SOVIET NAVAL VESSELS SIGHTED IN THE KOLSKIY ZALIV

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 3, 2010
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• Publication Date: August 5, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REP
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.
COUNTRY iSSR (Murmansk Oblast ; REPORT
SUBJECT Soviet Naval Vessels Sighted in the DATE DISTR.
Kotskiy Zaliv
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1. A report of Soviet naval vessels, gun emplacements and antennas sighted in
the Kolski Zaliv on 5 June and 8 June 1957
2. The vessels sighted included 10 cruisers on 5 June 1957
and 11 cruisers on 8 June 1957 F
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1. 1) A small nova' gessel, type as a minesweeper was
lying slight.`~?9 the entrance to Kola bay on rn~west_
side; it a.ru?d.~i;1y functioned as a guard ship.
2) About 1 1/2 nautical mile further inside on the same side 25X1
there was one more guard ship, same type.
3) In a small bay across from the above-mentioned there were
9 naval vessels described as mine- 25X1
sweepers.
4) A total of 10 cruisers of the observed the
Kola Bay near the V-aen a Ba 25X1
n addition, one more cruiser
o the same size and arm- e but with a more rounded
stern.
5) There were 2 dQ_s rDyv s~ on the eastern
side behind an island (theSal island). Flush deck, two
stacks, three-legged mast, gunturret in front of the bridge
and behind the aftermost stack; torpedo tubes midship,
6) 25 MTB's were lying ashore on the w4stern and northern
side. of a peninsula (Mishuko Pt.).
Slightly south of this also on the western side there were
4 small submarines
8) There were 4 small submarines on the east- f
a small shipyard (in the Rosta''CEW F ct) .
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No armament, no not-cutter in the stem. in the same
location there was a small mother ship or depot vessel.
8 dune 1957
9) The submarines mentioned in para 1.7) had disappeared. The
!4. mentioned in para 1.8) were in the same location.
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kerina place.
cruisers n the bay
and four more lying at a bun-
11) In the bay: 1 minesweeper
12) In the bay: 2 gray-painted ice-breakers.
13) In the bay: 2 destr tycer~
14) In the bay; further out: 9 minesweepers.
2. 1) Emplacements were observed on the western side of the bay.
3 emplacements were seen. The guns themselves were not
seen, since they were covered by camouflage nets. They
were slightly WSW of Roster.
2) Various masts (radar, radio, and signal masts) were seen
along the bay; they were placed every 3/4 nautical mile on
the western side and every 1 nautical mile on the eastern
side.
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cruisers
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observations -ndica a reasonable
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One might imagine that the shipyard in o o.-ov
ficient capacity to build 4 cruisers. If this is the case,
they must almost have had to cease all other building activi-
ties. Since the building of cruisers in Leningrad as been
partly ceased, according to our knowledge, shipbuilding people
from the cruiser building may have been transferred from Lenin-
grad to Molotovsk.
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