DIXON ISLAND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500730004-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 4, 2003
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: November 11, 1998
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GR
Iy T ELLIGENCE REPORT
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DATE:
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DISi. :9 April 1947
PAGES 1
SUPPLEMENT
1. Maps of northern Siberia Indicate a Port Dixon on the Siberian coast east of
the mouth of the Yenisei Rirrer. They lead to the conclusion that allusions to a
Dixon Island may refer to Port Dixon, which one map gives as Dickson Head. The
fact that the name is not Russian gives a certain probability to this theory.
2. The TASS, Soviet overseas Service, in an English Morse transmission to North
America on February 14, 1947, at 7:53 a.m. EST, broadcast the following item:
"Members of the Arctic expedition on board the ice breaker North Pole
arrived in Leningrad from Port Dixon and delivered to the Arctic
Institute collections they gathered during their 1_gthy journey.
This expedition, fitted out last summer, reached the 73 1/2 degree of
north latituds. They were compelled to suspend any further advance
along the East Siberian Sea northwards due to thick icefields. There-
fore, the ice-breaker altered course and skirted Virangel Island around
the northern coast --- a feat never accomplished by any other expedition
before. Then the ice breaker guided several ice-locked ships to
icozhevnikov Bay and toward the end of October reached Port Dixon where
they took on board erinterers who were ropl1ced by others. * The total
length of the ice-breaker's journey was some 16?000 miles."
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