SEARCH FOR MICROWAVE TOWERS ON THE KOLA PENINSULA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05439A000300310053-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 2000
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: April 29, 1964
• Content Type: MF

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 DECLASSIFICATION REVIEW BY NIMA / DoD
TCS 1900/61+-KH
WEB 229/64
29 April 1964
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) RANDUM FOR: Chief, Forces Division, ORR
AT1' =ON :
THROUGH: Chief, Requirements Branch, Reconnaissance Group, CGS
FROM: Chief, CIA/PID (NPIC)
SIMJECT: Search for Microwave Towers on the Kola Peninsula
(a) Requirement C-RR-1+-81,296
(b) CIA/PID Project c 688-64
1. This memorandum is in response to your requirement dated-16 April
1961 which requests a 100 nautical mile search north and south of the
Taybola IRBM Launch Complex for evidence of mic owave towers similar to the
one identified in this area on KEYHOLE Mission This microwave tower
is located. on the top of a hill near Taybola at 68-27-OON 33-23-OOE and
consists of two circular appearing objects placed at the top of~a lattice
2. A search north and south of Taybola was made for evidence of addi-
tional microwave towers and the results will be subsequently described.
However, it should be mentioned at this point that coverage of most of the
area in question is limited Because of this, the identi-
fication of microwave towers becomes very tenuous since structures of this
size are visible only on the very best stereo photography and even then do
not reveal many significant details. For the aforementioned reasons, such
items as tower measurements and descriptions of structural components are
impossible to obtain from this photography.
3. As a result of this search the following statements can be made:
(a) A probable tower was identified on top of a hill near Monchegorsk
at 67-54-OON 32-56-OOE, approximately 50 nautical miles south-southwest of the
Put- s It a ars similar in size to the one near Taybola;
(b) Roads lead to anumber of hilltops near Kandalaksha (67-lON
32-25E); however, towers could not be identified on available photography.
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(c) To the north of Taybola there are many small items that
might be microwave towers but are not identifiable as such due to the small
scale of the coverage.
(d) Throughout the entire search area numerous communication
facilities are visible, anyone of which might have as a component a micro-
wave tower.
4. The appearance of two circular objects at the top of the tower near
Taybola and the location of the tower near the main Murmansk- Leningrad rail-
road suggests that it could function as a portion of a major microwave line
connecting M= Tsk with other portions of the USSR.
5. The photo analyst on this project is who may be contacted
on extension 2079 should you have any further questions concerning this project.
6. This project is considered to be
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