SURFACE-TO-AIR GUIDED MISSILE SITES IN THE MOSCOW AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05439A000500050020-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 8, 2003
• Sequence Number: 20
• Content Type: MAP

Approved For Release 2003/12/19 : CIA-RDP78TO5439A000500050020-3
Approved For Release 2003/12/19 : CIA-RDP78TO5439A000500050020-3
 SURFACE-TO-AIR GUIDED MISSILE SITES
IN THE MOSCOW AREA
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? SA-1 Missile site
* SA-2 Missile site
o SA-3 Missile site
Declass Review by NIMA/DOD
DIA review(s) completed.
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POSSIBLE ANTIBALLISTIC MISSILE-ASSOCIATED
INSTALLATIONS NEAR MOSCOW
Major construction is under way at SA-1/GUILD
surface-to-air missile (SAM) site E-33 located about
45 nautical miles northwest of Moscow. The building
in progress seems too extensive to be merely an
improvement in SA-1 defenses; it may, therefore, be
associated with later-model SANs or with antibal-
listic missiles (ABMs). E-33 is one of 56 "herring-'
bone" pattern SA-1 sites, each with 60 launch
positions, which surround.Moscow in two concentric
rings about 25 and 45 nautical miles from its center.
A recent` airborne sighting of E-33 provided a'
second dimension. to. previously received ground
1,0hotozra hs (see overleaf). A sketch
showed a. cluster of three bui ing euMi
wi a round object on its roof. The bigger build-
ing is rectangular and may be as large as 150 by
250 feet, while the other two are about 100 feet
square. A similar cluster of buildings in the
opposite corner of the site may be in ah early. stage
of construction.
Site E-24 on the outer ring southwest of Moscow,
when sighted from'the air in 1963, had a similar
three-building'f acility under construction that
may be identical to that at E-33. Its orientation
and physical layout with respect to the capital are
the same, and the bearings of these sites from the
city form a right angle. It may be significant
that construction is also suspected at site E-15,
southeast of Moscow on the outer ring road -- E-15
forms a 90-degree angle with E-24 and a 180-degree
angle with E-33.
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showed two dome structures,
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 CONSTRUCTION AT MOSCOW SAM SITE E?33
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two large construction cranes, and two very high .
.boom-type girders set'at an angle and secured-with'
guy wires. Girders such as these could have many
potential uses, but if positioned in-the launch
area, as they appear to be, they could function well
as missile erectors.
The photographs indicate that the larger domed
structure may be_a steerable dish antenna. surrounded
by scaffolding. Observers, who report that the
structure is about 80 per cent complete, describe
it as being about 150 `feet in diameter, 200 feet
high, circular with slightly convex sides and having
a probable -walk-around platform and safety rail.
The smaller one, also with safety rail but with
-straight sides,-looks complete externally and may 'be-
as much as 100 feet in diameter. No estimate of
its height.can be made.
The materi61 used in the two domed objects is
brown-grey in tone and seems to reflect the sun.
If it is a dialectric material, as seems likely,
they could be environmental covers for radars.
Their-being mounted atop the cluster of buildings
at E-33 makes them even more suspect, as missile
electronic devices..
Should these be radars on the buildings at
E-24 and E-33, and should E-15 contain'a similar
installation, a geometric deployment pattern would
be indicated. The probability that they-are ABM-
associated would then be strong. A fourth. facility
would then be expected in the northeast quadrant to
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insure complete radar coverage of Moscow.
2 Mar 65 DIA 'Intelligence Summary
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