LAUNCH COMPLEX "B" TYURATAM MISSILE TEST CENTER, USSR
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CIA-RDP78T05929A000200010043-1
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T
Document Page Count:
5
Document Creation Date:
December 28, 2016
Document Release Date:
April 23, 2007
Sequence Number:
43
Case Number:
Publication Date:
September 29, 1964
Content Type:
REPORT
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TYURATAM MISSILE TEST CENTER, USSR
THE COMPLEX WAS IN AN EARLY STAGE OF CONSTRUC-
TION AND WAS RAIL SERVED.
2. THE COMPLEX HAS SUBSEQUENTLY BEEN COVERED BY-SEVENTEEN KH MISSIONS
RESULTING IN THE IDENTIFICATION OF A SECOND LAUNCH AREA B2, WHICH
WAS A POSSIBLE LAUNCH SILO UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
SITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT COMPLEX "B" DESIGNATED LAUNCH AREA B3.
I REVEALED THE POSSIBLE SILO AT B2 WAS CONFIRMED
AND CONSTRUCTION CONTINUED. NO CHANGE WAS OBSERVED AT SITE B3.
BACKFILLED BUT THE SILO APPEARED NEARLY UP TO GROUND LEVEL. A
STRAIGHT-LINE EARTH SCAR EXTENDED SW FROM B2 TO LAUNCH COMPLEX
"I". LAUNCH AREA B2 WAS IN A MID-STAGE OF CONSTRUCTION.
5. THIS MISSION REVEALS AN AREA OF NEW CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY LOCATED
APPROXIMATELY 1,000 FT EAST OF PAD B1 AND WITHIN THE SECURED AREA.
CONSISTS OF TWO SQUARE AND ONE RECTANGULAR EXCAVATIONS. DITCHING
EXTENDS FROM EACH OF THE SQUARE EXCAVATIONS TO TWO UNIDENTIFIED
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CIRCULAR OBJECTS ADJACENT TO AND NEAR THE ENDS OF THE RECTANGULAR
EXCAVATION. (THE CONSTRUCTION PATTERN IS REMINISCENT OF THAT
RECENTLY REPORTED ON I AT LAUNCH AREAS "G" AND
"H" AT PLESETSK ICBM COMPLEX.) AT LAUNCH AREA B2, A BUILDING IS
UNDER CONSTRUCTION NORTH OF THE SILO AND WITHIN THE LOOP ROAD.
THE LOOP ROAD HAS BEEN SURFACED. A BUILDING APPROXIMATELY 50 FT
IN LENGTH HAS BEEN CONSTRUCTED IN AN EXCAVATION ON THE SOUTH SIDE
OF THE ACCESS ROAD. A NEW ROAD IS BEING GRADED TO A POINT APPROXI-
MATELY 470 FT SOUTH OF THE SILO, WHERE IT TERMINATES AT AN UNIDENTI-
FIED OBJECT.
AT LAUNCH AREA B3, A SMALL BUILDING ADJACENT TO THE READY
BUILDING HAS BEEN EARTH-MOUNDED SINCE
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TYURATAM MISSILE TEST CENTER, USSR
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