CABLE TO AFSSO USAF FROM NPIC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04558A001200020048-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 26, 2008
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: February 16, 1966
• Content Type: CABLE

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THE FOLLOWING
IS FROM THE CIA/IMAGERY ANALYSIS DIVISION. CITE CIA-P .130.
1. AFTER ANALYSIS OF RECENT KEYHOLE PHOTOGRAPHY OF LAUNCH
AREAS I-2, I-3, AND B-4, TYURATAM MISSILE TEST CENTER, CIA/IAD
CONCLUDES THAT THESE ARE TYPICAL TYPE III-C SINGLE SILOS UNDER
CONSTRUCTION AND THAT CONSTRUCTION IS PROGRESSING NORMALLY FOR THIS
TYPE OF SITE. THIS IS POINTED OUT AS QUESTIONS HAVE ARISEN REGARDING
THE DESCRIPTION OF THESE SILOS AS BEING APPARENTLY
CONFIGURATION IN THE OAK FOR
2. THE FOLLOWING EVIDENCE SUPPORTS THE CIA/IAD
THIS QUESTION.
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CIRCULAR IN IS FEB 1~ 6
25X1
POSITION ON
TYPICAL TYPE
A. LAUNCH SITE 1-2 SHOWED A
1-2 AND B-4. I raa_
B. POSSIBLE CABLE SCARRING IS APPARENT BETWEEN LAUNCH SITES FV~
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C. CONSTRUCTION TIMING STUDIES SHOW THAT IN THE SIXTH MONTH-,T7-p _-1
A PROBABLE WEATHER SHELTERI IIS FREQUENTLY
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OBSERVED OVER THE CORING. THE EST_ - D STARTING DATES FOR LAUNCH
SITES 1-2 AND 1-3 ARE AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER 1965 RESPECTIVELY. A
COMBINATION OF SNOW MELT ON THIS STRUCTURE AND THE POOR QUALITY OF
THE PHOTOGRAPHY WOULD GIVE THE APPEARANCE.OF AN APPARENT CIRCULAR
D. ALL THREE SITES ARE IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO I-1, A-3,
AND B-2 WHICH ARE THREE OF THE ORIGINAL TYPE III-C SITES CONSTRUCTED
AT THE RANGE.
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