CABLE FROM NPIC TO FACPAC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B03826A000200010055-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 5, 2008
• Sequence Number: 55
• Publication Date: May 26, 1970
• Content Type: CABLE

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T O P S E C R E T TTTTT (CITE NPIC 8592
WARNING NOTICE -- SENSITIVE SOURCES ANA METHODS INVOLVED/DISSEMINATION
RESTRICTED.
NOTE: GIANT SCALE RECONNAISSANCE OVER NORTH KOREA IS EXTREMELY
SENSITIVE. UTILIZATION OF INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS REPORT WILL
BE RESTRICTED TO ESSENTIAL MILITARY INTELLIGENCE, TARGETING AND
CONTINGENCY PLANNING PURPOSES.
ANALYTICAL EXCHANGE
NORTH KOREA POL
A. F'rraer. R a~Ae~o~~
B.
1. IN ANSWER TO REF A, IT IS POSSIBLE THAT NONE OF THE SEVEN POL
FACILITIES ANALYZED IN REF B IS PART OF A REGIONAL POL STORAGE,-3'f`S~';
HENCE THE USE OF "POSSIBLY REGIONAL" IN THE INITIAL ANALYSIS.
2. IT IS FURTHER AG ~ RAGE FACILITIES AT WONSAN
~~~AND PYONGYANG HAVE SHOWN FLUCTUATION i U
TAL TANKS. AT PYONGYANG FACILITY, IMAGED SHE
NDER CONSTR
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EXPLAIN DECREASE IN TANK COUNT UNTIL CONSTRUCTION IS COMPLETED.
3. IT IS FELT THAT FACILITIES CITED AS INACTIVE IN REFERENCE A
ACTIVE AND OPERATIO
A. MANPO-UP PPS FOUR TANK.UNITS ARE PARTIALLY
EARTH-COVERED AND PROBABLY CONTAIN TANKS. POL RAIL CARS HAVE BE
OBSERVED ON THE
B. SINPO PPS - THREE TANK UNITS ARE EARTH-COVER
A FOURTH IS PARTIALLY EARTH-COVERED AND ALL PROBABLY CONTAIN TAN
C. PYONGYANG PPSI I- AT LEAST TEN HORIZONTAL TANK
RVED ON ~ND CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY WAS OBSERVED 0
PARAGRAP 2>.
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4. NEW STORAGE FACILITY CWONSAN PPS SOUTH ~ CITED IN ~~ ~~x"i!._
REFERENCE A, WAS IMAGED ON GS 2PJ5 AND INTERPRETED TO BE A WATER ~
TREATMENT AND STORAGE FACILITY. INTERPRETATION OF LATER PHOTOGRA ~ _ ~~~!--
DOES NOT WARRANT REACTIVATION OF THIS TARGET AS A POL FACILITY. ~~' ~'~
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5. INITIAL ANALYSIS OF THESE SEVEN FACILITIES IS BASED UPON PRES '~'~~ '
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OF CRADLE UNITS, RAIL SERVICE, AND PUMPING FACILITIES. PRESENCE ~'~~_~ ~.-
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ABSENCE OF TANKS WAS NOT JUDGED TO BE A BASIC CONSIDERATION .~-.
BECAUSE IDENTIFICATION OF THESE AREAS AS POL FACILITIES HAD PREVI ~,,,,
BEEN MADE. ABOVE-MENTIONED THREE BASIC SIGNATURES APPEAR TO BE C r~---
TO THESE SEVEN AREAS ONLY, HENCE THE LIMITS PLACED ON THE REPORT _
AND THE TERM "POSSIBLY-REGIONAL" TO DISTINQUISH THESE SEVEN FROM
ALL OTHER POL FACILITIES IN NORTH KOREA. ~LV~. ~"~
6. REFERENCE YOUR PARA 3, IT IS OUR BELIEF ALSO THAT NORTH KOREANS c ~r'1, "``~;/
ARE CONSTRUCTING MOST POL FACILITIES PARTIALLY UNDERGROUND BY PLACING `Jii., i~' r
HORIZONTAL TANKS IN A TRENCH WHICH IS THEN COVERED WITH EARTH.
THESE AREAS APPEAR TO BE VERY HASTILY CONSTRUCTED IN COMPARISON TO
THE SEVEN "POSSIBLY REGIONAL" AREAS AND ARE NtOSTLY CONFINED TO ROAD-
SERVED, LESS ACCESSIBLE AREAS.
7. OF THE 30-PLUS POL FACILITIES CARRIED BY NPIC AS FIRM (INCLUDING
MINOR STORAGE T PORT FACILITIES) ONLY THE FACILITIES AT YONGHYON-
DONG RR YARD, AND THE GREATLY .EXPANDED SONGNIM POL 25X1
STORAGE AREA NW, ARE MAJOR VERTICAL TANK STORAGE AREAS. 25X1
S. IT IS FELT THAT THERE MAY BE SOME ECHELON SYSTEM SEPARATING
YONGHYON-DONG AND SONGNIM POL STORAGE AREAS, THE SEVEN RAIL-SERVED
PERMANENT CRADLE UNIT AREAS, AND THE MAJORITY OF REMAINING FACILITIES
AS CITED IN PARAGRAPH 6. A PLOT OF ALL POL FACILITIES APP 25X1
TO LEND SUPPORT TO THIS VIEW. GP-1 -
T O P S E C R E T ~~
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