PORT OF TALLINN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006700630005-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2008
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 10, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENT'R'AL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage haws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 79l, the tnnsmisslon or revelation of which Sn any manner to an unauthorised person is prohibited b}? law.
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USSR (Estonian SSR)
REPORT
DATE OF INFO.
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1o ray 1955
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1. In celebration of Soviet Navy Day, on 25 July; Alany naval vessels were
concentrated in Tallinn Roads; the vessels were illuminated at night, but
the public had no access to them. The public celebrations took place in
Kadriorg, a large park on the outskirts of Tallinn.
2. During the last week of September 195+ five large cruisers
in Tallinn Roads, and two cruisers and approximately ten de~trp3rers at the
test Quay in Tallinn harbor.
the vessels came and went either earl in the
morning or late at night. a most modern warships were
of the SVERDLOV type.
There are no permanent submarines or torpedo boats based in Tallinn.
Submarines and torpedo boats waiting for, or perhaps undergoing, repairs
usually lie in the ex-Riigi Sadama Tehaste Canals, ex-State Harbor Works
(see sketch on page 2 ).
~+. No landing craft have been observed in Tallinn, except two old German ones
which were left after the war. One of these has now been repaired and is
maintaining a ferry service between KtiiV~.~1r'e (N 58-35, E 23-80) and Vif~su
(N 58-35, E 23-32).
and Paldiski, and that larger vessels are taken to Kaliningrad (sic).
6. Floating drydocks are not being built in Tallinn, but occasionally they do
arrive from East German and Polish ports, and are sent from Tallinn to other
Soviet ports, pres~e-bly Leningrad and Kronshtadt. Only one small floating
dock is permanently based in Tallinn, at the former Sadaas Tehaste. Other
floating docks which were formerly in Tallinn are known to have been taken
to Kronshta.dt .
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7. The Vine-Balti Shipyard has a floating dock which cane Eton Gdynia.l The
type of production at these yards is not known. Several thousand workers are
employed there.
8. As a rule, very fex soldiers are to be seen in Tallinn, .whereas naval personnel
are very much in evidence.
g. Students of navigation schools, when they are called into service, are taken
into the Navy and trained to becoiae nidshipnen. It is not known xhether any
Soviet naval officers serve on Soviet merchant ships for practical trbining.
to ~~sit Tallinn hisrbor, provided they have a valid reason, such as a relative
working there. To gain admittance, the visitor must show his passport and 'bb~ain
an entrance ticket, which is valid for one visit. Otherwise, the harbor is a
prohibited area.
it has become permissible quite recently, for civilians 25X1
Ca?ment; According to sore recent information of mid-October, 25X1
t is lost dock is reported to have been moved.
Riigi - SadasmL Tehaste
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