(SANITIZED)OBSERVATIONS OF SOVIET NAVAL VESSELS, INCLUDING MISSILE FRIGATES AND A MISSILE DESTROYER, AT LENINGRAD, KRONSHTADT, AND IN THE GULF OF FINLAND(SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00247A001800470001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 2014
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 9, 1964
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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COUNTRY
USSR (Leningrad Oblast)
REPORT
SUBJECT
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Observations of
Soviet Naval Vessels, Including
Missile Frigates and a Missile
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Destroyer, at Leningrad,
Kronshtadt, and in the Gulf
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of Finland
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE
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Leningrad
Three Soviet naval vessels, whose masts and stacks only were
visible, were sighted at the Zhdanov Shipyard in Leningrad
The vessels each had two stacks. Their 50X1-HUM
masts were triangular in shape and were heavily equipped with
radar antennas. See sketch below.
2. An unidentified vessel observed at the shipyard 50X1-HUM
had a low, wide stack, a heavy bridge structure and two masts.
The masts and the bridge were heavily equipped with several
types of radar antennas. She was painted with red lead.
Kronshtadt
3. A cruiser
was sighted at Kronshtadt on
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a 6KORYY-class destroyer, a RIGA-class destroyer
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downgrading and
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escort, a KILDIN-class guided missile destroyer, the SVERDLOV-
class light cruiser a Sailing vessel, and 50X1-HUM
the salvage lifting ship KOMMUNA, near the Main Shipyard Quay
in the Central Basin. The whale .factory ship YURIY DOLGORUKIY
4. A cruiser
was sighted
class destroyers
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four SKORYY-
and the KIROV-class old heavy cruiser KIROV,
at the Northwest Wharf in the Central Basin.
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S. Several submarines [including the WATER TOWER submarine] were
sighted Details were not observed. 50X1-HUM
6. Two large, light-gray hydrofoil boats were sighted west of the
pilot buoy They proceeded in opposite directions,50)(1-HUM
one going east and the other west.
Gulf of Finland
7. [The salvage lifting ship KOMMUNA] was sighted in the Gulf of
Finland about 10 nautical miles off the northern point of
Ostrov Sur-Sari (N 60-04, E 27-00) Her hull was 50X1-HUM
divided into two sections, which resembled pontoons, and they
were connected with three heavy bridge crahes. 50X1-HUM
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