RELEASE OF INFORMATION AS SECRET/NOFORN(Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP71T00730R000500080127-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 8, 2001
• Sequence Number: 127
• Publication Date: January 10, 1962
• Content Type: MF

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10 January 1962
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief,
FROM : Chief, Publications Staff, ORR 25X1 A
SUBJECT : Release of Information as SECRET/NOFORN _
1. It is requested that your office examine the following
paraphrased excerpts from the sources cited to determine whether
or not this information may be released as SECRET/NOFORN - 25X1C
25X1X7 in a special report being prepared by the Deploy-
ment Working Group of GMAIC.
25X1A2g From:
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25X1 X6 "Reports
in the Arkangelsk-Navolok area indicate that a
guided missile site, approached by a rail spur from the town,
was under construction about six kilometers northeast of
Plesetsk in January 1959. The source indicated that, until
1958, Plesetsk was nothing more than an insignificant railway
stop, but in 1958 he noticed a great change; the railway
station was greatly expanded, and numerous sidings were con-
structed on which one could see many railcars. Some of the
cars were loaded with earth-moving equipment. Civilians,
probably technical personnel, were brought into the area. Also
he had heard rumors of a large isolated area extending for about
40 kilometers northeast of Plesetsk on which an airfield was to
be constructed."
"An indication as to the timing of facility con-
struction was revealed in a memorandum for DIA Invest-Export,
Berlin, concerning delivery of cement manufacturing equipment
during 1959-61 to the Arkhangelsk-Cement Plant."
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25X1X6
"The Soviets consider the area as sensitive, as
evidenced by their . . . routing of tourists around the area,
from Chernovtsy to Vinnitsa via Gorodenka, Chortkov and Ternopol."
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"A source reports that in December 1957 construction work
on a launching site for missiles was completed in a forested area
adjacent to Brest. According to the source, missiles and a
'special missile unit' moved into the area at the same time. A
rail spur connected the site with the Brest railway station. He
also reported another launching site which he first located inthe
Lyuboml' area (51?141N - 24?02' E) north of Skiby (51014'N - 240071E)
and Matseyev (51?13'N - 24?20'E), but later put the location to the
south of the latter two towns. Construction in this area was
started in 1957 by a "secret" unit of the Carpathian Military
District with headquarters in L'vov."
25X1A2g From:
"One collateral report refers to an installation
about 18 kilometers from the town of Gusev as a missile base.
Work on this installation was said to have started during 1958."
25X1A2g From:
"Construction of an unusual nature in the Dolina area
was reported in mid-1960. The specific site was said to be in the
Rakhynsky Forest (about 7 miles NE of Dolina) and the security
measures included changing drivers of trucks entering the area
with construction materials, so that no "outsiders" entered the
site."
25X1A2g
"Perhaps the most significant collateral information
in the area of the Mukachevo MRBM sites came from two sources who
stated that a military construction unit moved into a forest area
between Mukachevo and Beregovo in 1956. Construction activity
began with the falling of trees, improving roads and erection of
living quarters. Equipment and construction materials started
arriving in Mukachevo and Beregovo in 1957. One source stated
that the activity reached its peak in 1958 and was still con-
tinuing at the same pace in the fall of 1959. Inhabitants of
the town of GAT as well as those of Beregovo and Mukachevo
related the construction to the establishment of a missile
launch site.
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2. If this information is approved for release as SECRET/
NOFORN these sources will be deleted before
the published report is disseminated.
3. It will be appreciated if this request can be expedited.
The data included in the report is to be used in a January 1962
conference.
25X1A9a
16 January 1962
TO: Chief, Publications Staff, ORR
25X1A9a
FRO14:
based upon the following CS reports
Use of the extracts shown above/are approved:
25X1A2g
Use of the extracts shown above based upon the following CS
reports are denied:
25X1A2g
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