ELECTRONICS COMPLEX UNDER CONSTRUCTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05439A000100240132-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 132
• Publication Date: April 22, 1960
• Content Type: BRIEF

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JOINT PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE BRIEF
(Published and Disseminated by CIA/PIC)
SUBJECT : Electronics Complex Under
Construction
LOCATION: S of Sary Shagan
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This brief, resulting from a preliminary photogra chic analysis,
identifies an electronics complex under construction at 45048'N/73?35'E,
about 5 nautical miles south of an instrumentation and Communications
installation (see PIC/JB-74/60). The. complex is situated on the west
shore of Lake Balkhash ad is connected by road with tht instrumentation
installation
large support area,
under construction.
the complex.
a fenced electronics area, and a possible bunker
A tall self-supporting lattice tower !s also
The support area cc
buildings, a steam plant,
a motor pool, and a const
ring interconnect most of
A ditch leads from
electronics area which is
T-shaped building, at lea
several other facilities u
connected by ditching. Ii
-radar which has six supp
ntains at least 20 barracks anc other supporting
a water standpipe, several open storage areas,
ruction area. Ditching and othL-r ground scar-
the facilities.
he standpipe in the support aria to the fenced
under construction. This are-i contains a large
;t three smaller buildings, a cooling pond, and
der construction. All- these facilities are inter-
the area contains anoperating mobile
a large possible concrete bunker which is
hundred feet to the north.
NO : PIC/JB-77/60
DATE : 2Z April 1960
COORD: 45?48'N 73?35'E
A ditch leads from this area to
construction several
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PIC/JB-77/60
The self-supporting lattice tower is located severzal hundred feet
south of the electronics area and is connected by a ground scar to that
NOTE: Because of the poor quality of base maps 1of this area and
the scattered cloud cover on the photography, it is empiasized that the
geographic positioning of this complex is only approximate at this time.
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