ACTIVITIES OF THE HYDROGRAPHIC INSTITUTE OF THE YUGOSLAV NAVY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006000780001-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 26, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 17, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTI,AL INT LLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
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COUNTRY Yugoslavia
SUBJECT Activities of the Iydrographic Institute of
the Yugoslav Navy
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. The Hydrographic Institute of the Yugoalav Navy has been gathering data,
exploring, and preparing new navigation charts for a considerable period of
time.
2. From 191.5 to the present, the Institute has published 19 different charts of
the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea of which 15 are entirely new, while the
remaining four are old Yugoslav navigation charts with new data appended.
.3, The Institute has finished calculations concerning the magnetic declination
of the Adriatic Sea. This work has boon achieved with the cooperation of the
Adriatic Institute of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Geographical
Institute of the Faculty of Nat'ual Sciences and Mathematics of ~,agreb, the
Institute for Geographical and Mining Research of the Technical Faculty of uagreb,
and the Geo.-Officers' (sic) Institute. A new magnetic chart of the Adriatic will
soon be published based on these new data.
By calculating and measuring the magnetic declination from Porec to U].cinj,
as well as in the Magnetic station near Split, it has been established that
sin ;e 1918, the angle of the magnetic declination has moved about four degrees
In the new magnetic chest, which is to be published this year, this differenc?
will be corrected.
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5. In addition to its other activities, the Hydrographic Institute of the Yugoslav
Navy publishes regularly every month Information for Seamen. Among other 'a louses publications, the third edition of the Us t of d e of the Adriatic
Sea the first edition of which. ap .eared in is preparation. rT
edition of The Pagt of the pastern Adriatic Coast has been published.
6. The first modern hydrographic ship is now being built in Rijeka, in the 3 May
This document Is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL In accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Directt~ of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
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