1. EQUIPMENT ON SOVIET MERCHANT VESSELS 2. REGULATIONS CONCERNING SOVIET MERCHANT SHIP OFFICERS AND MEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006600490005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2007
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: April 29, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2007/12/18: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA006600490005-4
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
!ngof the 3lpionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 783
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized. person is prohibited
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
This is UNEVALUATED
Information
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS R061tT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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chant Ship Officers and Men NO. OF PAGES 2 25X1
REPOR1
1. Equipment on Soviet Merchant Ve s a DATE DISTR. 29 April 1955
Soviet merchant vessels are not supplied with technical
handbooks on radar, because they are only fir the use of naval officers. Where
2. In January 1953, all merchant ships were notified that,by May 1955, they had to
be fitted with an extra dynamo and radar platforms, the installation of which
could be completed in case of need on a twenty-four to forty-eight hour notice.
The,capacity and the purpose of the dynamo are not known.
3. By May 1955, every merchant ship is also to have its crew quarters enlarged in
order to accommodate additional personnel. not e 25X1
,ery merchant ship is fitted for degaussing.
4. Since early 1953,a new regulation has been in force, under which a merchant ves-
sel going into drydock or undergoing repairs, whether for long or short periods,
must have part of the repairs carried out under naval instructions. 25X1
5. Certain merchant ship officers are selected to undergo special naval training
cotrses, on completion of which they are earmarked for naval duties in time of
war, When a merchant ship officer has taken.-the courses and served a certain
number of years in the merchant fleet, he receives a naval officer's title, which
is usually awarded on October Revolution Day. These merchant ship officers would
automatically join the Soviet Navy in case of war. The rank which woul