PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE BRIEF RE SEARCH FOR LAUNCHING PADS AND MICROWAVE ANTENNAS NEAR MOZHAYSK, USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T04753A000100020020-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: April 9, 1957
• Content Type: BRIEF

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PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE BRIEF
INSTALLATION:
CIA/RR-HTA
Search for Launching Pads and
BRIEF NO.:
B-20-57
LOCATION :
Microwave Antennas Near Mozhaysk
USSR
DATE :
9 April 1957
B. E. NUMBER:
NA
LATITUDE :
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WAC NUMBER
153, 154, 167
LONGITUDE:
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REFERENCE: Photographic Intelligence Report CIA/RR-HTA R1-57
REQUIREMENT HTA/SI/Ra./57 Search photography in each direction on the perpendicular
bisector of a line connecting Units 1 and 2 of the Mozhaysk installation
to the limit of coverage for existence or construction of missile
launching pads. Also to the limit of coverage, search the north-
northwest and south-southeast sectors formed by a ]1.Oo/3200 azimuth
intersecting true north at Vysokoye (56%31N, 34?55'E) for possible
microwave antennas. (The remainder of this requiremeft'has been
covered in Photographic Intelligence Report CIA/RR-HTA-Rl-57.)
25X1 D Photograp was searched in each direction along the
perpendicular bisector o _ a ne connecting Units 1 and 2 of the Mozhaysk
installation, but nothing resembling missile launching pads could be
found. However, an installation described in HTA Rl-57 and characterized
as a "suspected electronics installation" is located precisely on the
bisector about 10 nautical miles due east of the Mozhaysk site.
A point of possible interest is located considerably north of the
perpendicular bisector, in the area just east of Golitsyno and some 45
nautical miles east-northeast of the Mozhaysk installation. It consists
of an excavation about 100 feet square situated at the end of a road
leading south from the Moscow-Smolensk highway. It is sited in a densely
wooded area and a building along the road may be a security guard shack.
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Careful scanning of photography covering the area north of Mozhaysk,,
in particular the sectors north-northwest and south-@outhei,et of Vysokoye,
failed to reveal any microwave antennas. Though several possible electronic
sites and several other unidentified facilities were found, none appeared
related in any way to the Mozhaysk installation. It should be noted,
however, that the scale of aerial photography usually precludes
identification of microwave antennas.
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