SIGINT AND SELECTED OTHER ELECTRONICS SITES IN CUBA

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• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
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• Document Page Count: 29
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 17, 2003
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: January 1, 1964
• Content Type: REPORT

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January 1964
SIGINT AND SELECTED OTHER
ELECTRONICS SITES IN CUBA
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meaning of the espionage lows U. S. Code Title 18, Sections 793, 794, and 798. The law prohibits its trans.
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NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTER
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PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION REPORT
SIGINT AND SELECTED OTHER
ELECTRONICS SITES IN CUBA
SC-01395/64
NPIC/R-61/64
January 1964
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Introduction ............ . ...... .. ...... . ........ I
Soviet SIGINT Sites .. .... ... ........... ........... 1
Electronics at AAA Batteries .......... ............. . 4
EW/GCI Radar Sites .............. ............... . 7
Communications Facilities at SAM Sites .... .......... ... 10
Electronics Sites at Airfields ........ . ....... . ..... ... 10
Field Communications Centers . . ...... .... .......... . 18
Miscellaneous Antennas . ..... . ...... . ... .......... . 21
Geographical Index .... . .. .. .... . . ...... ........ .. . 24
References ............ .. ........ ..... . .. ..... .. 25
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 A significant Soviet effort exists in
Cuba, and several other electronics systems
have reached a substantial magnitude. These
other systems include air defense control cen-
ters, field radio communications, radar sites,
air navigational facilities, and certain non-
military electronics. Almost all the military
installations examined--whether small units
such as certain AAA batteries with FIRECAN
or large installations such as airfields--proved
to have their own communication capability, this
being the case even when the gun battery, SAM
site, or radar site was located in a strong
electronics environment.
Since this report was prepared in response
to NSA requests for photographic evaluation of
suspect and other specified electronics
sites in Cuba, it concentrates primarily on these
suggested areas and does not represent com-
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EIGHT sites, as well as a possible FIX FOUR
site. have been identified throug
Although none of these sites had been de-
tected earlier, identification of FIXEIGII"I'sites
at the Holguin (Figure 1) and Remedios military
A11 are high-frequency direction-finding
(IIF' O)F) facilities of Soviet design.
camps on low-altitude photography of
plete or exhaustive coverage of the entire is-
land. Nevertheless, initial search of even this
sharply limited area revealed such a great
variety of antennas and other electronics equip-
ment that it was deemed expedient to report the
results under a number of convenient subhead-
ings, within each of which at least one site could
be analyzed and presented in maximum detail.
The yield obtained by this approach is still more
than sufficient to demonstrate that the density of
antennas and electronics vans per site substan-
tially exceeds the number previously realized.*
Other than the list of suspect locations, no
collateral intelligence has been utilized in this
report. Special mention is made of this since
conclusions obtained purely from photography
need not necessarily coincide with concepts
derived from other sources.
usually not identifiable on high-altitude photog-
raphy but detectable should further low-altitude
photography become available.
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caused certain other areas to be reexam-
fined. As a result, another site was confirmed
near Guayabal and probable sites detected at both
the Artemisa military camp and the 13ejucal
military area. Also, a possible FIX FOUR an-
tenna array was observed at the Caraballo
radar site.
It is believed that this experience suggests
the probable existence of other such, sites,
*One such subtopic, international communications and
broadcast facilities, reached such proportions that it has
heen issued as a separate report. 1;'
"For example, a US Navy photograph [No 710753, captioned
"Russian Trawler VEGA on East Coast in April" (UN-
CLASSIFIED) I of I and ECM vans placed intact. on
the docks of a Soviet trawler shows that a single SIGINT
van may contain medium frequency DF loops, NEPTUNE,
WATCH DOG, and yagi-type VHF antennas, while an ECM
van may contain three BRICK MOUND/BRICK SQUARE or
CHUCK LUCK antennas.
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