PHOTOGRAPHY ON MISSION B 4155

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05164A000100020006-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 14
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 26, 2001
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 16, 1960
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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DUE TO ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS, THE COVERAGE QUALITY. OF. THE
PHOTOGRAPHY ON MISSION B 4155 RANGED FROM POOR TO GOOD. OVER-ALL
CLOUD COVER WAS APPROXIMATELY 40 PERCENT, WITH THE HEAVIEST
CONCENTRATION OVER THE AND.IZHAN AND TYURA TAM AREAS. RESOLUTIONS
CONTRAST, AND DENSITY WERE CONSIDERED'GOOD IN THOSE AREAS.NOT
GREATLY AFFECTED BY WEATHER CONDITIONS.
THIS PRELIMINARY REPORT COVERS ITEMS OF IMPORTANT'INTELLIGENCE
SIGNIFICANCE IN RESPONSE TO REQUIREMENTS LEVIED BY THE INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY,
SUMMARY
COVERING A WIDE AREA BETWEEN THE FERGANA VALLEY, SEMIPALATINSK9 AND
THE ARAL SEAS MISSION B 4155 INCLUDES IN ITS PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD
THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ITEMS OF INTELLIGENCE INTEREST.
GUIDED MISSILES AND ELECTRONICS
A NEW-TYPE LAUNCH AREA IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT TYURA TAM,
AN AREA OF SOME 89000 SQUARE MILES BETWEEN LAKE BALKHASH
AND D?_HEZKAZGAN IS SEEN FOR THE FIRST TIME AND DISCLOSES
MANY MISSILE-ASSOCIATED INSTALLATIONS. INCLUDED ARE
INTERFEROMETER-TYPE INSTRUMENTATION SITES, NUMEROUS.
COMMUNICATIONS AND TRACKING FACILITIES, MISSILE LAUNCH AND
SUPPORT AREAS9 A LARGE DIRT STRIP (16,300 X 260 FT'), AND
OTHER UNIDENTIFIED INSTALLATIONS,
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AIRCRAFT AND AIRFIELDS
ONLY 13 AIRFIELDS WERE COVERED, 7 OF WHICH ARE MAJOR FIELDS.
A TOTAL. OF 251 AIRCRAFT WERE OBSERVED, INCLUDING 48 BOMBERS,
122 FIGHTERS, AND 81 OTHER TYPES.
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NUMEROUS GUIDED--MISSILE-ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES HAVE BEEN
LOCATED IN AN AREA OF SOME 8,000 SQUARE MILES EXTENDING
FROM LAKE BALKHASH TO SARY SHAGAN AND ON TO DZHEZKAZGAN.
THE-COMPLEXITY OF THIS ENTIRE AREA COMPLICATE[ BY PARTIAL
CLOUD COVER, WILL NECESSITATE CONSIDERABLE DETAILED
ANALYSIS, USING ALL-SOURCE INTELLIGENCE, TO PUT TOGETHER A
COMPOSITE INTELLIGENCE PICTURE.
WHILE NO ATTEMPT IS MADE HERE TO DESCRIBE OR LOCATE ALL THE
INSTALLATIONS IN THIS LARGE AREA, SOME NOTION OF THE
IMPORTANCE OF THIS COVERAGE CAN BE IMPARTED BY BRIEFLY
LISTING INSTALLATIONS NOTED DURING THE PRELIMINARY SCAN MADE
FOR THIS ODE. DETAILED STUDY OF THIS AREA COULD RESULT IN
THE MOST PROVOCATIVE AND POSSIBLY THE MOST PRODUCTIVE
RESULTS FROM ANY TALENT COVERAGE OF SOVIET MISSILE
ACTIVITIES TO DATE.
SUBSTANTIVE BRIEFS ON MAJOR INSTALLATIONS WILL BE STARTED
IMMEDIATELY AFTER THIS PRELIMINARY REPORT AND DISSEMINATED
AS RAPIDLY AS POSSIBLE. NOT UNTIL THE FINAL READOUT HAS
BEEN MADE WILL THE ROLES AND INTERRELATIONSHIPS OF THE
INSTALLATIONS IN THIS AREA BE UNDERSTOOD,
THE FOLLOWING LIST SERVES ONLY AS AN INDICATOR OF THE NUMBER
AND VARIETY OF INSTALLATIONS SEEN OVER A VAST PROBLEM AREA
WHICH NOW CONFRONTS THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.
SARY SHAGAN AREA
46 01 N - 73 30 E
1. AIRFIELD COMPLEX INCLUDING A CONCRETE RUNWAY, AN
EXTREMELY LONG DIRT STRIP (16'300 X 260 FT)e MISSILE
ASSEMBLY AND CHECKOUT FACILITIES UNDER CONSTRUCTION,
AND REVETTED STORAGE FACILITIES.
TWO STORAGE AREAS
ONE RADIO RECEIVING AREA
LARGE HOUSING COMPLEX
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CONSTRUCTION SUPPORT AREAS
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TWO DEGREE SQUARE AREA
46 TO 48 N 71 TO 73 E
1. GUIDED MISSILE LAUNCH COMPLEX
A. LAUNCH AND SUPPORT AREA -- THIS AREA# PARTIALLY
CLOUD COVERED, INCLUDES AT LEAST ONE LARGE LAUNCH
PAD AND TWO LARGE SEMICIRCULAR PAVED AREAS
MEASURING 200 TO 300 FEET IN DIAMET?R. BUNKERS, A
TALL TOWER, AND A DRIVE-THROUGH BUILDING ARE ALSO
EVIDENT IN THIS AREA. THE SEMICIRCULAR AREAS MAY
BE EITHER NEW-TYPE LAUNCH PADS OR ELECTRONIC
CONFIGURATIONS.
Be PROBABLE LANDING STRIP UNDER CONSTRUCTION WITH
HOUSING SUPPORT AREA
Co SEVERAL RADIO INSTRUMENTATION SITES
D. QUARRY AND CONCRETE BATCH PLANT
E. INTERFEROMETER-TYPE INSTRUMENTATION SITE UNDER
CONSTRUCTION
F. COMMUNICATIONS UNDER CONSTRUCTION, WITH A SUPPORT
AREA AND MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS ALREADY IN EXISTENCE
ALL THESE FACILITIES ARE IN THE SAME GENERAL AREA, ARE
APPARENTLY INTERRELATED, AND ARE INTERCONNECTED BY A
HARD-SURFACE ROAD THAT LEADS TO SARY SHAGAN,
APPROXIMATELY 70 NM TO THE EAST.
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TWO DEGREE SQUARE AREA
46 TO 48 N - 69 TO 71 E
INTERFEROMETER-TYPE INSTRUMENTATION STATION, WITH
ASSOCIATED AREA, CONTAINING 3 DOMED BUILDINGS, A PROBABLE
MICROWAVE STATION, A TOKEN-TYPE RADAR, AND AT LEAST 30
OTHER BUILDINGS.
INTERFEROMETER-TYPE INSTRUMENTATION STATION WITH
ASSOCIATED SUPPORT AREA, CONTAINING AT LEAST 27 RUILbINGS
AND WITH A SOD LANDING STRIP NEARBY..
DZHEZKAZGAN
47 48 N - 67 29 E
A LARGE INSTRUMENTATION SITE, POSSIBLY USED FOR MISSILE
TRACKING, SIMILAR TO THE CHELKAR SITE. IT CONTAINS
SEVERAL RADARS* INCLUDING ONE TOKEN TYPE, COMMUNICATIONS,
AND A SUPPORT AREA WITH APPROXIMATELY 20 BUILDINGS.
TYURA TAM MISSILE LAUNCHING COMPLEX
4.5 55 N - 63 18 E
A NEW LAUNCH AREA (LAUNCH AREA C) IS IN THE EARLY STAGES OF
OF CONSTRUCTION AT THE TYURA TAM RANGEHEAD (SEE ACCOMPANYING
FIGURE). IT. IS LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 2 NM EAST OF LAUNCH
AREA B, AT 46 00 N - 63 35 E. THE AREA IS SERVED BY BOTH
ROAD AND RAIL, AND INCLUDES AN ASSEMBLY/CHECKOUT BUILDING
240 X 125 FT AND SEPARATELY SECURED LAUNCH FACILITIES.
BECAUSE THE LAUNCH FACILITIES ARE IN THE EARLY STAGE OF
CONSTRUCTION, IT CANNOT BE DETERMINED WHETHER THERE WILL BE
ONE. OR TWO LAUNCH POINTS OR WHETHER THE POINT OR POINTS
WILL BE ROAD OR RAIL SERVED OR BOTH. THIS LAUNCH AREA IS
DISTINCTLY DIFFERENT FROM LAUNCH AREAS A & B AND IS AT.
SURFACE LEVEL. NO INSTRUMENTATION IS APPARENT AT THIS TIME,
EXTREMELY HEAVY CLOUDS PREVAIL OVER THE REST OF. THE COMPLEX.
LAUNCH AREA A IS COMPLETELY OBSCURED AND ONLY A SMALL
PORTION OF ITS IMMEDIATE SUPPORT AREA IS CLEAR. NO CHANGES
ARE NOTED IN THIS CLEAR AREA. LAUNCH AREA B IS ALSO
COMPLETELY OBSCURED BY CLOUDS. HOWEVER, THE ROAD AND WATER
LINE SERVING THIS AREA DO NOT APPEAR COMPLETE. A MAJOR
PORTION OF THE SUPPORT FACILITIES FOR LAUNCH AREA B IS
VISIBLE AND CONSTRUCTION IS CONTINUING, ALL OTHER MAJOR
FACILITIES AT THE COMPLEX ARE CLOUD COVERED.
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LINE'
TASHKENT
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NAUTICAL MILES
TYURA TAM MISSILE LAUNCHING COMPLEX
SHOWING THE LOCATION OF THE NEW LAUNCH
AREA (LAUNCH AREA "C") AND THE FEW
OTHER CLOUD-FREE AREAS.
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