PORT OF MURMANSK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007100790009-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 4, 2008
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: June 24, 1955
• Content Type: 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 by law. 25X1
COUNTRY USSR (Arctic)
SUBJECT Port of Murmansk
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ship was in the port
the forenoon,
of Murmansk ~ I Early in
~?~ -.,oua uauyyaru, are vessel was ap.proaamaately 700 feet long, and its
armament consisted of two gun turrets on the foredeck and two gun turrets
on the afterdeck; each turret was equipped with three guns. The vessel also
had to masts and two stacks; the after stack had a tall smoke deflector,
20 Another large naval vessel, was observed in a in
at the Rosta Shi ard,
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structure., a break in the deckline aft of the bridge. two stacks And ern alias
Four naval vessels, each about 400 feet long, lay at one of the quays at the
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eac gun turret was not observed.
Two large naval vessels were observed later in the forenoon ga Bay
(N69-o5, E33?26). One of the vessels was similar to vessel (see para. 1), 25X1
The second vessel was about 750 feet long (see sketch No, 3 . I't had two gun
turrets on the foredeck, a foremast., a stack with a straight smoke deflector,
an aftermast immediately forward of the second stack., a tower-like su a st e
aft--of the second stack, and two gun turrets on the afterdeck. 25X1
(N69?10., B33-4,d . The vessels were heading in the inlet
At about noon) la destroyer and a submarine outside Tvuva Bav
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Sketch No. 1:
Soviet Vessel
Sketch No. 2:
Soviet Vesself
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3-Sketch-c.
Soviet Naval-Vessel:
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