PORT OF ONEGA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80S01540R003200080009-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2012
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: October 22, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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1NTELtOrAX
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY
USSR (Arctic)
'SUBJECT Port of Onega
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
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22 October 1953
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SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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White Sea at Veshnyak Island (N 67-07, E 41-23)
fortificatUns consisting of four lar_e_gujbehinipart. .
These guns,were_located along the coast11e it cuts in northwest of..
Veshnyak Island'itte14. All four Run barrels were observed pointed in.a
northeasterly direction, and
15 centimeters. The guns were all of the
50 to 100 meters from each other.
were not fired. However,
only their head's were visible over
was in progress.
the guns were about
same type and were located about
the guns
loamy people around the guns although
the wall, gun practice
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in Onega, only a small motorboat with three or 1
four military personnel aboard. There was a building under construction in
Onega; this building was a factory for the 50X1-HUM
production of prefabricated houses. The factory had burned down in the
summer of 1952 and was being rebuilt on the same spot. The roof of. the factory . I
was laid while informant was in Onega. the factory
made prefabricated sections for use in wooden huts. There was a railway 50X1 -HUM,
track in the warehouse area. Railway cars 'could be directed among the lumber 1
piles by means of a turntable. There was little traffic in the harbor. I
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lying at anchor.
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four__
warships in the vicinity f Ca e Orlov (N 67713,_E 417-18)._
One of the vessels towed a target, but did not observe any firing. 50X1-HUM
Xach ship was about 150 feet in length. It had an overhanging bowi. a straight stern,
one ebeek,andalifeboaton the afterdeck. The bridge was located on the after
edge of the forecastle, ? and the Signal mast was located on the forward edge
of the bridge. There was one gun on the foredeck, and one gun on the after
deck; antiaircraft guns.were located on each side of the ship aft of the stack.
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