CABLE TO DIRNSA FROM CIA/IAS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04549A000600020041-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2007
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: February 21, 1968
• Content Type: CABLE

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CITE CIA/IAS-3071.
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CONTINUING ANALYSIS OF RADAR A, AN ARBITRARY NAME ASSIGNED TO
SIMILAR EQUIPMENT COMMONLY OBSERVED AT ALL OF THE SOVIET MISSILE
RANGES, INDICATES THAT IT IS AN OPTICAL TRACKING DEVICE RATHER
THAN A RADAR. THIS CONCLUSION IS BASED MAINLY ON THE FOLLOWING
COMPARISON OF THE RADAR A STRUCTURE WITH A SOVIET GROUND
PHOTOGRAPH DEPICTING A CINETHEODOLITE STATION.
1. THE RADAR A CONSISTS OF A 9 - ADOME MOUNTED ATOP A
SILO-LIKE STRUCTURE WHICH IS ABOUT IN DIAMETER AND
USUALLY HAS A BUILDING ATTACH . THE TOTAL HEIGHT
OF THE SILO AND DOME IS ABOUT THE RADAR A DOME APPEARS
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ARE VISIBLE ON SOME OF THE DOMES. THIS TYPE OF COVERING ALLOWS
THE DOME TO BE FOLDED BACK TO EXPOSE THE INTERIOR. THE COVERING
ON SEVERAL DOMES AT THE EMBA AND SARY SHAGAN MISSILE TEST CENTERS
HAS BEEN OBSERVED ON VARIOUS COVERAGES, INTERMITTENTLY OPENED
AND CLOSED.
THE CINETHEODOLITE FACILITY ALSO DEPICTS A CANVAS-COVERED
DOME SUPPORTED BY RIBS IN A HALF OPEN POSITION.
2. NO ANTENNA HAS BEEN OBSERVED ON THE CYLINDRICAL PLATFORM
AT FACILITIES WHEN THE COVERING IS RETRACTED. HOWEVER, THE
CONFIGURATION AND SIZE OF THE OBJECT OBSERVED 011 THE PLATFORM
CLOSELY RESEMBLES THE EQUIPMENT AT THE CINETHEODOLITE STATION.
3. AT EMBA AND SARY SHAGAN MISSILE TEST CENTERS, THE NUMBER
AND OVERALL PATTERN OF RADAR A LOCATIONS, RELATIVE TO THE RANGE
AXIS, WOULD INDICATE OPTICAL TRACKING. AS MANY AS SIX ADJACENT
RADARS OF THE SAME TYPE, SUCH AS RADAR A'S AT INSTRUMENTATION
SITES 8 AND 12, SARY SHAGAN MISSILE TEST CENTER SEEMS UNNECESSARY.
HOWEVER, SUCH AN ARRANGEMENT WOULD BE DESIREABLE FOR PRECISION
OPTICAL TRACKING.
4. SINCE ITS INITIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC IDENTIFICATION IN~ 25X1
AT TYURATAM, NO POSITIVE SIGNAL CORRELATION HAS BEEN 25X1
AINED FOR THE RADAR A. THE ONLY SIGNAL OBTAINED IN THE
VICINITY OF KNOWN RADAR A LOCATIONS HAS BEEN THE FIREWHEEL/
SHIPWHEEL SIGNAL, AND WHERE LARGE SCALE COVERAGE IS AVAILABLE,
A SEPARATE FIREWHEEL/SHIPWHEEL RADAR HAS BEEN 03SERVED AT THESE
LOCATIONS, OR THEIR PRESENCE COULD NOT BE DETERMINED.
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