PORT OF RIGA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013600400007-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 1, 2011
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 3, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR' (Baltic)
SUBJECT Port of Riga
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE
ACQUIRED
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
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CLASSIFICATION SECRET/CONTROL.M. S. OFFICIALS ONLY
SECURITY INFORMATION
DATE DISTR. 3 September 1952
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NO. OF ENCLS.
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT" NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
All along the Latvian coast, I Ithere.were watch towers
spaced about three miles apart and . situated. about two miles inland.
noted a Soviet escort vessel at 50X1-HUM
anchor off the entrance of Riga harbor. The vessel had-one funneland
two guns forward, estimated to be 3-inch caliber. She
also carried two pairs of antiaircraft guns aft.
50X1-HUM
Ithe coal dump quay situated on the east bank
of the.Daugava River, southwest of little Vejzaka Island (56-58N,24-SE).
The depth alongside this quay was 24 feet. 50X1-HUM
there must have been at least 20,000 tons of coal on the dump.
4. twelve mobile cranes on the quayside. their
lifting capacity. en tons. The loading, as handled
with great speed and.effic:iency.
fuselage (sic). There were also five biplanes and seven twin-engine
passenger aircraft among,the forty.
noted 40 .Soviet.i aircraft at the
pilve.airfieldssituated on the opposite bank of the river. Fifteen
of these were fighter aircraft, all of which had a marked upswept
motor torpedo boa s at s. point about 57- 5N, 21-55
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ARMY
speed
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