AMMUNITION STORAGE AREA NEAR KARACHEV

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00047R000100410007-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 25, 2013
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: May 22, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Ammunition Storage Area near Karachev
PLACE
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DATE
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DATE DISTR,2?~LMay 1952
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
AN, 794, OF THE U.S. CODE? AB AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR RO VE?
LOTION OF ITB CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY ON UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IB
PROHIBITED BY LAB. THE REPRODUCTION CF THIS FORM IB PROHIBITED.
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
an m munition storage area outside of Karachev - o
28th Ordnance Depot (28-oy Artilleriyskiy Sklad)9 =One of
the principal ordnance depots in the Soviet Union, and as such
was directly controlled by Moscow.
2e This depot was located about one or two kilometers north of
Karachev and covered an area of about four by 1j to two kma
it served as a storage
area, and as a place for assembling ammunition in sizes ranging
from rifle cartridges to 152 mm artillery shells. This same
depot was used by the Germans during their occupation of this
section, and was not damaged by warn there were
also underground stores of chemical goods and aerial bombs C
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In 1948
the area remained intact and was still being use or
ammunition assembly and storage purposes.
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CLASSIFICATION SECRET/SECURITY INFORMATION
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr2013/04/25 : CIA-RDP82-00047R000100410007-7