PORT OF CONSTANTA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002800620006-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 6, 2013
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: November 16, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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SICURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Rumania
REPORT
SUBJECT Port of Constant&
DATE DISTR.
16 November 1953
NO. OF PAOIS 2
DAT! OF INFO.
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
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PLACE ACQUIRED
RIFIRINCIS
THI SOURCE 'VALUATIONS IN THIS HEW AU DEPINITIVE.
VW APPRAISAL OP CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SRI WNW
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The ship received the following sailing order from Sovramtransport
Constant& when they passed /stanbull
!Notice to ships calling at Constant&
Entrance minefield channels. Buoy 'AI red, white light)
Lat. N. 44? 04'. Long. E. 280 47' 3"
Frog which take the following courses*
3480 * 2,7 miles
303 * 4,7 miles
Sailing froth Conetanta, from breakwater lighthouses
123? * 4,7 miles
168" * 2,7 miles.?
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The buoy indicated was easily found, and when the pilot came &boo& issoOmpanied
by a soldier, asked the pilot if there were really Mines set out.
The pilot just smiled and shrugged his shoulders.
2. An hour before the pilot came aboard, four destroyer-type naval vessels were
seen out on the horizon in the northerly direction from Constanta. These con*
ducted shooting practice toward the east at a target towed by a smaller vessel.
Shooting from shore was also heard. The distancewas so great that further
observations could not be made.
3. The inspection was very strict, lasting 1 hours when the ship lay at anchor
in the harbor. On departure, the inspection took 5 hours. There were about 20
persons in the inspection team, as well as a doctor and passport inspectors.
No onewas permitted to go ashore, and military guards were observed on the
wharf.
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4. The 3 or 4 destroyers which usually lie in the naval harbor were not there 50X1 -HUM
at the ship's departure. these were the ones
which had been conducting the shooting practice in the Black Sea. A Soviet
tank ship loaded gasoline at the wharf which is reserved for Soviet ships 50X1-H UM
only. The depth along the ship's loading wharf was estimated
to be 28 30 feet. /the Soviet gasoline wharf was
about 35 feet long, the harbor
here was going to be deepened so that it would be able to accomodate the
largest ships. this time there were small commer?
cial craft in the harbor, 50X1 -HUM
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