POTI CRUISE-MISSLE LAUNCH SITES USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05439A000400340019-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 10, 2012
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: January 1, 1965
• Content Type: REPORT

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NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTER
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Title:
Poti Cruise-Missile
Launch Sites, USSR
Geo Coords:
42-ION 4L-39E
NPIC Target No:
None
References: DIA. USATU, Series 200, Sheet 0324-1511L, 3d ed, May 63, scale 1:200,000 (S)
NPIC Project 12039/4
A search for electronic/conununications
facilities within 25 'nm of the previously reported
cruise-missile site 2. nnr north of Poti I
has revealed another c raise-missile site
this. one 2 nm south of Poti
- at 42-06N 41-41E (Figure t). -Both sites are
covered by good-quality but monoccopic photog-
- raphy, and the limitations of nonstereoscopic
photo analysis are such that no antennas or
related equipment can be positively identified
at either of these sites. It is therefore not
feasible to definitely confirrn.or deny, as re-
quested, the possible radar components at
the previously known site.
:As noted in' the earlier report, there is
a possible canvas-covered radar tower in the
northern revetment of the previously known
bite. it is apparently similar to radar towers
which have been observed on large-scale photog-
raphy of cruise-missile sites in Cuba 2/ and
is clearly not an R-40C) (MER(LJRY GR:\SS)
communications tower. Ilowever, no further
details are possible nor can definite heiglu:
dimensions be obtained, as the tower's shadow
is almost indistinguishable from otlier ground'
shadows.
Although no definite radar or electronic/
coniniunications- facilities were observed at the
new cruise-missile site, a masonry tower which
could possibly contain such equipment is situated
directly behind one of the launch positions. A
similar-appearing tower is also visible at the
previously known site, but its location there is
to the south of the launch positions although
still within the apparent security perimeter.
Beyond the fact that these masonry towers are
40 feet high--much larger than the possible
radar towers--no further details are discernible
nor is their probable function aQparpnt.
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