COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA AT ABM-RELATED FACILITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T04759A009700010006-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 23, 2003
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: May 26, 1970
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, P04/SPO, NSA
ATTENTION
SUBJECT : Communications Media at ABM-Related Facilities
REFERENCE : NSA/SPO/R-110-70
NPIC Project 250694
1. In response to the referenced NSA requirement a careful review of
photography was conducted to determine the existence of communica-
tions antennas at the following facilities: Moscow ABM Launch Complexes
1305, E24, E31, and E33, Naro-Fominsk ABM/Space Radar Sites A and B, Chekhov
ABM/Space Sites A and B, Olenegorsk ABM/Space Tracking Radar Facility,
Skrunda ABM/Space Tracking Radar Facility, Sevastopol ABM/Space Tracking
Radar Facility, Mishelevka Antisatellite/Space Tracking Radar Facility, and
Sary-Shagan Antisatellite/Space Tracking Radar Facility.
2. Neither communications antennas or unidentified communications
facilities could be discerned at any of the above facilities. However, an
association between the Olenegorsk ABM/Space Tracking Radar Facility and
the Olenegorsk Troposcatter Facility can not be ruled out. The Olenegorsk
Troposcatter Facility (68-04-30N 033-59-30E) is positioned approximately
3 nautical miles southeast of the HEN HOUSE radars. It consists of two
type IIA troposcatter antennas, a control building, and two support build-
ings. It was first identified on photography of and became 25X1
suspect as a possible communications link from the HEN HOUSE radars. The
appearance of trenching which connects the troposcatter facility with the
support area for the LIEN HOUSE radars lends additional evidence to this
suspicion. Although the troposcatter facility may serve in a HEN HOUSE
communications role, it is more probable that-it is a segment of the Moscow
to Murmansk communications chain with its correspondent at Ponoy, USSR.
3. For further information please contact
NPIC,
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