PORT OF ODESSA

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004300280002-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 12, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 22, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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
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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REPORT
DATE DISTR. 22 June 1954
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REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
This ship apparently was on a regular
the icebreaker MAKAROV was sunk during the war.an
dock workers were heating the water outlets on the pier with gaso-
naval harbor. The Rumanian steamship TRAN$YL7ANIA arrived in port
2. Merchant ship traffic was heavy. A 15,006-ton passenger ship1possibly
undergoing repairs, was moored at Point No. 1. Several steamers were moored
at Point No. 2, A tanker was under repair in a floating drydock in the
Odessa was the only port in the northern Black Sea area which was open to
traffic. All other ports were blocked by ice.
schedule and made trips between Odessa, Constanta, and Durazzo.
3. Each ship which a eyed the port had to be accompanied by an icebreaker.
icebreaker KRASSIN was on duty in the port of Vladivostok. The icebreaker
TOROS was operating in Odessa.
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the
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There were two double railroad tracks on the pier) 25X1
a capacity of about 20 tons. Bucket cranes ' loaded the coal into ships. Under
normal conditions, it was possible to load a 3,000-ton vessel in one day.
However, cold weather hampered the loading 25X1
coal was transported to the pier in large railroad cars, each of which had
line lags. The water pipes leading to the pier apparently were frozen. There
were some self-propelled tractors on the pier which were used to lift cargo. 25X1
Each tractor had a sort of movable platform on which crates were lifted from
the pier to the deck of the ship. some large crates, ten 25X1
meters by three meters by three meters, among the piles of mixed cargo on
the quay. ($ee sketch). The average height of the piers above the water
was about two meters.
USSR (Black Yea)
Port of Odessa
Between the tracks there were piles of coal. See sketch.) The
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a Soviet cruiser was observed leaving
port, This vessel resembled a cruiser of the DUCA D'ADSTA Class in dis
-placement, number and location of stacks, and location and structure of
the bridge. The cruiser bad the following armsmentt two large gun turretsi,
one forward'and one aft; six barbettes,? three to port and three to starboards
with guns of fairly large caliber; and a complex of machine guns forward and
far aft. On the foremast of the ship there was a truncated parabolic radar
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re by 7o meters.
a submarine of medium tonnage entered port.
visibility was poor..
No radar'or radio antennae were observed n ie por-C a.
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