PORT OF BATUMI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003900220010-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 15, 2010
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: July 14, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
a, A 2,000-ton ship moored in front of the crane
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COUNTRY USSR (Black Sea)
SUBJECT Port of Batumi
DATE OF INFO.
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This is UNEVALUATED Information
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.B. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT 15 TENTATIVE.
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and unloaded a cargo of cast
c, Two MIG-type jet aircraft and one twin-engined aircraft flew independently
over the port,
iron ingots,
b. The Soviet steamship POBEDA
d. A 12,000-ton tanker equipped with PPI radar entered port empty, loaded,
and departed.
e. A very old twin-engined aircraft, a twin-erigined military transport
aircraft, and a formation of five MIGs flew over the harbor area.
and cast iron.
Two small steamers, each of which displaced between and 1,100 tons
moored in front of the cranes and unloaded salt
g. A landing craft entered port and docked
he A 700-ton steamer loaded with lumber berthed near the crane
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i. A 1,000-ton passenger ship entered port.
J. A. loaded 10,000-ton tanker came into port ; and left in the evening.
k. A twin-engined aircraft landed about five kilometers south of the park
Two MIGs, a modern twin-engined
aircraft , and an old biplane flew over the port.
1. A 6,000 ton tanker arrived empty and departed with a full cargo.
m. The Soviet merchant ship ARGUN arrived for bunkering.
n. Two MIGs flew over the port.
A 2,000-ton vessel with a cargo of iron and cast iron berthed in front of
p. A 10,000-ton tanker came into port
PPI radar.
empty. The tanker was equipped with
2. The auxiliary cruiser_moored
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and departed. the following evening
vessel had air search radar of the
with
Brit
about sailors on board,' This
ish 291 type. There were two direction,
finder antennas under the mastheads. T
wo single 80 mm guns were mounted forward.
3. On 12 October and 13 October, at 1630 h
ours weather balloons were released
from the lighthouse in the naval and
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4.
Near the cranes
(there was a storage lot in which
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there were abou
t 82 trucks. At the rea
r of the transit sheds
there were about 28 trucks. On 8
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October, ten trucks were loaded on a freight train for shipment inland.
On 9 October, 15 trucks were shipped out of the port by train.
'ive freight cars which were loaded with wooden poles five or
six meters long. Each pole had a diameter of between 15 and 20 centimeters.
5. About 150 tar blocks shaped like gasoline drums and covered with thick
layers of paper were stored in the shed
in the shed five iron frames for reinforced concrete poles ten
meters long and 25 centimeters wide. The frames consisted of eight
longitudinal rods, each with a diameter of 35 millimeters. The rods
were covered with iron wire seven or eight millimeters thick. At the
ends of the rods 15 or 20 wires were visible, and the wiring was seven
or eight millimeters thick.
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