HEXAGON-TYPE SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILE SITES NEAR MOSCOW, USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T04751A000300040002-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 27, 1959
• Content Type: BRIEF

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE CENTER
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws. Title
18. U.S.C. Sees. 793 and 794. the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
JOINT PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE BRIEF
ARMY-NAVY-CIA
SUBJECT :
Hexagom~-Type Surface-to-Air
Missile Sites
NO. :
JB- 1002-59
LOCATION :
Near Moscow, USSR
DATE:
27 August .1959
WAG NUMBER: 167
MAP DATA : USAF PC 167 B, 1:500, 000. (C)
USTC S 0167-9833-100A (PROV), 1:100, 000. (S)
SOURCE REFERENCES
1. AFCIN- 1, No. 1223035, 12 August 1959. (S)
2. CIA/PIG B.1009/59, 13 August 1959. (S) NOFORN/
3. Army, SPIR No. 186, 14 July 1959. (S) SPECIAL
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REMARKS
Two hexes on-type surface-to-air missile (SAM) sites have been
identified on, small-format aerial photography. A qualified
Western observer noted a third type of hexagonal SAM site in the Moscow
area. 1/ This authority stated that the three SAM sites are in the vicinity
of the following cooed fates (See Figure 1):
55035'N /
37?20'E
14 nm SW of Moscow
55039'N /
37?20'E
12 _mm SW of Moscow
55042'N /
370151E
13 mm WSW of Moscow
Line drawings of the two sites on which photography is available are
included In this brief (Figures 2 a:~).d 3).
The first SAM site (Figure 2) is only partially covered by photography.
Three launch revetments and a guidance facility, all under construction, are
visible on the photograph.
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The second SAM site (Figure 3) contains six launch revetments and
guidance revetments under construction:. The launch revetments are posI
tioned in a fan-shaped patter?? with the guidance revetments in the center.
The launch revetments at both sites are similar in design to those at
the SAM site near It is reported by the Western
'observer (mentioned above) that the site on which photography is not avail-
able is of the same design as the SAM site near Sverdlovsk, USSR. 1/2/
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