FOIA
SEMIPALATINSK 'A' TEST RANGE(Sanitized)
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Collection:
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP78T05694A000300010015-9
Release Decision:
RIPPUB
Original Classification:
S
Document Page Count:
4
Document Creation Date:
December 28, 2016
Document Release Date:
June 7, 2001
Sequence Number:
15
Case Number:
Publication Date:
September 28, 1956
Content Type:
IM
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CIA INTERNAL USE ONLY
CONFIDE 11A
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PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
SEMIPALATINSK "A" TEST RANGE
J1)B NO
BOX NO.
FOLDER NO
Declass Review by
NIMA/DOD
GP/I -215
28 September 1956
NEX r U Lvirw oATE:
ALIT; HFZ 7C
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND REPORTS
CIA INTERNAL USE QNL_'t
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010015-9
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WARNING
This material contains information affecting
the National Defense of the United States
within the meaning of the espionage laws,
Title 18, USC, Secs. 793 and 794, the trans-
mission or revelation of which in any manner
to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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S'EMIPALATINSK "A" TEST RANGE
This report presents the negative results of a photographic
search for atomic bomb test sites in the triangle formed by Semi-
palatinsk, Balkash and Karaganda, USSR.
Only one mission of _ photography covers this area. This
mission proceeds generally west to northeast entering the area of
interest a few miles south of Karaganda and departing approximately
halfway between Karaganda and Semipalatinsk.
The quality of this photography is uniformly poor and photo
analysis was further hampered by small scale, snow cover and clouds.
No suspect areas were observed on the photographs. However, because
the above mentioned cloud and snow cover and poor quality photography
could readily conceal or obliterate all evidence of atomic bomb
test sites, this report must not be assumed to eliminate the
photographed area from its suspect status.
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