SOVIET NAVAL VESSELS IN THE KOLA INLET

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006100220010-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 7, 2008
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 15, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United states within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited b:25X1
COUNTRY USSR (Arctic)
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
three identical cruisers of 9s000'.to
10,000 tons in the area of Kola Inlet. Each cruiser had two stacks, a bridge
almost as high as the stacks, two triple gun turrets on the foredeck, atd two
triple turrets on the. afterdecks the gun turrdts
on the foredeck were located farther forward than on British or American
cruisers.. Each cruiser 'was painted light gray except for the forward super-
structure which was painted whiten
2. Two of the cruisers were cbnducting?exercises outside Kola Inlet; two,
destroyers and a submarine also took part in the exercises. The ships were
maneuvering back and forth at high speeds. any
firing by any of 'the ships. The third cruiser was observed, a anc or in 25X1
Vayenga Bay (N 69?05, E 33.26).
About ten destroyers of the ,TORO type, two minelayers and a submarine were
observed at the quay at Rosta (N 69.-03s E 33-05)?1 'Inf'ormant could not pro-
vide any details on these vessels.
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anchor-in Vayenga Bay.
Soviet Naval Vessels in the.Kola
Inlet
DATE DISTR. 15 March 1955
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