PORT OF LENINGRAD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80S01540R000300040007-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 23, 2012
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: May 13, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form 19 prohibited.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY USSR (Leningrad Oblast)
SUBJECT Port of Leningrad
. REPORT
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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Castle (probably Kronshtadt, N 59-59, E 29-45).
vessel passed the battleship
W at anchor slightly west of Fort Crown
vessel passed the B 361 outside Kronshtadt 50X1-HUM
harbor, The vessel was painted grsV and had three funnels;
the B 69 passed) vessel en route to the harbor.
See sketch No, 1, page Q.,
and was probably being equipped. Ten submarine chasers of the B~ class were
tied upside by side at a pier, (For locations, see sketch No. 3, points B.
D, and E, page Q
6. Around the office building occupied by Inflot (point F on sketch No. 3) there
were four radio masts approximately 15 meters tall. On the first floor of the
directly aft of the bridge. Direction finding antenna and radio scanner were
on the mast. There were two sll.arting funnels, torpedo tubes between the
funnels, a short tripod mast directly forward of the second funnel, and two
gun turrets on the after deck. The destroyer did not have a number or a name,
but on the funnels there were patched-over areas where the recognition signals
usually were.painted. On the starboard side of the first mast there was flying
the signal ZZ. (See sketch No, 2, page 3, and point A on sketch No. 3, page 4,
for location,. 50X1-HUM
5. At Zhdanov?Shipyard (approximately N 59-52.50, E 30-14-00) there was a destroyer
of the same class on a slip. The vessel appeared to be almost completed. In
addition there was another destroyer tied up at a pier. It appeared to be new.
(N 59-55, E 30-15) port basin. It had a relatively short forecastle, one gun
turret foreward, bridge superstructure after the forecastle, and a tripod mast
4, a destroyer at anchor in the Leningrad 50X1-HUM
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building there was a room, with various radio equipment. To the north of the
building there were several oil tanks which were painted blue.
7. On Kanonerskiy Island (approximately N 59-54-40, E 30-13-50) there was some
construction work going on, and houses had just been completed. Othefe were
being built. .
8. At Baltic Shipyard (Baltlyak /Ordzhonikida4 approximately N 59-55-20,
E 30-15-40), point H on sketch No. 3, pW4, a cruiser was at anchor on.
19 August. It had two triple gun turrets on the foredeck, two funnels,. and
a mast in front of each funnel. A short distance farther up the-river at
point I on the same .sketch there was a destroyer. It was illuminated by
a number of electric lamps strung up between the masts.
9. At Marti eiipyard (approximately 8:59-55-10, E 30-16.20) there was a cruiser
or a destroyer at a pier in the channel at point K of sketch No. 3. This
vessel was also lighted in the evening.
10. In BarochnyyBasin (approximately N 59-53?.30, E 30-13-20), point L on the same
sketch, there was a floating drydock.* Its capacity was estimated at 5000 to
6000 tons. The drydock was empty.
11. At a small wooden pier between-the drydock and the Inflot offices there Were
several of the different types of patrol vessels which were used to escort
ships in the harbor.- All these vessels were marked with the lett~rt1=:(P)9 ~,
and a three digit number. 50X1-HUM
12. In the basin there were two three-masted sailing vessels.
they were used by the navigation school for the education of deck officers
in the merchant marine. 50X1-HUM
13. During departure the situation at Zhdanoy 50X1-HUM
Shipyard had changed somewhat. The destroyer which had been on the slip coins
no longer be seen, and there were now only eight submarine chasers at the pier.
vessel met a submarine chaser of the BO class. 50X1-HUM
15. Eight nautical miles SSW of Sarlboden (not located) vessel passed
a four masted bark en route to Leningrad. 50X1-HUM
two searchlights in the direction
ofNtssaar Island (approximately N 59-33, E 24-31). The searchlights were 50X1 -HUM
turned off before a bearing could be taken.
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Black _, _ Black
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