PORT OF NOVOROSSIYSK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004300490006-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 2010
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: June 15, 1954
• 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
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
INFORMATION REPORT to or receipt by an unauthorized Person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibits'
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COUNTRY USSR (Black Sea)
SUBJECT Port of Novorossiysk
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
NO. OF PAGES
15 June 1954
DATE OF INFO. REQUIREMENT NO. RD
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
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commercial piers were in use: the cement pier, the import mole, the grain pier,
and the oil pier.
2. The coasting mole, pier No. 4, and all piers east of the grain pier were still
in disuse.
3. We It of the oil pier, metal stakes were being driven into the sea bed. Apparently
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a new pier was under construction at this location.
Two wrecks were visible in the northeastern part of the harbor.
A salvaged hulk was undergoing repairs at the eastern quay.
6. Fishing vessels were moored at the refrigeration. lant.
7, The Soviet liner ROSSIYA was anchored in the port.
8. Naval vessels in the port consisted of an unknown number of coastal patrol
vessels, each armed with one gun forward, and three or four 25X1
motorboats, which were observed on one occasion laying a smoke screen in
Novorossiysk Bay. The coastal patrol vessels berthed at a small jetty west
of the grain pier. The motorboats anchored between the coasting mole and thei
western mole.
9. In a storage dump near the grain pier, empty barrels, plywood,
and rolls of tar paper ready for shipment to Albania*
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