PROBABLE TRAINBORNE COMMAND POST FAR EAST HIGH COMMAND OF FORCES (SANITIZED)

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
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• Publication Date: January 13, 1984
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1. SIGNIFICANCE: IMAGERY OF (REVEALED THE FIRST 25X1
E IDENCE OF MOVEMENT OF THE FAR EAST HIGH COMMAND OF FORCES
(HCF) PROBABLE TRAINBORNE COMMAND POST (TBCP). THE TRAIN IS
STATIONED AT THE FAR EAST HCF THEATER OF MILITARY OPERATIONS
(TVD) HEADQUARTERS COMPLEX IN ULAN-UDE, TRANS-BAIKAL MILITARY
DISTRICT (GRAPHIC 1). THIS IS THE SECOND TRAIN TO BE
ASSOCIATED WITH A MOBILE COMMAND POST ROLE AND THE FIRST TBCP
STAGING FACILITY IDENTIFIED WITHIN THE SOVIET UNION. ANOTHER
TBCP IS IN THE WESTERN USSR, BUT ITS STAGING FACILITY
(GARRISON LOCATION) IS UNIDENTIFIED. (SWN)
2. REMARKS: THE TRAIN CONSISTING OF 18 RAILCARS, REMAINED
STATIONARY FROM WHEN IT WAS FIRST IMAGED, 25X1
UNTIL (GRAPHIC 2). BY NINE OF THE 25X1
RAILCARS HAD DEPARTED (SEE GRAPHIC 2 INSET). THE RAILCARS
REMAINED OUT OF GARRISON UNTIL SOMETIME BETWEEN 25X1
AND WHEN THE NUMBER OF CARS WAS AGAIN 18. 25X1
THE STAGING FACILITY IS A REVETTED RAIL SPUR 25X1
24 METERS WIDE AND 393 METERS LONG ON WHICH THE TRAIN IS
PARKED. THE HCF COMPLEX (GRAPHIC 2) WAS CONSTRUCTED DURING
THE 1979-82 TIME FRAME AND CONSISTS OF THE STAGING FACILITY,
A HEADQUARTERS AREA, A HELIPAD, A RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SITE,
AND AN INDEPENDENT SECURITY AND SERVICES REGIMENT WHICH WOULD
ESTABLISH FIELD COMMAND POSTS. THIS COMPLEX WAS COLLOCATED
WITH AND FORMERLY A PART OF ULAN-UDE 9TH RVGK SIGNAL BRIGADE
AL-3 ONE IL-22 COOT AIRBORNE COMMAND POST 25X1
MOD IS STATIONED AT ULAN-UDE EAST AIRFIELD 25X1
7 NM NW OF THE HCF COMPLEX. (SWN)
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PROBABLE TRAINBORNE COMMAND POST
FAR EAST HIGH COMMAND OF FORCES
ULAN-UDE, USSR SWN
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Z-17252/84
NPIC/IEG (01/84)
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3. COORDINATES 51-50-50N 107-53-40E (S)
4. COLLATERAL: DIADIN 75-1A. USSR: MILITARY LEADERSHIP
D~ELOPMENTS IN SOVIET FAR EAST (U), 16 MARCH 1979 (S)
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