ANTIAIRCRAFT FIRING PRACTICE IN THE GULF OF FINLAND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001800380004-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 20, 2001
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: September 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
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COUNTRY USSR (Baltic) REPORT NO.
SUBJECT Antiaircraft Firing Practice DATE DISTR. op em er,
in the Gulf of Einlaand
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SOURCE:
Prom 0830 to 2200 hours on 9 April 1953, a Soviet antiaircraft battery,
emplaced on the tip of Pakripeninsula (N 59-23, E 24?02), practiced
firing toward the sea with four guns.
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brilliant star shells, which, upon detonation, formed four.luminous
bodies, one above the other. They burned for six minutes,, during which
time they seemed to maintain their altitude, and were fired at by three
guns of the battery at intervals of one or two seconds, 25X1A
that the bursting shells developed white smoke instead o e usual
dark gray, and that the flashes of the bursting shells were glaring white,
rather than red or reddish.
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Co meet The antiaircraft guns obviously fired at a target which
altitude usually maintained only in war, and which could not
be ascertained because of its distance. As searchlights would scarcely
have been able to penetrate effectively up to that altitude, and as no
radar firing was made, chains of very luminous star shells were.
apparently employed to illuminate the target, thus making fire control
possible, to some extent, by means of the light burst clouds.
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