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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B03824A000100020058-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 1, 2009
• Sequence Number: 58
• Publication Date: January 20, 1970
• Content Type: CABLE

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1. MISSION 1108 (5-21 DEC 69) REVEALS A POSSIBLE MISSILE RELATED
FACILITY UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT SVOBODNYY, USSR, 47 NM EAST OF THE CHINA
BORDER AT 51-15-40N 128-15-OOE THE FACILITY, LOCA'T D ADJACENT TO
SVOBODNYY MILITARY ARTILLERY DEPOT DA-1 CONSTSTS OF
A WALLED AREA CONTAINING TWO EARTH-COVERED, ARCH-ROOFED BUILDINGS, TWO ARCH-
ROOFED BUILDINGS BEING EARTH COVERED, ONE EXCAVATION FOR AN ARCHED-ROOFED
BUILDING, A PRELIMINARY EXCAVATION FOR AN ARCH-ROOFED BUILDING, AND
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PROBABLE VEHICLE STORAGE BUILDING FOUNDATION. A SUPPORT AREA UNDER CON-
STRUCTION IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF THE WALLED AREA CONTAINS 21 BUILDINGS, COMPLETE
OR UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
2. THIS FACILITY AT SVOBODNNYY IS THE THIRD POSSIBLE MISSILE RELATED
FACILITY OF THIS TYPE IDENTIFIED IN THE USSR, AND ALL THREE ARE ON THE SINO-
SOVIET BORDER. THE OTHER TWO ARE AT OTAR AND KHABAROVSK. THESE THREE
FACILITIES DIFFER FROM KNOWN TACTICAL SSM SUPPORT FACILITIES IN AT LEAST
TWO WAYS. EACH OF THE THREE FACILITIES HAS, OR WILL HAVE, A LARGE- (18-BAY)
VEHICLE STORAGE BUILDING NOT FOUND IN A NORMAL SSM SUPPORT FACILITY, AND NONE
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