1. PORT OF ODESSA 2. SMEINYY ISLAND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007900930007-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2008
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 14, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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? REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the Not%on}1 Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Seca. 793 and 794, the transmission or re'sla n of which in any manner to an unauthorised person is prohibited by law.
COUNTRY USSR (Odessa Oblast)
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
Port of Odessa
Sateinyy Island
1. November 1955
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1. On the extreme right when entered Odessa, there was a petroleum
basin, which daily handled an average of three or four oil.tamkers.oftvarying
capacity, and a shipyard equipped with a marine railway for medium--
tonnage ships. Near this yard, there was a floating dry dock for
vessels not over 6,000 tons. In the tidal basin there were three
floating dry docks, one of the type mentioned above, and two others
which could dock ships of 10,000 to 12,000 tons. Liberty oil tankers
could.eas;ily be handled it these docks. Five motor patrol boats armed
with twin-mount machine guns forward and aft were berthed to the left
of the dry docks. The guns were of approximately 20-a caliber.
Approximately 10 patrol boats of the German type were berthed to the
right of the dry docks. During the stay in port, these
patrol boats departed and entered the harbor several times a day.
2. Also in the tidal basin, there was berthed a cruiser with two twin--
turrets forward and two twin-turrets aft; the guns were presumably 203
or 152-mm caliber. The awnings limited -vrisibility
could not be absolutely certain of the twin-turret caliber. --Four
single 120-a guns were mounted on the port side and four on the
starboard. A numberr of 120-mm guns were placed on a level with. the
forward turrets, and other 120-mm guns were set abaft the after turrets.
The vessel had two torpedo tubes on each side. There were scattered
twin-mount machine guns. This unit had three funnels and a tripod mast
with radar antenna on it. There also were four modern destroyers, of
which one or two were GRECALE and ABTIGLII Classes, two on either
side of the cruiser, and a COLCOO-type schoolship. Five motor patrol
boats were berthect bow-On to the outer breakwater. They were of the
same class as those berthed near the dry docks.
3. On the stretch of ?situated on the inner side of the first basin
entering the harbor from the left, many tracked and wheeled military
vehicles were noted, along with many rectangular cases measuring three
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by seven meters. These ewes were apparently heavy and were marked in
Chinese and English ___________________these these cases were probably
intended for China because various fuel-laden ships departed for China
during [::]stay in port.
The port vas equipped with a powerful eleetric power net for lighting
and motive power. It had modern devices for cargo transfer; there
were few cranes with less than three-ton capacity and these had a
fixed jib; the majority could lift five tons and were luffing cranes.
The modern cranes could lift cargo directly from and to ship and
warehouse, and were connected to current outlets placed at 20 meter
intervals. All the wharves were equipped with water plugs having
a flow of 15 to 20 tons an hour. Loading and unloading of cargo was
done rapidly and without interruption; this was especially true of
heavy tonnage Soviet, hi which loaded material
and cases for China. F
jet aircraft frequently flew at high
altitudes over the city. Every evening, aircraft maneuvered and flew
southward toward Cape Fontana.
6. Along the coast approximately 20 miles south of Cape Fontana, there
were several searchlights, batteries, and openwork towers. The
searchlights had a range of ten miles and often illuminated passing
ship and lighted the ship by searchlight to read
its name.
7. When passing near .inyy Island, bserved barracks and
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guns with fairly long barrels. There was radar and searchligh
a range of approximately 20 miles.,
hips. While navigating during the dark hours along the coast,
observed a few small boats of the motor patrol type which
their running lights when they were almost underneath the
jectiles. The area wars over-flown by jet aircraft. Shipping was not
allowed to pass less than four miles off the island.
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