CABLE TO SSO DIA WASH DC FROM NPIC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04549A000600020007-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2007
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: February 28, 1968
• Content Type: CABLE

Approved For Release 2007/02/28: CIA-RDP78BO4549AO00600020007-7
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AS TITLED ABOVE, FOR BOTH ACOUISITIO'd AND
REPORTING PURPOSES.
2. THE SONGJON-PANDO NAVAL BASE AND MISSILE SUPPORT FACILITY
WAS DETERMINED TO ENCOMPASS THREE PREVIOUSLY TARGETED AREAS:
MUNCHON NAVAL BASE NORTHEAST (SONGJON-MAN NAVAL BASE) q 39 22 OJN-
127 27 15E; PANDA-RI NAVAL FACILITY, 39 22 OSN- 127 26 28E; AND,
PANJA- I NAVAL INSTALLATION, 39 21 45N-127 25 15E. ALTHOUGH THESE
THREE INSTALLATIONS ARE NOT CONSIGUOUS, IT WAS
DETRERMINED THAT THEIR INTERRELATIIONSHIP OF FUNCTION AS WELL
AS CLOSE PROXIMITY OF THE INSTALLATIONS TO ONE ANOTHER DICTATED A
SINGLE TARGET NAME WITH THE COMPONENTS OF EACH DESCRIBED AS TO
FUNCTION WITHIN THE MAIN COMPLEX.
3. THE THREE AREAS COMPRISING THE SONGJON-PANDO NAVAL BASE AND
MISSILE SUPPORT FACILITY ARE: THE OPERATING AREA, FORMERLY
DESIGNATED MUNCHON NAVAL BASE NORTHEAST, WHICH HAS A FINGER PIER AND
SUPPORT BUILDINGS ADEPUATE TO SUPPORT A PATROL BOAT SQUADRON;
THE UNDERGROUND PATROL BOAT PEN, FORMERLY PANJA-RI NAVAL FACILITY,
WHICH IS COMPRISED OF A WATER LEVEL TUNNEL, AND PROBABLE MISSILE
CHECKOUT/LOADING FACILITIES FOR THE SSiJ-2 MISSILE; AND A NAVAL
MISSILE STORAGE AREA, FORMERLY THE PANDA-RI NAVAL INSTALLATION
WHICH PROVIDES STORAGE FOR CRATED SSN-2 MISSILES.
4. HISTORICAL REVIEW OF AVAILABLE PHOTOGRAPHY INDICATES THAT
CONSTRUCTION OF THE UNDERGROUND PATROL BOAT PEN, THE NAVAL MISSILE
STORAGE AND THE TUNNELS AT THE OPERATING AREA BEGAN IN 1962 AND
PROCEEDED CONCURRENTLY, APPARENTLY REACHING OPERATIONAL STATUS
DURING 1967.
5. KOMAR PTG WERE BASED AT THE MUNCHON NAVAL BASE WONSAN
(39 18 19N-127 23 54E) AS EARLY AS JUNE 1965. ALSO 25X1
REVEALED A PROBABLE KOMAR PTG STERN-TO ADJACENI- 10 ME WAItX LEVEL
ENTRANCE AT THE SONGJON-PANDO UNDERGROUND PATROL BOAT PEN IPJ THE
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FALL OF 1967.
6. THE NKN ACQUISITION OF AT LEAST 7 KOMAR PTG (4 OF WHICH
WERE OBSERVED AS EARLY AS SUMMER 1965) SUGGEST THAT SONGJON-PA!1DO
NAVAL BASE WAS CONSTRUCTED AS A KOMAR PTG BASE.
7. HENCEFORTH THE NPIC WILL REPORT THESE INSTALLATIONS UNDER
THE NAME, COORDINATES AND BE NUMBER AS CITED IN PARAGRAPH ONE
ABOVE.
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