FOUR-ENGINE AIRCRAFT OBSERVED OVER KAZAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004100050003-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 2006
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 29, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY U$3R (Tatar ASSR)
25X1 SUBJECT
Four-engine Aircraft Observed over Kazan
REPORT NO.
CD NO.
DATE DISTR?
29 Dec ? 1949
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1
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. Four-engine aircraft, :lost of them flyingr individually, were
seen almost daily over YJiZAN (4908tE/560468N), Tatar ASSR,.
The planes had the following characteristics
Radial engines, s_.ncrle rudder assembly, long nose of fuse-
la,-le with full-view cockpit. Machine guns mounted on rear
end of fuselage aft of the tel. 1 assembly, below the fuselage
between the v:inrs, and in the cockpit.
2, r f ty to sixty four-engine aircraft were observed flying in
squrdron formations at an air show.
Cor:;ient e
a. this report is a remarkable corroboration of the state-
ments ::lade by Noviet c eserter TOi(LYEV0
b. it may be assumed that the air show mentioned was held
in Kt'.'-,AN in the au-iier or fall of 19466 on a Soviet holiday.
These 50 to rO Four-engine aircraft, 5-29 copies, can hard-
ly be assumed to represent the total strength of the Soviet
ADD-units -athere(~ over Y,,A.Lf;.Ni for this show.
c a Accor dint', to more recent reports it is assu.':ed that tac-
tical and train',-n;,- un.. -.s of the Soviet strategic bomber force
(-ur-engine and twin-engine planes), inz addition to units
assignee to the air defense system and eq. ipped with conven-
tional jet fighters, are stationed at the fields in the
vicinity of. i4Azlkx,
This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDEN flAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Inleiligence to the
Archivist of the United Sates.
Next Review Date: 2008
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