PORT OF LENINGRAD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006100220003-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 7, 2008
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 17, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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observed proceeding in a westerly direction. When the vessels were abeam of
Sursari Island, they turned toward the south,
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COUNTRY USSR (Baltic)
SUBJECT Port of Leningrad
DATE OF INFO.
DATE ACQUIRED
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Sursari Island (N 0-05, E27-00) en route to Leningrad, four naval vessels weri25X1
ship passed a number of MTB s .
a large naval vessel was seen near the buoy at
L ningrad Lightship. The vessel had two triple-barreled guns in a turret on the
foredeck, a bridge superstructure with a large tower, one:mast near the tower,
a large radar antenna on the mast and two triple-barreled guns in a turret on
the afterdeck, the vessel had a flush deck and. a,
pointed after-end. the vessel was larger than the OKTYA3RSKA,YA
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Kronshtadt,
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(,sixteen or seventeen s sere observed in LJ/~I
One of the submarines it was unusuall
ship loaded at the ~ quay which was just a short distance
west of the Zhdanov Shipyard. In one of the slips at the shipyard there was
a naval vessel about the size of a destroyer. It had no superstructure and,
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a tour around the city of Leningrad. A number of
persons were out looking at the naval. vessels which were anchored on the river.
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two of the shins on the river as ones that
were once- German pocket-battleships. One of them was the ex-N(T TB G,
shin was departing, a. vessel
was seen just off Kronshtadt which had a large high crane aft.
it was a repair shin. The pilot said that the shin was to go to beria and
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a vessel of very unusual construction -bu.t'Ucould -not give 25X1
any details concerning the time or place of observation. The vessel was about
250 feet long; both fore and aft, water could be seen between the double hull.
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steel snans crossed from one side of the hull to the other. The Fm'-ns were in
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On the underside of the, arch f ormed by the spans, there was a heavy lengthwise
runner-rail. Hanging down from the rail there were four sixteer-reeved pulleys.
The ends of the cables could be seen through thq aperture in the hull. The vessel
was nainted gray. Atom the foremost scan there was some kind of superstructure.
The vessel rode high on the water and it travelled. at about three to five knots.
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Sketches of Soviet Vessel:
16 reeved -pulleys with
8 sheaves in, each
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