SULINA HARBOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000700140009-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2009
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 26, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
INFORMATION REPORT to amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or r receipt by y an an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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REPORTI
DATE DISTR. 26 March 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1, The following shipping was observed in the Sulina harbor during the week of
20 to 26 November 1952:
a. The SS NOGIN and one other unidentified Soviet freighter passed Sulina
going up the Danube River.
b, The BUDAPEST, a Hungarian freighter, passed Sulina going downstream
headed for Istanbul,
tugboat, arrived in Sulina to tow the SS
reighter, to Istanbul,
d. Unidentified passenger steamers of the Braila-Galati line arrived every
evening at 1800 hours.
e, The SFANTUL GHEORGHE, a dredge, was berthed at the shipyard quay.
f. An unidentified dredge lay just to the west of the SFANTUL GHEORGHE,
g. Two unidentified tugboats lay to the east of the SFANTUL GHEORGHE. The
larger tugboat was of a 600 to 700 horsepower capacity (sic).
2. Navigation Aids.
a. The channel through the Sulina breakwater was marked by red buoys on the
north of the shallow area and green buoys to the south (sic).
b. On the north breakwater there is a lighthouse and a buoy continually W
flashing red and on the south breakwater there is a lighthouse and a buoy Cc
flashing a green light. The buoys are from 150 to 200 meters apart..
c. Between the breakwater lighthouses and the buoys the passage is marked
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by three red and three green posts placed in straight lines on either
side of the channel.
d. About 200 meters west of the lighthouse of the south breakwater there
is a fog horn which sounds off at ten-minute intervals when there is a
fog in the harbor.
e. Approximately one kilometer west of the north breakwater there is an
old lighthouse which has been inoperative for years. The lighthouse
marked on charts as being just west of this lighthouse. has been removed.
f. The depth of the channel through the breakwater: is 24 feet.
g. The depth of the water alongside of the quays is estimated at 28 feet.
h. The depth of the channel west (sic) of the breakwater is deeper than
24 feet.
3.
Security Restrictions. Upon the arrival of a foreign vessel, a control
squad composed of one Soviet and five Rumanian police officers searches the
steamer. The radio transmitter is sealed, but the operator is permitted to
receive daily weather bulletins. One member of the crew approached the
shipping agent and asked for a landing permit in order to go to church. The
agent replied that he would get the seaman a landing permit,but on no account
should the seaman contact anyone on shore as the authorities would arrest
and interrogate him. The agent said that he was also examined after each
visit to a foreign vessel. The Rumanian soldiers who guarded the steamer asked
for cigarettes and lighter flints. They openly cursed the regime and gave
permission for an old boatman to come aboard and trade wine for oil.
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