WORK ON THE BALTIC-WHITE SEA CANAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000200030025-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: April 12, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECRET
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Work on the Baltic-White ea (":anal
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1. The work of widening and deepening the Baltic site :yea (:anal wAs pushol Ph+eal
intensively during the year 1953? In certain sectors of the canal, the work
went, forward night and day. Might work was illmainateld by allitmry seelrchlighsts,
the current being furnishe,11 by floating generators.
2, In the sector.. NadvoiW:. end Beloaorsk, eighty labor brigades were organized,
employing more than 3,O,, sivilians. Almost as many ~oviet engineer troops were
1-ode
39 Nine kilometers south of the port of Nadvoidski, a now military hydroplane base
is under constr ction, The locality is completely out offs and is under protection
of naval =its from the lake Omega flotilla. The base of this f 1nt 11a is in the
port of lovemmsts. At the sow tire, in the island of Nliaetsk.~jliifLakeOnega,.and
in the pork of Shaba (south coast of 7.ake Omega) big military raulo stasiais are
in course of installation,
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DISTRI,UTION > STATE ARMY NAVY EV [AIR FBI
This report is for the use within the USA of the Intelligence component, of the Departments or
Agencies indicated above. It I. not to be transmitted overseas without the concurrence of the
originating office through the Assistant Director of the Office of Collection and Dissemination, CIA.
DATE DISTR./,,APA 1954
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