LEVEL OF ACTIVITY, CHEREPOVETS AND TALLINN 'LONG RANGE SAM SITES'

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• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05439A000400370057-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 29, 2000
• Sequence Number: 57
• Publication Date: March 8, 1965
• Content Type: MF

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 . 1. Th:.a memorandum l : s in response to your requirement dated 8 October
1964 requesting; :. nforruation re? ardi.n- the level of activity related to the Chere-
povets Launch Complex, n comparison to the activity at the Talliiu7 Launch Comple
2. This requirement has been partially satis!'ied through persoiial con-
sultations and brief-`n,;;e presented by the photo analyst assigned to thus. project.
These consultations :.nclude the 'ollowin-,:
3. The requirement has also been partially satisfied by NPIC reports 12-852%
64 "Tallinn *24)'SIN Launch Complex and Cnerepovets Suspect Al +i/S1M Launch Complex,
USSR," dated Se tember ly ~, and R-50883"64 "Cnerepovets Suspect M.24, 614M Launch'
Cunplex, USSR O(tober 1964", dated December 1964.
25X1 D 4. Since the last m1 ss' on rel'erenced _ n the latest NPIC report, two Kll-4
missions covered Cnerepoveta however no a ciUtioual missions have photographed
5X1 Di Ima6!e quality -n both cases as poor to t air with partial
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Tallinn since . The last two missions coverinFt Cherim.
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SUBJECT: Level of1Activity, Cherepovets and Tallinn
"Long Mange SAM Sites".
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M/EB 71/65
interference from haze and clouds, which especially precluded observation on
Neither of these latest missions revealed any further construc-
tion progress on the launch complex. As of construction pro-
grees.an the road leading west toward the Cherepovets SAM support facility
cannot be confirmed, however, there is probably no activity on 25X1D
when the ground had a substantial cover of fresh snow.
5. The following information supplements that contained in the previously
(referenced NPIC reports:
struction activity, however, their proximity to the launch operations area and
(a) At Cher'epovets, unidentified activity was initiated In three areas
between. One area of earth scarring, approximately 5,500
feet south of launch site A, measures approximately 500 by 250 feet and straddles
a dirt road which leads toward a sm single street village located approximately
1,000 yards east of the Cherepovets Petroleum Storage Area. (See the.attached
line drawing) The road continues t ough the village and then turns north into
the launch operations area. This.rDad was present prior to the initiation of con-
struction activity in the launch ar a and is now probably closed off by the security
fence. The second area of activity measuring approximately 220 by.100 feet, con-
tains excavation and suspect constriction activity and is located approximately
4,200 feet west of launch site A. is activity is,adjacent to the same road, which
connects the village of Irdamatka with the village east of the petroleum storage
area. The third area of earth scarring, measuring approximately 300 by 230 feet).
is located adjacent to the east sid of the launch support ares. fence. It is sus-
pected that the first two areas of activity are not related to the AMM/SAM con-
the timing, of.the activity requires that.they be mentioned.
(b) Most of the activity in the Cherepovets launch operations area during
consisted of work on the drain a ditches which surround each of the launch
position6. The white objects lined; up along drainage ditches, as revealed by
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the launch complex drainage system-1 These objects are still in place on 25X1.Q
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.no particular rush to complete the job, or a work stoppage awaiting completion of
25X1D essential work elsewhere. The small amount of. work on individual launch positions
during ..
25X1D (c) The latest Tallinn coverage revealed
25X1D. approximately nine vehicles in the launch area., however the photo ualit was not 25X1D
as good as the which covered Leningrad in
and it is not possible to identify them as to type. A few vehicles are in motion,
and most'are possibly trucks or items of construction equipment. Cherepovets was
25X1 D also covered by only one however,
image motion degraded the photo qua.ity to on extent which makes analysis of
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"Long Ike SAM Bites" M/EB 71/65
vehicular activity very difficult.. However, it is suspected that five to ten
vehicles are pafrked in the support area approximately .5 nautical mile Northwest
of the launch areas.' It is.also suspected that a few vehicles or pieces of con-
struction equiprment are located along the road being constructed north of the
village off' Irdomatka. No vehicles can be detected within the launch operations
area, however the road skirting the north side of launch site B and C has consider.
able tree shadow and it is not possible to negate vehicular activity in the launch
operations area.
(d) The available photography o Tallinn and Cherepovets (see Attach-
ment 2) precludes determination of-the exact month when construction activity
was initiated at each complex, though, the period can be narrowed down further with
Cherepovets than it can with Tallinn*-, In ccxtparing construction pro .ress at Tel-
lien with that at'Sary Shagan Launch Complex A, Launch Site 3, PositIlon 5, it is
reasonable to conclude that construction at Tallinn probably started sometime dur-
ins the three month period, Photography
.reveals that this Is the case with Cherepovets, therefore, one must conclude that,
for one reason or anot:rrr. i.-,tN'truction at Cherepovets. wras slowed up by possibly
unexpected difficulty, or that Tallinn was given priority. This conclusion is 25X~D
based on the degree of progress visible at Tallinn as compared with that evident
at Chere ovets. Progreso seen at Tallinn during a sing le month 25X1 D;
is greater than that seen at Cherepovets during all of
During that single month at Tallinn, revetment walls were erected for three launch
positions at Launch 8'te A and for two launch positions at launch Site E. In
addition, curved revetments were added opposite launch position openings, along
the far side of the access roads at positions one and six, Launch Sites A and B.
(e) The following, observations. and conclusions regarding construction
pro;rese at the Ta ltnn-type launch revetment at Sary Shagan Launch Complex A is
believed pertinent to this'reporti
(1) the. construction progress on
the long launch revetment at Sary Shagesn Launch Complex A, Launch Site 3, Position 25X
was at approximately the some sta&e as that seen at Tallinn on
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the Sary Shagan position had
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!construction at the Tallinn launch positions has oseibl ro
to the 'construction stave visible at Sary Shlagan on
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j6. All measurements appearing, in this report have been made by-the CIA/PID
project yet. They should. not be construed-as being mensuration data compiled
,by, the NPI Technical Intelligence Division.
~7* The photo anlyst on this project A
on a tension x^422 should you have any further questions.
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