILITY LOCATED 15 NM SOUTH OF IT AND 10 NM EAST OF BELTSY AT 47-45N
28-09E, EXCEPT THAT THE COMMAND/CONTROL BUILDING IS LARGER. THE DEPLOYMENT
OF THESE FACILITIES WITHIN 40 NM OF THE RUSSIAN/ROMANIAN BORDER IS SIMILAR
TO THAT OF TWO PREVIOUSLY REPORTED FACILITIES LOCATED NEAR BREST, USSR
ALONG THE RUSSIAN/POLISH BORDER. THE BREST COMMAND/CONTROL FACILITIES
ARE POSITIONED SEVEN NM APART AND ARE LOCATED AT 52-21N 23-49E AND 52-25N
23-59E RESPECTIVELY. THESE LATTER FACILITIES ARE NEARLY IDENTICAL EXCEPT
THAT, LIKE BELTSY, ONE COMMAND/CONTROL BUILDING IS LARGER. ALSO, AT THE
EASTERNMOST FACILITY NEAR BREST SEVERAL HF COMMUNICATIONS ANTENNAS ARE
UNDER CONSTRUCTION, ONE OF WHICH IS A RHOMBIC HAVING AN APPROXIMATE
ORIENTATION OF 90/270 DEGREES.
A FIFTH SIMILAR COMMAND/CONTROL FACILITY HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY
IDENTIFIED 32 NM SOUTHEAST OF MOSCOW, USSR NEAR NARO-FOMINSK AT 55-27N
36-49E.
ALL FIVE COMMAND/CONTROL FACILITIES WERE STARTED IN THE SAME GENERAL
TIME FRAME. CONSTRUCTION PROBABLY BEGAN IN EARLY 1968 AND WILL PROBABLY
BE COMPLETED IN EARLY 1970.
PHOTOGRAPHY:
BELTSY COMMAND/CONTROL FACILITY
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