(SANITIZED)PORTS OF NOVOROSSLISK AND KHERSON(SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R009200080015-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 3, 2012
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: August 4, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

Declassified in Part - &
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ht shore are many sunken hulks 50X1 -HUM
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there is no construe on
The railroad station is
center of the anne s been dredged to about 29 feet.
in good condition and a eat deal of frei was cbsarved but little or no 50X1-HUM
cnYi_Ni inn
r
guaY'' s atiofiwhich contacts arriving ships. passenger pier is destroyed.
ch can load 8,000 tons in 48 hours. tiThender way in the port area. The
g
::;i'c, '- - At the entrance on mce '- war p TASKANOV. On the pier at
ain irloaded with la prewar oele-
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with suPtructx~re m
and 1 armed motorship about 13 or 15 meters long.
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the shore w large qa es c&al. It i$"restimated that
KHEftSO Lron- ? the pier the draught is 25
~20a tons Zoi~~.d be loaded in 42 hours Along
of 18 feet. Pier construction was
NW-t 2-
feet, but the Russians allow only a maximum
DNIEPER, is an opening which seems to
under wa '. ar the right bank going up Radio signals wire heard from a50X1-HUM
g'. ea j loading for the
14 az port: 1 Russian liner, =26' ens Hof unknown re stery destroyer 50X1-HUM
S in 2 small sabotage steamers,
ear ed1v changed, 1 coast guard cutter about meters long,
ar
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be a naval base entrance*
land station not in large the teratitified industry is units aboutg30KhersOn 0 meterrsofrom
tact station USI. A
t
y.
the shore on the edge of the ci
Ships in part: 1 Russian drede
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I2 or 3 Russian
subchasers at the mouth of the
DNIEPd 10 subehasers entered Odessa.
, an
D NIEpER,
Fort Nikola ev on the island at the entrance to the DNIEPER. was observed to have
in undetermined number of guns.
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/07/03: CIA-RDP83-00415R009200080015-5