LOCATIONS OF INSTALLATIONS AT THE ANTIMISSILE DEFENSE TEST CENTER SARY SHAGAN, USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T04751A000300080039-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2001
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: August 11, 1960
• Content Type: BRIEF

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JOINT PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE BRIEF
ARMY-NAVY-CIA
(Published and Disseminated by CIA/PIC)
SUBJECT : Locations of Installations at the NO : PIC/JB-119/60
Aritim'is:sil.e,.-Defeens-e.Test .Center- DATE : 11 August 1960
LOCATION: 'Sary Shagan, USSR WAC : 245
MAPS or CHARTS
A.CIC. Film Positives, Sary Shagan, Sheets I (ACT-1681-60), II
(A.CT-1682-60), III (ACT-1683-60) and IV (A.CT-1684-60), scale
1:200, 000 (TSC)
The A.ntirnis:sil;e IIlfe.ns.e, Test Center in the vicinity of Sary Shagan
was covered on photography of Several intelligence publi-
cations have been issued which describe the numerous electronics
facilities, missile launch sites, and supporting complexes in this area.
However, extensive cloud cover and the lack of good maps hindered the
accurate locating of these installations and the determining of their
geographic relationships. Due to the intense interest shown by the
intelligence community in this Test Center, the accompanying map has
been prepared to present the most accurate locations to date of the major
facilities at the Center. A detailed photographic analysis of the Test
Center is currently in progress,
. The Base Support Complex, located along the west coast of Lake
Balkhash, contains: a major airfield; fabrication, storage and housing
support areas; two major communications facilities (Communications
Sites 1 and 2); one probable linear radar inside an 890-foot building
.(Radar Site 1); two linear radars (Radar Site 2); and, two major instru-
mentation sites (Instrumentation Sites 1 and 2).
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The Range portion of the Test Center comprises the following
installations (see Map):
Launch Complex "A", containing two SA.-2 sites, numerous instru-
mentation areas, several tall lattice towers, a large support area, and
an airstrip.
Launch Complex "B", containing a launch area with one rectangular
launch pad and two paved semicircular areas,, probably launch pads, a
network of instrumentation sites, a large housing and storage support
area, and an airstrip.
Communications Site 3, containing two HF fishbone antennas under
construction, two mobile VHF sites, and at least 12 support buildings.
Instrumentation Site 3, including one 54-foot parabolic tracking
antenna, a 250-foot lattice tower, a possible dome-shaped object 35 feet
in diameter, 50 major buildings, and an airstrip.
Instrumentation Site 4, containing an interferometer,, five buildings
with 20-foot domes, and 18 additional buildings.
Instrumentation Site 5, a possible interferometer. . Cloud cover and
extreme obliquity preclude further identification.
Instrumentation Site 6, containing a 110-foot dome and 24 barracks
and support buildings.
Instrumentation Site 7, containing one interferometer, three build-
ings with 20-foot domes, and 24 additional buildings. A. TOKEN-type
radar is positioned nearby.
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Instrumentation Site 8, containing an.interferbmeter, a TOKEN-type
radar, several instrumentation areas, a support area with 23 major
buildings, and an airfield.
Instrumentation Site 9, containing a 255-foot microwave tower in a
fenced area with two buildings, a fenced support housing area with ten
buildings, an athletic field, and a plowed area 2, 070 by 135 feet of
unidentified purpose,
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Instrumentation Site 10, similar in layout to Instrumentation Site 3,
with one radar mount installed for adish similar to that located 25X1D
at Site 3. This site also contains a oot lattice tower, at least 38
major support buildings, and an airstrip.
Instrumentation Site 11, containing an interferometer, 12 major
support buildings, and a separately fenced probable communications
area.
Instrumentation. Site 12, containing an interferometer, five buildings
with ZO-foot domes, and at least eight additional buildings.
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IMPROVED ROADS
-- UNIMPROVED ROADS
----? TRAILS
INTERFEROMETER
BUILT UP AREAS
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NAUTICAL MILES
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INSTRUMENTATION SITE 3
INSTRUMENTATION
SITE 4
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