FINLAND/USSR BORDER STUDY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T04753A000300030002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: January 28, 1957
• Content Type: STUDY

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This memorandum is for record purposes only. No distribution will
be made.
A detailed photo anal i.s was made of a ten mile wide strip along a
25 mile for section of the border. A photo mosaic was prepared for this
area and the requested detailed information was annotated directly onto a
photographic copy of the mosaic. Annotations included roads, streams,,
swsanps, power lines, towns, plowed strips and observation towers along the
border, t ,litary barracks (Zastaba) and other requested information.
This requirement was completed on a "crash" basis. Two conferences
were held with the requester duriw the progress of the work, and the
annotated mosaic completely satisfied the requirement.
The original annotated ,photograph of the mosaic was delivered to the
requester. A negative and one positive was made for record purposes, but
no further distribution wait made. The original :tosaic is on file in the
(:eok raphic Branch for possible future use.
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FLT}?,TRF2 ENT HTA/DDP/R1/ 7 requested a geographic study based on photo ra by
of a selected area near the Finland/L:.SF border and to evaluate the
feasibility of three selected routes for crossing the border.
MP 103 C TISAF MAW Chart. 11500,000.
AMS Series M515, NP 35, 36-10 1:250,x?
Russian Army General staff saga P-35-95, P35-96,
P.>35-107. P-35-108 1:100.000.
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FOR MAP REFERENCES: AMS Series N501 See CIA Map File for
oversized reports, 1957
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 INSTALLATION: Area Study MEMO NO.: NL-57
LOCATION: Vicinity of Baranovichi, USSR DATE: 300 January 1957
B.E. NUMBER: None LAT.: 52? 502 N
WAC NUMBER: 168 LONG.: 25? 15' E 25X1 D
PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
CIA/RR-HTA
Approved For
CES: AM Series N501, Eastern Europe 1:250,000.
Sheets NN 35-7, 35-8, 35-10, 35-11.
CIA/RR/HTA B17-56 New Minsk-Baranovichi Highway.
CIA/RR/HTA B9-56 Zhabinka-Tserkovnoye Railroad Area.
ENCLOSURES: Annotated overlay to maps referenced above.
REQUIREMENT RR/HTA/G/R7/56: Furnish a map overlay of certain areas in the
vicinity of Baranovichi, USSR showing changes in settlements; road net-
work, railroads, military installations, airfields and other significant
features.
Many areas shown as swamps on the map have been drained and are now under
cultivation, but in general, the map of the area is very accurate.
reflecting the major post-war military development of the Baranovichi Area.
The enclosed overlay shows the portion of'the requested areas that was
covered by vertical and oblique photography.
Significant changes and additions to the map were annotated directly
on the map overlay. Most changes in the map were of a military nature
Because of the security nature of this project, the original overlay
was delivered to the requester and no other distribution. was made.
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