SOVIET BORDER SECURITY ON SAKHAMLIN AND KURILE ISLANDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007600240003-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 24, 2007
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: November 7, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL -INTELLiGGNCE 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.
S-E-C-R-E-T
COUNTRY USSR (Sak *1in Oblast)
SUBJECT Soviet Border Security on
Sakhalin and Kurile Islands
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 7 November 1955
NO. OF PAGES 1
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
Information Rrrcrtc
1 a The Border Troopi -Headquarters for the Sakhalin Kurile area is in Yuzhno-
Sakhalinsk (N 46-57, E 1142-1414), The following units are under this head-
quarters:
a s Kurile Islands
1, Yuri Island 3 - 200-ton patrol vessels
2, Kunashiri Island 5 - 200 to 1400-ton patrol vessels
b. Sakhalin Island
1, Korsakov (0tcmri An unknvr-r~ nuaber Df patrol vessels varv-
N 146-37, 9 1142-471 ing in size from 50 to 1400 tons.
2. Chishitani probably, 10 -1.0 to 100-ton patrol vessels, 25X1
Atlasova ( ishiya), including ships assigned there tem-
N 46-o1, E 1142-027 porarily.
2. The following pattern of action is observable in the activities of the patrol
boats: They go out before sunrise, hide behind islands or points of land.and
return to their bases after sunapt- F_
and Kurile area are rk;1,ng f'or political alas the Border
and not
for preserving marine resources.
NMtN,
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