SHIP CONSTRUCTION IN KOMSOMOLSK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004201140005-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 5, 2010
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: June 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR (Far East)
SUBJECT Ship Construction in Komsomolsk
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of, this form is prohibited.
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 1 June 1954
NO. OF PAGES 1
REQUIREMENT NO. RD 25X1
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. in Komsomolsk in 19489
when one or two battleships or cruisers had been partially built in that city,
it was not possible to fit the superstructures to the hulls
this was because the Amur River channel was'of insufficient depth to,
accommodate the draft of the fully-built vessels. The ships were floated minus
superstructures, to the bay Cpoesibly Sakhalinski~ali 7
during the nter months the
Amur River is frozen over.
2. After the construction of these ships, possibly
a battleship (lineynyy korabi), heavy cruiser (tyazhelyy kraiser), or cruiser
(kraiser)s the shipyards at Komsomolsk
refused to accept orders for the construction of additional capital ships, and
that thenceforth only the construction of smaller vessels-would be undertaken.
These new projects were to include submarines, destroyers, minesweepers, frigates
and perhaps MTBs.
submarines were built at Komsomolsk before and after the capital ship incident
mentioned above.
I STATE ARMY J X NAVY X
FBI AEC
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