AIR, NAVAL, AND ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION OF NORTH SIBERIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000200040035-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 4, 2011
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: April 27, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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2. The thole coast of northern Siberia hae been covered b~ nuseroua "aateo-
radsr" atationa. ?heir nmabsr is estimated at sore flan one hanttsd and
' fifty. They assure the assurit~ ot, and aerial liaison in, the trosen
Aretis Oscan, in the direction of the Borth Pole.
DATE DISTR. ~! 19f4
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORIM~TION REPORT
ltlE:1EC7 Air, xsral, and Econosis OrSanisation
et xfyrth Siberis
THis is UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
is not oal: in elsarn of floo~inat'inE all the resovraa of new
ibfria,, bait also in abarp of atut~r of atr~tegio sir ?n4 ta+rral raM~s
in the Aretis, tossttNr rith the sreation and upiaep of poLr. M~s~
iht So~~.et~ ?nthorities still sonattlt Adsiral PapanlA rho, thou. ,>h0
ss~irei in 1949, le a valuable~advissr in all gt>beations rslt
4rMflo stratlp,
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1. Air. Mayor iis>Aerai 1Cutsrq~tsor is tlae Great Soviet Aratis spssialltt.
tM etati 'b^rost, "alasersorput." The authoritt of this paireert~i orpnisa?
flea esteads pPer..alsoat.ail 8oriet territories north of the Aretis Qirsie,
trM Apr >~ ~Mhite Seal to Qape Ifavarin (HsrinE S~a~.
mtsn~etsov~ hisseit~ oontrola~ a ieritable arq, insiu~din6 both ailitarT and
lirilftn pereoraAei, rich a total ot. not leas flan 50,000 persotr. The
polar air fleet 'and a areal r~ naval units sons ruder his Driers,, espesiailt
ieelrseatea~s,,aa~rge ships, barses, aAd vsdettes, spesiall? teaianed for use in
th. Arstis t-couu.
3. Ali air a~ >Naritise inataliationa in the tar xorth are raider ooatroi o~!
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~? Arstis bases are designed !'roe s militant standpoint and with
rdtdrenes to a strategic offensive against the territories of the
~ited,3tetes and Canada. Besides the big aerial banes, xutzrpetzor~s
assistants are ahar~ed xith equipping "floes" (driftir~ islands). These
a1're to IN usdd as supplearntary arteorologis#1 stations. Thq #re #lso
to provide supplesrntar~ posts for neohanical devices to detect svbiaarines
bT an ultra=bonia sTsten. ]lanerous exercises for training (including liaison)
bare been carried out in the Arstio Ocesn. Air squadrons fron Tiksi and
vorkatslc,, which constitute the txo pivots of the Soviet polar front, bare
joined in'theae.
6. The probie~s of enduring the cold and the trainins of speeialised troops
har? not bekn neglected. Large-scale esneurers ?re bald ererp Tear 3n
northern Siberia, and a period of xinter traini~ is conpulsort for partic-
ipating units. These nsneurers a~av imrolre as arrp as txelre to fifteen
diritions at onos. The wilitary xorks erected on the Chukoslp leninsnla
bare amore than a srrel~ defensive character. variotis forced laborers, xho
bare nor been set tree, say that a great carp lamnohins taupe here been
baiit. These are adapted to the use of gaided alasiles. Thee are ai~t
toward Alasln .
7. various SYberia~'~0~~'c~~'~~~'~~1T~~3~'pert of Q~1a:erawrput.
'these includes "Artikugols" {exploitation of coal deposits in Spitsberpn,
9anpr, and Xorriok), 3wpoliarless (ltorthertt iwber), TaYaprstrnst (ooaiination
of fisheries and canned fish industr!), together xith soar others. GL sera~orput
is so or`anised that it asn handle sia~u-itaneov~sly tY-e dereloparnt of ?ero-
naral forces, ?nd at the save tiaw keep open the air and eariti~a eoa^sttilationa
needed for brin6ing out the wealth of 1orthern Siberia.
~c~e?br~i~kers, carp;osk~i~~,
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