PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM

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• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2000
• Sequence Number: 74
• Publication Date: June 27, 1956
• Content Type: IM

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This report is for record purposes only. It records the
completion of a Photographic Intelligence Memorandum titled
"Prelitinary Report - Project classified Top.
-Secret? 'CIA Gontrol.Ho. is 70990.
The,re0ort is concerned:with several Installations In
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detailed analzt _ s could be made of the photogrenhs if certain photo
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day. In the-absence of such data, no attempt was made to determine
.cff pie objects.
covered by pictures A, 13, C, and D ia in what was former3.y the
-7-71unishiCorrider.- The town of Pechenga (!et) is about 32 kilometers (Ivi)
from th Soviet-Norwegian borders? It is about 95 km northwest of Murmansk
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about 290L1nirmwth-northwest of Kanda1aksaba.
Th 3.ocatons of items number443. -"2" and "3" are precisely plotted on the
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Sketch. Item No. is also Shawn, but since no vertical
has yet been found of that particular area, it is notjOgated quite
DO orec as the other two.
Item No. n1/2 annears to be an antennae farm, Possibly two rhombic arrays.
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lathoutMcoverage it is not knOwn whether this installation is new. Neither
:is it known, whether the military type area to the south is a post-war camp or
-a former Finnish installation. The geographic coordinates from the center of
Item No. nlo are 69=;31-35N and 3119-.20E. The orientation of the arrays has
been Precisely determined, but the- side which is most nearly parallel with
the bottom. of the picture is in a north-south direction. The other appears to be
oriented ola- line between Murmansk *and Pechanga?
Itcp41To? nu appears to be a grid news* similar to the, ground-to-altr
sites that have been noted la the lioacosr. =Otto There are three
roads and seven transverse. roadi, all of %Meth have recently been
of aniair. The oomplez is approximately 875 feet long; 500 feet wide
end, and 300 feet wide. at the narrow end. The oft-ent.er road is on
of approximately 3400 from true north. ? The approximate geographic
tee at the center -,oftho grid are 69-3145N and' 3:c-a6-54E. The
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across the main- higinraY from the road network Is directly in. line
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Imaged as min%-tlime pizotograpby awl It is Impossible to tell whether
C! not any new 1:0!zi1dingite *MI as a wro.No* bordoer, have been added.
30 la la group of six objects that are darner in appearance to
-pektans used V the Soviets for power transmission lines. The location
grougliisg, however, indicate that they are for same other purpose. It is
that they constitute another antennae array. These objects were not
on.photograpby. They are located near the top of -a hill over.
the Pechenga River. Treefoi.have been c3.efalied:fram-- the area since
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