CABLE TO AFSSO USAF FROM OPCEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04558A000900010069-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Sequence Number: 69
• Content Type: CABLE

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IS FROM THE CIA/PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE DIVISION. CITE CIA-P 035.
A PROBABLE H-SHAPED RADAR SITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION, NEWLY
IDENTIFIED FROM MISSION 1011-1 (OCT 64), IS LOCATED ADJACENT
KERSTOVO AIRFIELD AT 59-28-40N 028-49-3OE, 53 NAUTICAL MILES
SOUTHWEST OF LENINGRAD, USSR.
THE SITE CONSISTS OF SEPARATE OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT AREAS
CONNECTED BY ROAD AND CABLE. FACILITIES IN THE SUPPORT AREA
APPEAR COMPLETE AND CONSIST OF APPROXIMATELY 25 STRUCTURES. THE
OPERATIONS AREA, IN AN APPROXIMATE MID STAGE OF CONSTRUCTION,
CONSISTS OF A CENTRAL STRUCTURE AND CONSTRUCTION STARTS FOR AT
LEAST 5 ELEVATED RADAR POSITIONS AND 3 POSSIBLY NON-ELEVATED POSITIONS.
WHEN COMPLETE, THE SITE WILL PROBABLY RESEMBLE THE KAMYSHIN AND
ALEKSANDROV GAY H-SHAPED RADAR SITES (CITE CIA-P-022).
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THREE H-SHAPED RADAR SITES WERE PREVIOUSLY REPORTED IN THE
BALTIC AREA NEAR VESKITAGUSE, JOHVI, AND iiARVA, SEE NPIC/R-322/64,
MAY 1964. THE H-SHAPED RADAR SITES IN THE BALTIC AREA ARE BELIEVED
TO BE RELATED TO OPERATIONAL SURFACE TO AIR MISSILE ACTIVITY SINCE
SIir1ILAR RADAR SITES IN THE KAPUSTIN YAR AREA ARE SUSPECT FOR
EXTENDING THE SAKI TEST RANGE TO 135 NAUTICAL MILES (CITE CIA-P-
030).
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