LAUNCH SITES "5" AND "6", LAUNCH COMPLEX "A" SARY-SHAGAN ANTIMISSILE TEST CENTER, USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05929A000600020004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 17, 2006
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 3, 1965
• Content Type: REPORT

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REVEALED NEWLY IDENTIFIED SITES "5" AND "6".
THESE INSTALLATIONS WERE CONSIDERED TO BE UNIDENTIFIED OR POSSIBLY
ELECTRONIC IN FUNCTION.
CONFIRMED THE LAUNCH FUNCTION OF THESE INSTALLATIONS.
3. LAUNCH SITES "5" AND "6" HAVE BEEN COVERED BY NUMEROUS KH MISSIONS
RESULTING IN THE IDENTIFICATION OF:
LAUNCH SITE "5". THE SITE CONSISTS OF A CURVED PROBABLE MISSILE-
HOLD BUILDING, 3 WEDGE-SHAPED LAUNCH POSITIONS, A BUNKER, AN UNIDEN-
TIFIED BUILDING JUST EAST OF THE CURVED BUILDING, AND A TOWER-LIKE
STRUCTURE ADJACENT TO THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE UNIDENTIFIED BUILDING.
LAUNCH SITE "6". THIS SITE CONSISTS OF A CURVED PROBABLE MISSILE
HOLD BUILDING AND 2 LAUNCH POSITIONS, A BUILDING WITH AN ADJACENT
TOWER-LIKE STRUCTURE TO THE SOUTH. KH COVERAGE OF THIS SITE HAS
REVEALED IT TO BE CONSISTENTLY LESS ACTIVE THAN LAUNCH SITE "5".
Li . THIS MISSION REVEALS:
LAUNCH SITE "5". TO THE REAR OF THE'MISSILE-READY BUILDING
LAUNCH SITES "5" AND "6", LAUNCH COMPLEX "Alt
SARY-SHAGAN ANTIMISSILE TEST CENTER, USSR
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These notes hove been prepared for briefing purposes only and should not be used for detailed analytical work.
Their use should be restricted to the particular briefing board(s) they were prepared for and must be considered valid
only for the reporting period as indicated by the date of issue.
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LENGTH OF APPROXIMATELY
ONE ALONG ONE OF THESE RADIALS, AND ONE 200 FT SOUTH OF THE READY
BUILDING. NO PATTERN IS APPARENT IN THE SNOW IN FRONT OF THE BUILD-
ING. APPROXIMATELY 90 FT FROM THE MISSILE-READY BUILDING IS A
LAUNCH POSITION WITH A BOOM TYPE LAUNCHER/ERECTOR. THERE ARE 2
OTHER POSITIONS (200 FT ON EITHER SIDE OF THE CENTRAL POSITION),
EACH WITH AN IDENTICAL BOOM-TYPE LAUNCHER/ERECTOR. THE ARM OF
EACH IS APPROXIMATELY JUST EAST OF THE NORTHERN LAUNCH
POSITION IS A PROBABLE CHERRY-PICKER AND BEYOND THAT TO THE EAST
AN UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT, POSSIBLY AN OPEN SEGMENT OF THE MISSILE-READY
BUILDING. TWO SMALLSQUARE STRUCTURES ARE POSITIONED EQUIDISTANT BE-
TWEEN THE 3 LAUNCH POSITIONS AND MAY POSSIBLY CONTAIN OPTICAL AIDS.
LAUNCH SITE 6. THIS SITE CONTAINS A MISSILE READY BUILDING (APPROX-
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EXTENDING FROM THE HEAR OF THE
BUILDING AND 2 LAUNCH POSITIONS SIMILAR TO THOSE AT LAUNCH SITE 5 WITH
BOOM-TYPE LAUNCHERS/ERECTORS, AND ONE SMALL SQUARE STRUCTURE MIDWAY
BETWEEN THE TWO. THREE SHALLOW CIRCULAR EXCAVATIONS,
DIAMETER, ARE DISCERNIBLE AT THIS SITE BUT NOT AT SITE 5: ONE JUST
SOUTH OF THE PRINCIPAL LAUNCH POINT AND 2 SOUTH OF THE SITE TOWER AP-
PROXIMATELY 410 FT APART. THESE EXCAVATIONS WERE PRESENT APRIL 1963
These notes have been prepared for briefing purposes only and should not be used for detailed analytical work.
Their use should be restricted to the particular briefing board(s) they were prepared for and must be considered valid
only for the reporting period as indicated by the date of issue.
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 AND MAY POSSIBLY HAVE BEEN PRESENT AS EARLY AS APRIL 1960. THE
PATTERN OF A SEGMENT OF THE CURVED BUILDING WITH NO APPARENT HEIGHT
IS OBSERVED AT THE NORT1i LAUNCH POSITION WITH AN UNIDENTIFIED
OBJECT ADJACENT.
These notes have been prepared for briefing purposes only and should not be used for detailed analytical work.
Their use should be restricted to the particular briefing board(s) they were prepared for and must be considered valid
only for the reporting period as indicated by the date of issue.
 LAUNCH SITES 5 AND 6, LAUNCH COMPLEX A
SARY-SHAGAN ANTIMISSILE TEST CENTER, USSR
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60X ENLARGEMENT
LAUNCH POINTS WIIN ;
LAUHCHERS/ERECTORS
VEHICLES 29' LON9-
kf NISSILE READY BUILDING
LAUNCH POINTS WITH
LAUNCHERS/ERECTORS
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