USSR RAIL LINE SEARCH FOR ICBM ACTIVITY (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05439A000400280086-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2000
• Sequence Number: 86
• Publication Date: December 1, 1964
• Content Type: REPORT

NP 1 C/R-5061 /64
December 1964 DECLASS REVIEW BY NIMA / DoD-
4: R RAI1 -1_INE -SEARCH
FOR ICBM ACTIVITY
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USSR::RAIL- LINE
SEARCH FOR ICBM ACTIVITY
This report presents the results of a search
for ICBM activity along rail lines in the USSR on
KEYHOLE Dhotol?raohv from
Examination was made of all stretches of
rail line (broad-gage main, branch, and spur
lines connected to or a part of the main USSR
rail network) which were 8 nautical miles (nm)
or more in length and were covered for a distance
of 15 nm on both sides by photography of good
enough quality to determine with a 95 percent
degree of confidence the existence of ICBM com-
plexes with launch areas resembling the soft
launch areas, hard launch areas, or single silo
construction at Tyuratam Missile Test Center.
It. should be noted that the above degree of con-
fidence of detection applies only where a support
facility, road pattern, and one or more launch
areas could be discerned.
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This search has negated, in terms of ICBM
activity, approximately 6,275 nm of Soviet rail
line and has produced no evidence of ICBM ac-
tivity that has not been previously reported.
A total of 23 overlays of World Aeronautical
Charts showing all rail lines searched with nega-
tive results has been prt pared. These overlays
also show the location of all ICBM launch com-
plexes identified to date and the applicable KEY-
HOLE mission pass number on which the rail
lines were covered. Copies of the 23 overlays,
which constitute a Graphic Supplement to this
report, have been forwarded to the CIA requester
and to the TALENT Control Officers of the Army,
Navy, Air Force, DIA, and NSA. Further repro-
duction and dissemination of these overlays to
subordinate commands will be the responsibility
of the above agencies.
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