COMMUNICATIONS STATION NEAR BAUTA, CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05439A000200080058-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 5, 2002
• Sequence Number: 58
• Content Type: REPORT

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COMMUNICATIONS STATION
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A communications station near Bauta, Cuba, first observed do
photography of is located at 22-5?-OON 82-32-45W,
3 kilometers (1 . 6 nautical miles) south of Bauta and 26 kilometers
(14 nautical miles) southwest of Havana (see Figure l;. The station
covers an area of approximately 340 acres . At the time of the l~.test
photography security provisions included a perimeter
fence under construction, .five guard towers, and five light weapon
positions, four of which were occupied (see Figure 2)~
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The station has nine rhombic antennas (four completed and .five
under construction) . Rhombic 3, under construction, will replace
No 4. All the rhombics are the four-pole type, except No 1, which
is probably a bent rhombic. Rhombics 1-5 are oriented toward Europe
and 6-9 toward South America. In the west part of the station area
.ar=e five stick masts: a group of three and a pair. .These masts
probably support horizontal antennas. No feed or dissipation lines can
be identified with any of the antennas . Antenna data .are given in Tables
1 and 2 (item numbers are keyed to Figure 2).
A cross-shaped control building (item a) is centrally located in
the station area. It measures 190 by 150 feet and the center section
is approximately 40 feet high (see Figure 3). The building is served
by anall-weather road and has several adjacent parking areas. The
the roof of the control building appear to be water-hol g basins . A
. 135-foot self-supporting lattice tower, posSib~y for loc broadcasting
and/or microwave relay., borders the: northwest corner f the control
building .
Other buildings in the area include a security building, (item e),
at the entrance, and three buildings (items b, c, and d) which appear to
be associated with construction activity. Item b is 40 by 30 feet; c,
25 feet square; and d, 20 by 15 feet.
Information on the progress of construction at the station,
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FIGURE 1, MAP SHOWING L OCATION OF COMMUNICATIONS STATION NEAR BAUTA, CUBA.
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FIGURE 2. LAYOUT AND FACILITIES OF COMMUNICATIONS STATION NEAR BAUTA, CUBA.
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Item Height (ft)
Distance
Bete
10 50
140
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12 85
13 8 5
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TABLE 3. CONSTRUCTION PROGRES~
Rhombics 4 and 6 appear complete.
Footings being emplaced for rhombic
2. Area being cleared for rhombics
5, 7, and 8.
Rhombics 4 and 6 appear complete..
Rhombic 2 still u/c; footings not
poured. Holes dug for footings for
rhombic 1. No further work on
rhombics 5, 7, and 8.
Rhombic 2 appears complete.
Rhombics 3, 5, 7, and 8 u/c. Lattice
tower and masts 10, 11, .and 12 u/c.
1\lasts 13, and 14 probably complete.
Rhombic 1 appears complete.
Rhombics 2, 4, and 6 still up. All
bases in for rhombics 5, 7, and 8.
Base holes dug for rhombics 3 and
9. rusts 10, 11, and 12 up.
No further progress. No indication
of expansion.
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Entrance road and parking areas
u/c. Control bldg appears complete.
Fence may be extended to include
rhombic 5.
Entrance road and pa*king areas
nearly complete. T~vo cooling ponds
u/c near the control bldg. Fence
still u/c.
Four guard towers erected; a fifth
i~u/c. Ent^ance road aad parking
areas complete.
Fence still u/c. Fifth guard tofver
still u/c. Cooling ponds appear
complete. '
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Fence nearing completion. Five
light weapons positions emplaced;
four occupied: Cooling ponds
completed and filled.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
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AMS. Series E 723, Sheet 3684 I (Guanajay, Cuba}, 3d ed, Oft 61,
scale 1:50, 000 (OUO) -
TAC. US Air Target Mosaic, Series 50, Sheet-S 0586-6/6MA,
1st ed, Nov 60, scale 1:50, 000 (S)
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