TUAPSE - PORT CONDITIONS: BOARDING PROCEDURE/NAVAL AND MERCHANT VESSELS SIGHTED/PORT FACILITIES/SHIPYARD/SECURITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00280R000100180067-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 67
• Content Type: REPORT

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/06/04
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BO-TOM OF PAGE FOR SPECIAL CONTROLS. IF ANY
PREPARED AND DISSEMINATED BY
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
USSR
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Tuapae Fort Corditionz: B - rdi r- Procedure/
Naval and M.-rchant Vessels Sighted.Port Facilities
Shipyard/security
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cevn:aq of the Esploaage Law.. Title I S. U. S. C.
Secs. 793 and 794. the transmission or rovolatlon
of which' In any moaner to an unauthortsod per.
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CrTrhe Office of Nav-l to*ei7. i. F; nc~ (L'IG 1 ND Ser 27-56) furnished the
follow-in~ inf o_matic?n 'to C;A. f r IBC disseriinatiorJ )cr para 3c cf 50X1-HUM
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Naval Ura t Sighted: SC. ict ._.. . cl ratrcl craft -at ac: rox-
irlatc position .13.-55 I+ ,_:d 30-47 L. This vessel ti-. :rcximately
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50 feet in '_enGth and carried one machine g n forward. It ;.e.^, painted
grey . nd flew the Soviet flag. The sea was ea1 and the s 11 craft
was slowly cruising on a northeasterly heading. ive
l craft in the harbor tied stern-to to the b_cah atcr inboard at
the South .?iolc_ These vessels were about t o. hundred feet lo. with
a single stack 31.cv.1 with the bri ge, shE..rply rake3 bow, and one Gun
mount fo%: and (the guui approximately thrce - inch) and two . t:.-in anti-
aircraft mcutc located a.lon the le ^itudinal axis: A foremast -art was noted over the he bridge.
eight s:_bmarincs tied stern,-to'-at the-pier, which divides. the Old E---or
from the ?icw Harbor- There were -ub?.: nines on both sides of the pier
in approximately equal nu.:-ber. . irey? all appeared to be similar, were 50X1-HUM
approximately of seven or-eight hundred tons, 150 feet long, and
carried single open Gu=_-_-eu_ts forwz rd.? , All ~; ubmarines also carried net
cutters and exhibited .slightly ro.rn_ed. bows and si^ple conning tower
construction sloping to the rear. One or- two- of the boats.differed from
the rest in that they a ppc: ! ed more like the old Gernan U-boats writ': a
rail'n? around the roar of the conning tower on-which a machinegun was
-mounted. At the shipyard 50X1-HUM
in the Old Harbor., vh;ch _s'..