DIXON ISLAND

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CIA-RDP78-04864A000100010003-5
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RIFPUB
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S
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1
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December 20, 2016
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December 16, 1998
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3
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Publication Date: 
May 7, 1998
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IR
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Approved For Release 2007/07/25: CIA-RDP78-04864A000100010003-5 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP Jj4 7EL_LIGENC:: REPORT "OUNTRY: USSR SUBJECT Dixon Island ORIGIN Washington EVALUATION OF SOURCE To COMPLETELY USUALLY REUABL? RELIABLE DISTRIBUTION DATE: 4, ' * IT INFO. 4 Febru r r J! 4' 15 MST. I April 1111 PAGES 1 SUPPLEMENT NAVY JUSTICE SOURCE: Within CIG RELIABLE 1 JUDGED OTHER SOUR TRUE TRUE 1. Maps of northern Siberia indicate a Port Dixon on the Siberian coast 6,12t Of the mouth of the Yenisei River. They lead to the conclusion that allusions to i Dixon Island may refer to Port Dixon, :rhicth one map gives as Dickson Mead. The fact that the name is not Russian rives a certain probability to this theory. 2. The TASS, Soviet Overseas service, in an Fn#liah Morse transmission to North America on February 14, 1947, at 7:53 a.m. broadcast the following item: "Members of the Arctic exredition on board the ioe breaker North pole arrived in Leningrad from Port Dixon and delivered to the Arctic Institute collections they gaVierad during their lengthy journey. This expedition, fitted out last autri~,ers reached the 73 1/2 degree of north latitude. They were compelled to euavand any further advance along the East Siberian Sea north-aw-de due to thick icefields. There- fore,, the ice-breaker altered course and skirted Wrangel Isl.~:.sad around the northern coast -- a feat never accomplished. by any other expedition before. Then the ice-breaker guided several ice-locked ships to Kozhevnikov Bay and toward. the end of October reached Port Dixon where they took on board winterera who we[ a replaced by others. 'The total length of the ice-breaker T s journey was some 16,000 miles." ":Fla document contains inform a f P#4 -t.i 4V P national defense r6f the United Stats -i eat th h V4M"1ng of the Espionages Aet O. U, i-('.,, 3"! e+-w, -1! as smemded.,. Its trans mission or tie rev.,. co, its contents in any rn r. to an. rnmh.thh- p 2rson is prohibited by law. CLASSIFTCAT10IV, Approved For Release 2007/07/25: CIA-RDP78-04864A000100010003-5 3 14- -