PROBABLE REGIONAL SAM SUPPORT AND RECYCLING INSTALLATION NEARZHITOMIR, USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05439A000200120052-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 23, 2001
• Sequence Number: 52
• Content Type: REPORT

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 PROBABLE REGIONAL SAM SUPPORT
AND RECYCLING INSTALLATION
NEAR ZHITOMIR, USSR
An installation of unusual layout \\was ob-
served for the first time on KEYHOLE photog-
25X1D raphy of-at 50-11N 29-05E, about 17
nautical miles (nm) east-southeast of Zhitomir,
S nm south-southeast of Korostyshev, and 55nm
west-southwest of Kiev (Figure 1). At that time
this installation was designated as a probable
missile-handling and support installation, pos-
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comparative photographic study as well as a re-
evaluation of the function of the installation. The
very small Scale of the photography, the lack of
stereogr-hic coverage, the great amount of
target halation, and scattered clouds greatly-
limit the amount of observable detail and pre-
clude precise measurements of facilities. At
the time of previous coverage of the area during
World War II, the Zhitomir installation did not
exist. A village observed on photography
just southwest of the present site-has since been
dismantled.
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sibly to serve the AMRBM launch sites in the
Gomel', Ovruch, G-man', and St_anislavjKam-
enets-Podol'skiy areas. Subsequently, KEY-
HOLE photography of permitted a
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