SUBJECT FISHING VESSELS SIGHTED IN SINGAPORE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500490050-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 2001
• Sequence Number: 50
• Publication Date: June 30, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECRET
CENT^AL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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.COUNTRY
SUBJECT
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`B*mt'. Fishing Vessels'SLghted ,Ia' Singapore
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DATE DISTR-3O Jun 54
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THIS is UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
Merchant marine officer of a large US shipping cou.liany
CThe Office of Naval Intelligence furnished the following information
to CIA for. IAC dissemination in accordance with para;raph 3c of III3CID
747. This information was obtained by DIO-31D and was fo.cwarded as
OIdI report 31-59
1. Description: At 0300 on 22 Jeeuary 1954) a fleet of 20 fishinG. vasseis
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in the company of a mother ship were observed arriving
a port pilot in Singapore identified them at the time as Russian. The
ve.?Tsels were about 130 feet long and appeared to be trawlers. The
moLhur ship was-'described as a merchant ship, possibly converted, re-
sembling a Great Lakes cargo ship. She had a counter stern, was approxi-
matel;, 300 feet long, and had three iclend utructures with two hatches
in the well.,deck forward and one in thc eel-deck aft.(eroba ly hull
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visual Signals: Communication by blinker light was.. observed tel:ing
;lace. among many of the vessels, but due to the rapility of the signals
none could be noted. Source commended the efficiency ,:i the sigiiialmen
and expressed the belief that they were exceedingly good.
3. Itinerary: No information was available concerning the fleei':e itinerary
but source speculated that the vessels were coming from, the blesand
wore headinf, up the Chinese Coast. He believed they were calling at
Singapore for supplies and provisions.
L source's ship was on the way out of Singapore at the tine of the
sighting. Due to darimess, nationality could not be observed, but
the port pilot seemed certain of the vessels' identity. The other
observations in this r