NAVAL AND SHIPYARD ACTIVITY IN LENINGRAD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007400680007-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2008
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: July 26, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
another Soviet steamer was a or+id tat outside the basin. There was
a a na1l shinvard or hived ohm an the wast.m quay of the basin.
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COUNTRY USSR (Leningrad Oblast) REPORT
SUBJECT Naval and Shipyard A tivity in DATE DISTR.
Leningrad
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
1. West of 1 ronshtadtf ltithin,., PO 't Xomstantin,was a big building which
had 10 big square doors dicing 'the imt$r. In the water in front of the
building, there vas a row of p41in6lta
2. On 9 May, three subiarimss isq in that lostsrn basin.
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3. N1,rthwest of the entrance to Leningrad harbor in line with ,boy number
8 , a very tall radio mast could be seen0
4. In:+pet,tion was very casual. Cabins were not searched. Fla. had been fiont>
or? Previous calls
At the Marti Shipyard,a large naval $w.st. The vessels were in the, water
at the quay so only the upper portions of then were visible. Therefore,
the sketch of the hull shape should be taken with reservation, There
was nothing on the slipway at Zhdaaw Shipyard.
7. Ube merchant steamer OTTO BCI K13T lay at anchor in Baroehnyy basin and
very 'new and modern.
basin there was a cruiser and a floating dock with the words 25X1
DARZLGER WERFT" painted s Tthe eastern basin there were
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nth :. ould not be estimated because the 'boats were seen from t h.e
On 16 May in the western basin at tadt there were eight submarines
In the central
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10 to 15 naval. crafty possibly destreers; two tree-*sasted sailing vessels
of an old types and a ear vessel painted gray. Outside the eastern basin there
was a floating dock witbout a ism, At the rnadstrad just west of
I(rcn?shtadta the O YAZRiM 7A 17A vas vowed to buays. At a sn a,ll
shipyard visible southeast of Zx+emtrhtsdt,a submarine salvage vessel with
curved steel XiAer superstructure mat sevtml other wall naval vessels
could be seen
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At 2100 hours on 16 Xay, a Soviet NTB with radar in a gray painted. domse on a
snail moat was proceeding on an easterly course in the Gulf of Finland..about
8 nautical miles east of Tall{a? About an bow later, outside Talliam, two
naval vessels, possibly de$ ruyet s,ulere an an easterly couc,cee. They shoved
three lights in vertical. c oluut i'et, tthite, and. alternately red and green..
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with the buoy VbCA they buoy is abeez.
2. Coo Mn, The ssa1 shipyard is probably Oranienbauti and the salvage 25X1
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Sketch of Vessel, Under Conatrwction at ZYu]afcgv Shipyard
A, Flat segment of a sphere
of sheet metal mount'd. on
gimbals. On front,2 crossed
arm which carry a smaller
cylindrical object at the
point of intersection.
Same a ize as or4inary
navigation radar.
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