WARSHIPS AT LIBAU

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000300080005-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: January 23, 1947
• Content Type: IR

Approved For Release 1999/09/08 : CIA-RDP82-00457R0003000
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SUBJECT Warships at Lieu
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ORIGIN
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
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D ST. 23 Janes 1947
SUPPLEMENT
. - za early June- 1746 ~ ie i oiiovinL, vac.r::ihips wore observed in
Libau L arbor:
a. Five Soviet submarines; old .;iodel, approximately 2,000 tons;
ar.t.ed tryith L, 10.b cm ;uri both on focsle and aft; one of them carried the
nuxiiaer 53, on the conning tourer.
b. Seven ex-Uermwi U-boats, "of the type which appeared just
before the %valt er U-boat", v,ere beiri , completed. lhe~ were art d with
a ,four-barreled 2cri iia Gvn on t~1e corznin ; tovr.wr:
c. Three b.aither U?-bo&ts, tv4o of vvhich were not completed and
one of u;hich had already made trial runs. The ov a is are concerned
,with, the sintil radius of action of these boats.
d. Te.ent '-one Soviet :-bo&ts viith one i~?#>rn-n and ono 75mm ;un
forward and depth char ,e: .
k,. I'`ive or six ?-~a.iti? tainesweepers.
f. One new-typc Gov et minesweeper.
1 . Wive ~iovir. t destroyers of approxironateiy 600 tons, armed
V.ith four 1bc:;; finis and torpedo tubc8.
h. The ex--Ueriaan tanker ".. rnter." .
2. at no time was anythiri6 heard of -?dicers servin , on
Sovic t' U--boats .
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