PORT OF ARKHANGELSK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006400050006-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 25, 2008
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: January 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL. INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of Its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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COUNTRY USSR (Arctic)
SUBJECT Port of Arkhangelsk
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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in the port of Arkh elsk
four naval vessels with pennants
Vessel was low in the water, and vessel had two cranes on
the stern frame; the cranes were three to four meters high and were located
side by side.
was an antiaircraft gun mounting, was removed from the wings o the bridge.
The dismounting work was done by a floating crane which was powered by its
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2. A Soviet Liberty ship lay alongside the quay at Sawmill No. 9-10 and loaded
timber for South Africa.. While alongside the quay, the ship's gun mounts on
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ri The name of the ship was a single short word a _ a n the 25X]
The icebreaker appeared to be new, and 25X1
it was a vessel of about 10,000 DWT, and that it could break
solidly frozen ice one-and-a-half meters thick, The icebreaker had a stack
with a blue ring around it; there was a hammer and sickle in 4 4 i
25X1
25X1
a large icebreaker at 25X1
and they were signalling each other visually. Three or four of the vessels
were very large; they each had two gun turrets on the foredeck, one stack,
and a briAaa
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