POSSIBLE URANIUM MINING ON KOLA PENINSULA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000400090007-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 13, 2009
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 21, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR (Murmansk Oblast) REPORTI
SUBJECT Possible Uranium Mining on Kola Peninsula DATE DISTR. 21 September 1954
DATE OF INFO.
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing 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.
NO. OF PAGES 3
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. On page 1, Natchal'hikm Rayonnovo Ot'dyela is correctly Nachal'nik Rayonnovo
Otdela
2. On page 2, Geologitcheskaya is correctly Geologicheskaya.
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DATE DISTR. 9:, August 1954
(Mu mam k Oblast)
SUBJECT Possible Uranium Mining on Kola Peninsula NO. OF PAGES 2
DATE OF INFORMATION
PLACE ACQUIRED
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
PCS8IB URANIUM MINING IN LOVOZERO REGION
explosive etora
After making an insDeotion Wf explosives stored at Imandra,
.'very large ooncrete bu
at ,ovozero /1 68-O5, E 36-O 7
given a reindeev.-drawn sleigh, food supplies, and a
who would guide' them to a site "somewhere in the.
an-
dras" where another explosive storage was to be inspected.
guide and equipment was supplied by the Chief of the Region
~raneh (Natchal'hi]on Rayonnovo Ot'dyela) at Lovozero,.
::mesoription of Trip into Tundra: The trip lasted two or three
days . No towns or signs of 1 g the whole .time
only mud, snow, and forests. it would be impas;.
Bible to travel through the trackless Tundra without a Guide.
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COK IDENTIAL
Description of Surroundings at Destination: 25X1
a, labor camp located in a hilly region. Camp
a 0 15 lar a ents which house an unknown number of workers.
the only means of transportation in that area
was by reindeer. the camp was only recently
built since workers still lived in tents. These workers were
probably penal laborers q since their earnings
here withheld and recorded in pay boo s. Although food was des-
cribed as excellent workers complained about insufficient vodka
rations. food was supplied by air- 25X1
drops every six months. Camp a no electricity. Illumination was
by kerosene lamps. few women around the camp; one 25X1
tended. explosives wh c were s Cored in a single tent. Stored
explosives were described as "Trotyl" (which looked like cakes of
soap) and "powder".
Camp administration was housed in a log cabin. 25X1
SERGEYEV spent the night there before returning to Lovozero.
During the night many nearby explosions. 25X1
Location of Camp Site: the camp
was located 120 1rm. from Lovozerm
the ore which was mined in the camp's vicinity
"was used for the production of atomic energy (Atomnaya Energiya)."
sample of this ore described as 'dark
ly r-own
ors was a ipped qut
r er whin Pazdrobleniye).
POSSIBLE URANIUM MINING IN SAL ' NIYE TUNDRAS KOLA PENINSULA 1
7.
was ,used for the production of a om o
were seen everywhere in the cabin.
emergy" i Sas~p
desoribedJ'
being "Just like the ore" which .was
Lovozex'o (described above).
ore whi
es ore.
lay
tae headquarters of the Geologi-
o urveyam which was rly located a ? ~+ gad is n w
located in Petroza,vodsk l 61-490 E 34-297.
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