PORT OF BATUMI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007100450003-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2008
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: June 28, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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This material contains information afiectiag the National Defense of the United etetee withla the meaniag of the l7spioaage frws, Title
18, U.B.C. Secs. 793 snd 794, tho transmission or revelation of which in say manner to an unauthorized person !a Drohlblted by law.
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28 Jti.n? 1955
SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF'CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
COUNTRY USSR (Black, Sea)
SUBJECT Port off' Batumi
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
all traffic
entering ,'and leaving the port passe between two .uoys w ch Mere centrally
placed in the harbor entrance. Between these two buoys and the shore, there
were rows of buoys which probably supported anti-submarine nets.
2. At the inner (sic) end of the Neftyanoy mole, there was a guard tower in
which sentries were. on watch at all times.
The control, procedure upon the arrival .and departure was
very simple:~~ The crew did not have to assemble and there was no inspection
cSf the ship. +,,p small patrol vessel followed
port for a few miles .
reading of the depth alongside the quay..
ship out of the
4. Two guards were posted on the quay at the moorin os3tion of each ship.
The guards forbad, one of the officers to take a plumb
was empt~r.
5. In the shipyard;.. west of the petroleum harbor there were two. steel vessels
in slips.. The hulls were finished. a third slip
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