SOVIET NAVAL VESSELS OBSERVED IN NOVOROSSIYSK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005300790002-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2007
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: January 1, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2007/06/07: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA005300790002-8
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This materiel contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage Laws, Title la, U.S.C. Sees. 790
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which In
any manner to an unauthorised person Is prohibited
by law.
COUNTRY USSR (Black Sea)
UBJECT Soviet Naval Vessels Observed in
Novorossiysk
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REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. From 8 to 12 May 1954, Soviet submarine which was observed in 25X1
Novorossiysk put to sea every morning,returning in the evening. It was
about 75 meters long, with a rounded bow, a vertically rising, slightly
rounded bridge stepped toward the stern, and a gradually sloping after-
deck which carried no armament. A gun of about 100-millimeter caliber
was located immediately forward of the conning tower. An antenna extended
from the stem, over the bridge, to the stern? The submarine had no net
cutter.
2. Four or five small vessels were also in port. 25X1
Each. vessel was about 25 meters ong, witn a raking open bridge
structures, a flush continuous deck, a flat cabin extending over two-thirds
of the fantail, and several canvas-covered objects on the after section of
the fantail near the square stern. They were armed with a light machine
gun of an estimated caliber of 30 millimeters and two machine guns, one
each on the starboard and port sides..
3. Another vessel moored in the harbor had a raking stem, a short foredeck with
a single gun of about 50-millimeter caliber mounted behind a protecting shield,
squat bridge structures with a mast with top mast jutting from the middle, and
a short smokestack with a slanting hood immediately aft of, and a little higher
than, the bridge. The ship's side sloped toward the stern, beginning abeam
the smokestack. Low deck structures, with a small machine gun atop, were
on the afterdeck, which had a square stern.
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