CABLE TO AFSSO USAF FROM NPIC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04558A000900040059-5
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• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Sequence Number: 59
• Content Type: CABLE

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THE FOLLOWING IS FROM THE CIA/PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE DIVISION. ~__ Fle
CITE CIA-P 061.
ANALYSIS OF LAUNCH COMPLEX A, TYURATAM MISSTL.E TEST CEN ER
ON MISSION 1020-1 REVEALS THE FOLLOWING ACTVITY AT LAUNCH PAD
A-1: A STRUCTURE APPROXIMATELY 60 FEET - V 'H IS POSITIONED
130 TO 150 FEET TO THE REAR OF THE LAUNCH TOWER. THIS MAY BE
THE PORTION OF THE GANTR `TWAT IS MOVABLE AND RIDES .ON THEn Pa6 25X1
WIDE TRACKS PREVIOUSLY IDENTIFE;`AT THIS PAD. ALTHOUGH_l_S?Aa_25X1
NO OBJECT IS IDENTIFIABLE AS A MISSILE WITHIN THE LAUNCH TOWER, ~-2f"P
THE SHADOW OF THE IMAGE INDICATES AN OVERALL HEIGHT OF APPROX-
IMATELY 90 FEET. A LINEAR OBJECT, APPROXIMATELY 80 FEET LONG
IS POSITIONED ON THE CENTRAL RAIL SPUR BETWEEN THE LAUNCH TOWER
AND THE MOVABLE STRUCTURE. THE QUALITY OF THE PHOTOGRAPHY PRECLUDES
MORE EXACT DEFINITION AND MENSURATION OF THESE OBJECTS. THE
TIME OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC COVERAGE IS 08102 ON 15 JUNE 1965.
LAUNCH COMPLEX
A IS THE ONLY AREA WHERE ACTIVITY WAS OBSERVED ON A PAD OTHER
THAN THE' GANTRY BEING ON THE PAD AT LAUNCH AREA G-5.
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