PORT INFORMATION, LENINGRAD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500460244-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 9, 2006
• Sequence Number: 244
• Publication Date: October 1, 1998
• Content Type: REPORT

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Port Inform:~tion, :.,aningrad
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INFORMATION REPORT
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/The Office of NF,.vn.l Intelligence furniohed the following intorm(otioi, to CI!,
for T_AC dioaemination in eccordance with parnerapl: 3c of N-Cl! 17. '.Phil
information wvn obtained by DIO-3N) and was forwarded as ONI report ?6-54,/
Cocuri1: ~ Merchant whip was boarded at harbor entrance by a pilot nccomp^nicd
by two off:ccrs. A umal.l launch escorted the whip. Photogre.phy wac prohibited
and binocul.aru were taken v.way while in port. There wan no restriction on
.;bore liberty for the crew.
?. .Shipu Prcaent: ,,(evert,.l Tlrinioh and Finnish cargo ships were in the port, e.nd
t rei new Soviet battleships" were oighted at Kronatadt.
3. 1iofonce Installations: r:ubn nine note were obf,erved et K:onstadt, but other-
vice nolfortifiiccathone were peen. No now eonctruction war, obcerved in the
harbor urra.
4, Caro Handling: The waterfront faeilitieo generally were good, but on 23
Auguot 1951 an Icelandic cargo ship was delayed ton days in diocharging a
1500-ton cargo of frozen fish by the lack of the neceoeary railroad cars
to receive it.
Retail Prices: tlthough there use r.tuch offered for nale in Leningrad stores,
the pricco wore high. The following io a sampling of Leningrad prices':
Wine (quart bottle) Four or five dollar:;
Beer (glnco) One or two rubleo
(five rubleo in 1948)
Shoos (inferior grade) 400 rubles
6. Miucoll,noous: ;abhtaeoing buooo were provided for the uoo of visiting
merchant seamen, who were given a guided tour of local points of interest
including the Czar's Palace. Thera Wore no reotrictiono in the city, but
the seamen were unable to tall: to the civilifuu. They boliovad that they
were under ourvelllance the entire time they were ashore.
This report is for the use within the USA of the Intelligence oomponenta of the Departments or
Agencies indicated above. It is not to be transmitted overseas without the concurrence of the
originating office through the Assistant Diroc?or of the O:41oo of Collection And Dissemine.tio,,, CIA.
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