SOVIET BALTIC HARBORS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013200290003-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: August 1, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR (Baltic)
SUBJECT Soviet Baltic Harbors
DATE OF
INFO.
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
2. There were only a few Soviet merchant -vessels in the harbor, and no Polish
merchant ships were observed. The vessels which awaited unloading
included fishing vessels, and
mnerchantmen.
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the harbor at Ventspils, Latvian SSR, was crowded with
merchant vessels awaiting unloading. One ship waited twelve days to
unload., and a second waited six days before she-was unloaded,,
3 Leningrad harbor was also
dock space,
DATE DISTR. I Aug. 1952
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full of vessels awaiting
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