SECURITY MEASURES/SHIPPING/PORT FACILITIES/MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 21, 2001
• Sequence Number: 59
• Publication Date: July 21, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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Security Measures/Shipping/Port Facilities/
Miscellaneous Observations
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SOURCE Two crew members of an Italian merchant ship, which visited Novorosaisk
14 . 21 Nov 53 to take on 10,053 tons of wheat for a 131C port.
The Office of Naval Intelligence, 5ND, in Report No. 26..C-54, furnished the
following information to CIA for IAC dissemination in accordance with para-
graph 3c of NSCID #'rj
Pilotage and Securit Precautions
1. When 12 miles, T, from Doob Pt., we requested a pilot who boarded the ship
alone about two miles, 2250 T, from Doob Pt. and took it to the Foreign Vessel
Anchorage, where a woman doctor boarded it and performed the required medical
examination. After we tied up at our pier, a group of 5 or 6 police women, 10
policemen, and 3 officers, all in blue uniforms, boarded the ship and conducted
a thorough, six-hour search, during which time the crew was required to remain I
in the mess room. One seaman had to accompany the party searching the deck
areas, and another., the party searching the engine room bpaces. A five-hour
search was -onducted ;ter the completion of loading and prior to departure.
The only items sealed during the security search were camerae, film, and re-
volvers. Radios, binoculars, and sextants were not touched. While the ship
was being worked, some guards noticed that several sailors were fishing over
the side of the ship, whereupon they immediately came aboard, warned the sailors,
and broke lines and rods.
Ships Observed
2. Our ship was docked-a' the southwe-t aide of Pier 3 fH-.0. #4217 Nrvorossisk Bay
and Rsrbo7, from which position one could see one Panamanian ship loading oil,
one Norwegian ship loading grain, one 8,000-ton Greek ship loading grain, a
Finnish ship, and a 6,000-ton UK vessel at the coaling pier. We did not, how-
ever, observe names or details of any of them. On the northeastern side of
Pier 3, a Soviet passenger ship painted white was tied uF for one day. Ten or
12 small fishing vessels were anchored in the area between the Coasting ;fnle
and the Western Mole. One small naval patrol craft was ivied up alongside the
demolished Pier 4, and a naval tug was tied up off the bow of our ship between
Pier 3 and Pier 4. Many small naval craft were observed in the Tsemes 5i river
Condenser Basin L.A. 162 rev. 1952 Novorossiak Bail.
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Port Fac .1lties
3. At Pier 3 our ship took on its load of grain in one day, five hours and 40
minutes, for which operation four-oLutea *iere used simultaneously. Silos
on shire used to store grain were of very old construction, a date on the
building reading 1899. Workers who were employed in hand trimming the ship aw>
oftioiemt and is the 20 to 25-year-old age group, and a number were women.
We saw rue floating crane, a buoy-lifting, short-arm type of about 20 tons$
capacity, which was uried in lifting aboard our chip an anchor and chain of
about four tons which bad been abandoned in the harbor by another Italian
merchant vessel. The radio beacon at Doob Pt. was very effecttve. At the
foot of Pier 3 was a small store which supplied ship's provisions, but we
did not purchasm any.
4. The draft of our ship on entering the harbor was 13 feet maximum, and on
leaving - 29 feet maximum. We noted one green light on the southwest tip
of Pier 3 (on the r polite corner of the pier to that indicated on L.A.
chart No. 162). Close to this light was a searchlight, and at the wnd of
the pier on the northeast aide was a etorm signal tower. This tower was
located on top of the transit shed, which was of now cement construction
with a red colored corrugated iron roof. Under the' grain hoppers supplying
the ship were stowed on the open dock many `rolls of black roofing 31epsr,
quantities of battening timber, and large numbers of wood barrels each con-
taining about"300.1iters of wine..
Misoellanebue
5. We o ae ary rev street lights. Homer. for officials were said to be
located :.bout two blocks northeast of the place designated St. Nikolai Ch.
on H.O. chart 4217.. The agints who spoke English well had an office at.the
foot of the Petra Pier L$.0. 42117. The Rdrbor 4aater requeuted the ship's
B.A. chart of Novorooaiek, which request, however, was not granted.
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