PROBABLE MISSILE-RELATED ACTIVITY IN CARPATHIAN MILITARY DISTRICT, USSR

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 14, 2001
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: March 1, 1961
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PROBABLE MISSILE -RELATED ACTIV
IN CARPATHIAN MILITARY DISTRICT,
Photography of eveals the c.xpar2s of it road and
r`a.il--served artillery garrison in Uzhgorod, USSR ('Icl? "J 22-17E). This
expansion (see Figure 1, item 1) probably began about E>58, since the
area was reported to contain new barracks at that tin-r( I / Additional
construction appeared to be in progress in the area at -i time of the
photography. Another garrison on the north side of U h prod (item 2)
f71GURE I, UZHGOROD AREA. The red overprint on this
Lary facilities since then.
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NIMA/DOD
)hotogranh ,! ws the expansion of mili- 25X1 C
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Ic ~1liccin c panded since hotography. In Idition to the two
garrisons, a tank unit, a mec anize unit, and a signal nit are reported
f.c? be Iocatr,d in U zh,i.gorod. I/
A-r; uxlFlu ;fiv(,s-storage area 3 nm southeast of Uzhc, see Figure
I , ric rri .3) his been expanded since the-photograp additional
;ceuriiv has been provided for in the form of forest c :round the
pe ri meter of the area.
C1 Figure L).
A large maneuver area 6 nm
r},c town is
`I'll"rc' h.cve heern numerous reports of liquid-oxy ,ail cars
are Hit, Elzhtiorod-Svalyava-Mukachevo area. LOX ca -i erved on
ilghl. occasions and photographed from the ground in rail spur
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FIGURE 3, RAIL SPUR 6 KM EAST OF MUKACHEVO, The spur is new since the
raphy, used here as a base,
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near Mukachevo, 20 nm southeast of Uzhgorod (sec Figures 3 and 4). 2/,
3/ (In_no rail spur or activity was present. The Mukachevo area is
under heclouds on the M photography.)
The presence of LOX cars, coupled with the military expansion, sug-
gests that the Soviets may have deployed a surface-to-surface missile
unit or units in the Uzhgorod-Mukachevo area, although no suspect launch
sites could be located on the photography. From this area the Soviets
could reach most major targets in Europe with their present operational
medium-range missiles,
ACIC. WAG 232 (U)
SAC. US Air Target Chart, Series 200, Sheet 0232-24A., 1st ed,
Dec 57, scale 1:200, 000 (S)
AMS. Series M508, Sheet R49, 2d ed, Feb 54, scale 1:250, 000 (U)
1. CIA.. 12 Jan 60 (S/Noforn/Continued Control)
2. Air. A.CSI. SIRAB, Issue No 22, 2 Feb 61 (S/Noforn)
3. CIA.. RR EM 61-4, 10 Feb 61 (S)
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PROBABLE MISSILE-RELATED ACTIVITY
IN CARPATHIAN MILITARY DISTRICT, USSR
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