PORT OF MEZEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005300230004-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2007
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: November 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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. Sees. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
COUNTRY USSR (Arctic)
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
NO. OF PAGES
REQUIREMENT
REFERENCES
15 No rember 1951+
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1.
25X1
ship was in the port of Mezen The ship
space for two ships. The landing'. approach to each of them was'different.
ship loaded to a depth of 13 feet,9 inches. When loaded to a
14-root n ph, the ship was aground alongside the quay at low tide.
loaded at both floating quays at Mezen. Both quays were practically identical,
cargo on the ship. There were many soldiers on the ship,
stern. (See Sketeh on paw 24 three military trucks as deck
a Soviet merchant ship of about 600 to 700
DWT anchored some distance up the river and remained there for several days.
It was a motor ship and was painted light gray. The ship had a forecastle,
a short afterdeck, one stack, two masts, an elevated afterdeck',(sic),and. a blunt
the vessel was a naval transport vessel engage in routine military
3.
1+.
The only air activity observed consisted of a two-engine aircraft which flew
over Mezen daily and landed on the other side of the river. This aircraft
resembled a DC-3. It was usually observed in flight during the forenoon with
irregular appearances during the rest of the day.
ship was located about 15 miles offshore west of
Kharlov Island (N -+9, E 37-21). From this location a
large naval vessel which was following an easterly course five or six nautical 25X1
The escorting vessels could not be observed clearly
observed. The cruiser was escorted by two small vessels on the starboard side.
submarines traveling on the surface or small surface
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three submarines proceeding in line formation
about five or six nautical miles to the rear of the vessels mentioned above.
One of the submarines changed its course to the northeast and proceeded at
about 10 to 12 knots. This subm-rinLa had a stream ed conning tower and
one gun aft of the tower; it was a three-inch,
semi-eatomatic gun. There was no gun forward of the conni ower. The
submarine was painted light gray. a periscope
Sketch of Soviet Vessel:
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