PHOTOGRAPHIC SEARCH FOR COMMUNICATION OUTSTATIONS IN FIVE YEAR AREAS OF THE USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05439A000200040133-2
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• Original Classification: T
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 25, 2012
• Sequence Number: 133
• Content Type: REPORT

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PHOTOGRAPHIC SEARCH FOR COMMUNICATION OUTSTATIONS
IN FIVE AREAS OF THE USSR
This report answers a request for a photographic search of five
peripheral areas of the USSR to locate and. identify five communication
outstations
Where photography was available,
the area within approximately 50 nautical miles (nm) of the location given
in the requirement was searched.
None of the outstation sites were identified nor was any activity
identified which could be associated with the electronic net in the areas,
searched.
The five areas and the results of the, photographic search are as
follows.
Belush'ya Guba (71-34N 52-19E)on Novaya Zemlya. Possible locations
for an outstation are (1) the area surrounding the port of Belush'ya Guba
and extending southward 3 nm to an airfield and (2) a possible military area
at 70-50N 53-44 E, approximately 55 nm south-southeast of Belush'ya
Guba along a narrow inlet. However, haze, obliquity, and small scale
preclude a detailed photo interpretation of these two areas. The photo
coverage is from
Stanislav (48-56N 24-43E). Although considerable activity was observed
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in the area, none could be identified as related to the electric net. The
photo coverage is from
Sukhumi (43-OON 41-02E). Activity observed could not be identified
as associated with the electronic net. The photo coverage is from
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Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (46-57N 142-44E) on Sakhalin Island. No activity
associated with the electronic net was discerned. KEYHOLE photography
from covers the area. Recent collateral reveals
the completion of a' microwave station at Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk which~a-~
reported linked with the air defense district and zonal communications
center at Sovetskaya Gavan' on the mainland (see Aerospace Intelligence
Digest, Volume 14, No 11, November 1961, SECRET). Since military
communications routes are reportedly used in the Soviet ESV program,
the ESV-associated electronic -net could be linked with this new micro-
wave station.
Turkestan Military District. No unusual electronic activity was
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The known military communications center
at Tashkent could be associated with this electronic net.
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