1. PORT OF DUDINKA 2. YENISEY RIVER AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006200390010-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2008
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 15, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2008/07/14: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA006200390010-3
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR (Arctic)
SUBJECT 1: Port of Dudinka
2. Yenisey River 'Area
This Document contains Information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean.
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
NO. OF PAGES
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE' REVERSE)
15 March 1955
25X1
ship wasen route from Murmansk to the
Yenisey River area. On entering the sound between Kuzkina Island
and the mainland at Kuznetsovskiy Point (N 72-1i2, E 80-45)
ship ran into an area of strong magnetic disturbances.
2. At Peschanyy Point (N 72.02% E 80-48) there was a lighthouse which was
not marked-on either the Admiralty chart or the-Soviet map.
the lighthouse was new., andl it was painted
red. The lighthouse emitted a signal consisting of two white flashes with
3. (ship ran aground at approximately N'70-35, E 83-x+0. The weather
was thick, and the riper pilot steered by a spar buoy which indicated a
shallow place. The ship slid gradually and almost unnoticeably onto a sand-
bank. The pilot 'radioed for'a tugboat without the captainl,s permission, and
the captain refused to-roake use of the tug,,which arrived three or'four hours
later. The ship worked its way free by itself after having been on the bar
for at least four hours.
25X1
25X1
4. On the west side of the'Yenisey River; about 201tO 30 nautical miles south
of Dudinka (N 69-25, E -86-09) a twin-engined? passenger air- 25X1
craft, similar to a Dakota, which landed on a grassy strip. Nearby a single-
engined aircraft was parked. Along the river, there was.a road which turned
in toward a large building jwhich was a hangar. 11 r_'%1 A
5.
three cargo vessels at the quay in Dudinka.
One of the,-vessels had large bundles of netting and some buoys .on the after-
deck. The netting resembled that used by the Germans-as anti-submarine netting.
25X1
STATE ARMY
FBI - 1, EC
Approved For Release 2008/07/14: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA006200390010-3
 Approved For Release 2008/07/14: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA006200390010-3
Approved For Release 2008/07/14: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA006200390010-3