PORT OF ODESSA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004500890007-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 12, 2007
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 22, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT.
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
This material Contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
Ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18. U.S.C. Sow. 7g3
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person Is prohibited
by law.
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USSR (Black Sea),
Port of Odessa`
REPORT
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THE. SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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No naval units were en-
coun ered enroute and none were observed in Odessa, excepting the training
ship AMERIGO VESPUGCI (sic), which was berthed in the Pratique Harbor. Al-
though the bay was fro.en.near the coast, the route designated by Soviet maritime
authorities, namely, an approach from the south directed toward a oint five miles
west af` Tundra Ba was, navigable,
was audible for about
miles. Entry into the!
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TOROS (international Ca.,
procedure was followed u
he radio beacon on Cape Fontan
miles, while that at Tandra could barely be heard at ten
arb
or took place in convoy, led by the Soviet icebreaker
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and brought up by a patrol vessel. The same
Harbor, near the New Mole
leaving port. The ship berthed at the quay of Cabotage
two assen er shi s at th
e ou en merchant shi s were in ~uarantine
In the working harbor
two graving docks,
apparently floating e s of medium capacity. They were occupied by two Soviet
vessels of 4,000 to 5,000 tons, which w,?re uM r rcp , x.
Two berths for loading and unloading fuel have been constructed at the petroleum
mole and a third is under.,consturction. (See sketch on page 3). Each berth has
ten outlets with diameters varying from five to 20 inches. The Reydovyy Mole,
which connects the Vorontsovskiy Pier-head with the radio station, is being re-
built. At present the masonry-just emerges from the water. On the Vorontsovskiy
Pier-head a new red brick lighthouse about 15 meters high has been constructed but
'optical .equipment has not yet been installed.
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Powerful travelling cranes with capacities in excess of six tons operate on
tracks on the New Mole and the military mole. Crawler cranes and fork hoists
are used to transfer cargo from shipside to the cold storage warehouses across
from the Cabotage Harbor quay. Among the floating cranes are a shearleg crane
on a metal hull with lifting arms of 5.o to 60 ton capacity and about ten
mobile cranes on barges. tiach drone 35: mounted on two barges connected by
two sturdy squared beams about ten meters long. A bogie on which the cranes
are mounted travels along these beams. These cranes seem particularly well
suited for raising weights or vessels from the bottom.
Since the death of Stalin informant has noticed a friendlier attitude with re-
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Sketch of Petroleum Harbor at Odessa
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