PORT OF ARKHANGELSK

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006400510008-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 18, 2008
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: April 15, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR (Arctic)
Port of Arkhangelsk
This Document contains Information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United 8tates, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 798 and 794, of the U.B. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of Its contents 25X1
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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1. At 0700 hours on 25 September 1954, three naval vessels were seen on a
northerly course about two nautical miles south of Orlov Point (N 67-13,
E 41-18 in the White Sea Strait. The vessels sailed a line formation
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behinu a splinter shield on the foredeck, a bridge, a 20-millimeter
gun on a platform-on each side of the bridge, one stack, a break from
the forecastle to the boat deck next to the stack, a mast with equip-
ment, lifeboats, a break down to the afterdeck, and a gun behind a. shield
on the afterdeck (see sketch No. 1).
2. Vessel d a milk-white cylindrical cupola with a slightly convex 25X1
top an o om on the top of the mast. From ^ small flat place just un-
derneath the cupola, four arr_.s bent out and up toward it. On the end of
each arm there was a sphere, which was practically as high as the middle
of the cupola. The both the crosswise and lengthwise di-T-3 rections. Vessels ad a similar grayish cupola on the 25X1
mast, but it was not provide with arms and spheres.
3. On 26 September, naval vessel tied up alongside the dock at Solom- 25X1
bala. At 1730 hours on 8 October, the same vessel passed by Sawmill No.
25 on the way out. It had one gun behind a splinter shield on the fore-
deck, a bridge, a two-armed mast on the bridge, and an object covered with
a tarpaulin on a small rig about halfway up the mast. It also had one
stack, two lifeboats on each side, a sturdy crane on a base aft of the
boatdeck. From the base there were two arched supports, one to each side
of the vessel. The crane arm leaned aft. It was slightly arched end had
a four-sheaved iron block with cable wires. There was a crane on the
stern-frame also (eee sketch To. 2).
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4. Late in the evening of 5 October, nnaval
No. 25 on its way in. passed Savmiill
foredeck and smaller
gun s on the a-fterdeck see sketch SO. ). the
5. At 0900 hours on 8 October, four aaval vessels p::ssed Sawmill No. 25
on the way out. At 1615 hours on the same day, the same vessels came
river to Sawrill No. 25. All were alike;
had one gun in a turret on the foredeck.
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oor and a small hatchway on one Bide of the gun superstructure was long and low with a mast; there wasr.widehstaa kdge
with a black top, and one gun on each side aft of the stack. There were
two guns behind shields on the afterdeck (see sketch go. 3,.
6. In the evening of 8 October naval v sn pissed Sawnill No. 25
on the w ut.
(see sketch to. 4).
maw se s oina up an dovmm the river st Sunni
No. 25 during the night,
7. In the vicinity of the Solombala docks there were four, possible six,
boats visible under construction on shore. They were 18 to 20 feet long,
and had brown painted iron hulls, deckhouses, raised sterns, and two cy-
lindrical shields, one on each side under the stern. The propellers were
not mounted (see sketch to. 5).
About two meters out from the quay, the depth Was 30 to 3
eet. Close in to the quay, there was a bank which made it necessary for
all ships to stand off a short distance from the quay (see sketch No. 6).
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