PROBABLE HIGH-EXPLOSIVE TEST AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05439A000100350114-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 114
• Publication Date: April 20, 1960
• Content Type: BRIEF

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Approved For Release 2001/03/03 : CIA-RDP78TO5439A000100350114-0
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ARMY-NAYYIA
(Published and Disseminated by CIA/PIC)
SUBJECT :
Probable High-Explosive
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PIC{/JB-67/60
Test Area
DATE :
20 April
1960
LOCATION ;
18 nm N of Kasli, USSR
LAT :
560-12'N
WAC
156
LONG :
60?38'E
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AMS - Series N 502, Sheets NO 41 - 10 and NN 41 - 1 , Nov and Dec
1955, Scale 1:250, 000 (U)
US Air Target Chart - Series 200, Sheets 0156-23A and 0164-3A,
Oct 1958 and Feb 1959, Scale 1:200, 000 (S)
REQUIREMENT: SI/R-36/59
Photography has revealed an installation, situated
18 nm (nautical miles; north of Kasli, USSR, in an area of heavy cloid
cover (Figure 1), which consists *A- series of three probable high-
explosive test facilities (items 1-3, `Figure 2) and a probable "test
staging facility" (item 4, Figure 2). These facilities appear ko be of re-
cent construction, as indicated by several small excavations (item 5,
Figure 2) used for obtaining construction material. It is nof'believed
that these facilities are associated with guided-missile activity.
The significance of these facilities may be reflected by their simi-'
larity to high-explosive test facilitie
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Cloud cover prevents determination of the relationship between
these three facilities and the Kyshtym complex, and also precludes
determination as to the existence of additional associated facilities.
Approximate dimensions of the structures and clearings at the
probable test facilities (items 1-3, Figure 2) are as follows:
Bunkers -- identical in size and shape, 90' x 30' x 25' h w/70'
opening.
Probable 'tanks _ - - serniburied and relatively positioned at each
Buildings -- positioned at open side of bunker, one 30' x 15'
and one 15' x 151.
Clearings -- irregular in size and shape, separ'ated by one mile.
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