1. MINE FIELDS IN WESTERN BLACK SEA AREA (SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000400070004-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 12, 2009
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: September 3, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
CO D NTI A i
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.B. 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 Is prohibited.
COUNTRY Rumania/Bulgaria/USSR
SUBJECT 1. Mine Fields in Western Black Sea
Area
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DATE DISTR. 3 Sept. 19;54
NO. OF PAGES 4
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This rAnort was for tsar d by US Navy interrogators
1. Mine fields
The mine fields given in this report were laid during World War II 25X1
by the Germans. The spherical contact mines were moored two meters
below the surfaces. They were anchored by copper wire (max. length.
40 m.) to cement blocks. The mine. fields were untouched until :191+8,
when the Russians swept the fields and laid cylindr1cal t e contact
mines, with hemispherical ends, in the same areas. 25X1
this mine with its case on the dock in Constanta and 25X1
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the mooring cable was made of bronze. Although
was prohibited to approach the mine fields closer than seven
miles except through author channels, during this period in
1948 the mines laid from tracks. The harbor
taster at Constants that the mines were moored two
meters below the surface. Sometime after 1948 the Rumanian
Navy notified the merchant captains that any passage throe h
e-o-fthe mines used in the Od World War II mine fields would be at their own risk.
it is a magnetic mine field.
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Comment: It is doubtful that the Russians swept the mine
areas in since it would not seem necessary in order just to
add another-" of contact mine. It is quite likely that the
sweeping had also been carried out. The ~contact mine laid by the
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Russians appears to be the M-KB tYDe min
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