SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILE SITE APPROXIMATELY 5 NM NE OF DURRES, ALBANIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T04751A000300090008-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 11, 2001
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 13, 1960
• Content Type: BRIEF

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Copy No.
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. Secs. 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 :
Surface- to-A.ir Missile Site
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LOCATION:
Approximately 5 nrn NE of
DATE
13 Icptembe:r 1960
Durres, Albania
COORD:
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FIGURE 2. SAM SITE NEAR DURRES, ALBANIA. Date of information-
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REFERENCE POINT:
Durres Naval Base, 41?18'41"N-19?27'02"E.
LOCATION
Site is located on relatively flat coastal terrain 5 nm northeast of
reference point.
FUNCTION:
Probably for the defense of the Tirane-Durres area.
SITE STATUS:
Probably advanced stage of construction.
LAUNCH FACILITIES-
Six launch revetments appear complete. No launch equipment
emplaced.
MISSILES:
None observed.
ELECTRONICS AND ASSOCTA.TED EQUIPMENT:
Guidance revetment is complete but unoccupied.
COMMUNICATIONS
None visible.
OVERHEAD POWER and/or COMMUNICATIONS LINE:
None visible.
TRANSPORTING EQUIPMENT:
Ten probable vehicles, type unknown.
SUPPORT AREA:
Structures
Description No Stories Status
Barracks/Admin building 2 Complete
Support building 1 Complete
-Support building 1 U/C
Probable security building 1 Complete
(at. entrance to site)
Several small. sheds probably associated with the construction activity.
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SECURITY:
No security fences discernible.
REMARKS.-
Obliquity and poor quality of photography preclude .further inter-
pretation.
MAP REFERENCES:
WAC 322; AMS Series M 707, Sheet 12 IV.
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