PORT OF LEPAYA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007900790005-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 5, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 13, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

25X1 A Approved For:ReleQWt
COUNTRY U,5"'R (Da.ltic)
SUBJECT : cr t: cif Lepaya
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DATE O1STR,.3, Aug 51
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1. Turing the a'atu:nna and wintea o. 1919, cargoes sent by sea to Soviet ports
or. the Gulf o l' Finland. were Pre'.. iueiitl y unloaded at - Lepay^ be cause of the
In mid--7o-x ether 1950, when e inter again closed .in on, the Gulf of Finlands
a Danish shipping-, company r i `.ch was under contract to deliver several
cargoes to ovie4- ports in the area suggt:sted that it resuno the ,}.ractice
o un7.oaclin at epaya The 3u;'gostion was refused by the Soviet
author-
V ies w shout explanaticn . 1;1
'he 7:anisl'i shipping inn was told to postpone
calls at ovict ports in the. area until. the spring of 1951, when the
ports tc, which the shipments e ere originally assigned ceulo.. again be
The evict re :sisal to peraii Danish ships to use the port of. Lepaya nay -
be due t,c the foot that th(: he, )or at Lepaya is used extensively, as a
base or soviet 'Savy vessel:: during the winter months,
Approved For Release 2001/03/06 CIA-RDP82 00.457