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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04558A000800050011-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Sequence Number: 11
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RELEASABLE FROM SSO CHANNELS. SSOS PASS
TO APPROPRIATE TCOS. CITE OPCEN 7164. THE FOLLOWING IS FROM THE
NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTER.
AS A RESULT OF A DETAILED STUDY NOW UNDER WAY AT NPIC OF
ALL IDENTIFIED TYPE III ICBM LAUNCH SITES, IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED
THAT LAUNCH SITE A AT THE OMSK ICBM LAUNCH COMPLEX IS DISSIMILAR
TO ALL TYPE III ICBM LAUNCH SITES IDENTIFIED THROUGHOUT THE USSR.
MAJOR DIFFERENCES NOTED ARE AS FOLLOWS.
A SECOND, DEEPER, NOTCH NOT FOUND AT TYPE III SITES IS\LOCATED
DIRECTLY ACROSS THE MAIN EXCAVATION FROM THE NOTCH CONTAINING THE
CONTROL BUNKER. THERE ARE INDICATIONS THAT A NOTCH ANALOGOUS
TO THIS WAS PRESENT AT TYURA TAM LAUNCH COMPLEX F, AS OBSERVED IN
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THE BASE OF THE CONTROL BUNKER IS CTRUCTED AT THE SAME
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LEVEL AS THE MAIN PORTION OF THE EXCAVATION WHICH WILL CONTAIN THE
SILOS, INSTEAD OF ON A HIGHER LEVEL AS AT TYPE III SITES.
ALTHOUGH THE FINAL ROAD CONFIGURATION AT OMSK SITE A CANNOT
BE DETERMINED AT PRESENT, THE FENCE PATTERN AND THE LOCATION OF THE
POINT WHERE THE MAIN ROAD WILL EVENTUALLY, ENTTER THE SITE ARE MORE
SUGGESTIVE OF A FINAL PATTERN SIMILAR TO THAT AT LAUNCH COMPLEX
F AT TYURA TAM THAN THAT AT COMPLETED TYPE III SITES.
THE ORIENTATION OF THE SHORT AXIS OF THE EXCAVATION IS
INCONSISTENT WITH ORIENTATIONS OF TYPE III ICBM SITES IN THIS SECTION
OF THE USSR. THE TYPE III SITES AT THE SHADRINSK AND NOVOSIBIRSK
COMPLEXES HAVE AZIMUTHS OF 60/240 DEGREES AND 65/245 DEGREES,
RESPECTIVELY, WHERAS OMSK SITE At LOCATED MIDWAY BETWEEN THESE
TWO COMPLEXES, HAS AN AZIMUTH OF 005/185 DEGREES.
BECAUSE OF THESE INCONSISTENCIES WITH TYPE III ICBM LAUNCH
SITES, NPIC IS OF THE OPINION THAT LAUNCH SITE A AT OMSK IS
POSSIBLY THE FIRST IDENTIFIED HARDENED LAUNCH SITE SIMILAR TO
TYURA TAM LAUNCH COMPLEX F.
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