POSSIBLE MISSILE CONTAINER, GUBA OKOLNAYA, USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T04743A000300050044-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 25, 2004
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: July 5, 1963
• Content Type: MF

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Possible Missile Container, Cuba Okolnaya, USSR
(a) Requirement OCl/28/63
(b) Cam'./PID Project C 630-63
1. This mer':orandw is in answer to your recjuircment dated 7 May 19-53
which reeluosts a re-examination of the lcn~'; continei :ear the near vh r1 at
Cuba O`koya, MSH.
2. Reenal- s i s of est c` . ,. h s (CIA 841,9119 and dAlpa
indicates that the cre.te-libe container is 50 to 60 feet long.
The hotography was utilized to eupple .'.ant the terrestrial photography.
The reliability of precise reasureronts is de r tided since the amount of ske
(the enZle of the i*.,.age of interest to the focal al-tine) is zu?:,no>.'I. Ho :ever,
it should be noted that the container is sitting i ediaveiy adjacent to Ja* "
e banaimcnt containing the arch.-roof 'uildi:nz;. phot-O,~-,rra-phy indicates
that this bankrnent, the 4 de of -ref 'I q th front of the
frame building, and the ewS E of S. tt :.: f azo *,.il in ra a3l.el pla .es .
Since the sides of either .a'.' the a t cc ture-_ c cc at-lrcr covId be seen it
is believed that they r -z--, a' - 11 in pl a e ne y? M ,~~~? 31 to the focal, plane.
Since the shades of the contai_ner? fall, c.g ainzt the cV nz..'_ti ant it is ix ia~cely
adjacent to the emb ^1 cnt.This dcv of bIts o wi pmZai ccrSt --Ig ration and
the container ism ? thou;=1t to,, be squ e or sl iz ~oaIte ends of the
container t:'us hl'elieved to. have had a co e- ~ iti is (}J Fw`o lo . i iarIJicna
metrical analysis cc-m-bIned with the ctereolc ; sic ii dica~-..? hat this
shape is probably on the ember ent Ljziadia e_ly behind the cent :x e . the
unavailability of L'he on ina1 .s cr j ed ne-a Sivas substantially de;7,rad.ed the
metrical and photo analysis of this p: o ject.
3. ' `%ai.s container could. ace c? _o Tate a missile such as the ~ .: asscci ted
missile displayed in the Moscow p e. 11o. var it y ou?d seem r.n7L' ,ly ghat a
: s^ile in a s ~wr '7 crate would be located here rather than at the Liearby .
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zile Facil.i. ty {' ~~,o ~d weer Mor? likely a tr - ,.:is
.Gile, an
some type of transporter and previously ehec'ked-out world be scan in the area of
the wharf .a .~ the submarine and loading cranes. Wo missile checkout facilities
were apparent In the innediate area on either photo coverage.
Declass Review by NGA.
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