NEW REPORTS HINT MYSTERY ON RED'S LUNA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67B00446R000100350027-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 15, 2004
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: May 16, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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ILLEGIB
IJASH. EVENING STAR,
16 May 1965.
Locates 'Landing'
The ADN report said the
phoi.os indicated "that the land-
ing took place in the southwest-
ern part of the Sea of Clouds."
In "Sclenogra;)h coordinates,"
on the ;oternational recognized.
moon chart, "the ccn .,. of the,
cloud w ; :;t , ..ward
eastward tW
report said.
"The cloud :snbsid~d rather
quickly after that and was
bar, .; r v si:blc" six minutes after
it w :t, noted.
VU.
sairi
cca?scd ;i,dcien y. The Jodrell
Bank Radio Observatory in`
England said it never heard a
change of radio signals tn
indicate firing of the reatrorack
ets.
MOSCOW (AP) - Tass, the
Soviet news agency, published
an East German report yester-
day saying the Russian moon
roelcet-Lunla 5-kicked up a
huge cloud of dust on the moon
lasit Wednesday and that it was
caused by the firing of retro-
rockets.
The report suggested men
would have trouble landing
there because of a very dusty
surface.
Westerners had been speculat-
ing that the spaceship, loaded
with detection instruments, had
crashed on the moon instead of
raking a planned soft landing
with retrorockets braking it,
PulNlish Picture
In addiiiion to the Tass ac-
count, the government newapa
per Izvestia published a picture'
of what it said was a dust cloud
on the moon. The photograph
was not clear.
The official Soviet news
agency account was taken from
a report by the East German
news agency ADN from the
Rodcwisch Observatory in East
Germany.
Rodewisch said photos showed
"a cloud of dust raised by thel
braking engines." It said the'
cloud was 143 miles long and 50
miles wide.
The official. Soviet announce-;
went of the end of Luna's,
voyage indicated the rocket had
crashed. The East German
report now raised the question
of what actually happened to.
Lurna 5 If its retrorockets func-
t toned. I
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