PORT OF BATUMI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R013800040005-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2012
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: December 30, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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I11TELtUFAX 23
FORM NO. 51-4AA
FEB 1952
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
CLASSIFICATION S ;u ,E7.',r CON I'1ZOIamt1. S. C)ai'~'I: IALS ONLY
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR (Black Sea)
SUBJECT
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.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
50X1-HUM
i.. III R.aturiii ti', fc.lrri,000-tons
capacity can moor alongside.
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DATE DISTR. 30 December 1952
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The water outlets are at 7 on Atta r- : %it: 1 -chile at 8 there are a
fevw masonry one-story i wilding N1 Gr1 slop, -.d roofs of red tile.
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` r es pt L- ;:./ are offices and. tc, l wax ehouses.' At 9 on Attachment 1
they e, i a bai racks where the rru.litarrj assigned to the port area are
e.aartered. This. is a tzwe sstory structure with a sloped red tile roof.
6. The patrol , t.i ti.en ,it 10 on At LachLment l . is a glass-walled sentry box
on top of a 15 or 20 meter-high tower of either iron or concrete. The
sentry box is reached by means of an iron ladder. The sentries are
lodged in the barracks at 9.
7. There al a f - ~4 :Shops for the repair of ships at 11 on Attachment 1.
Alongside,. some apparatus for hailing up the ships.
craft moored there. T 1,e motor patrol bc,_i,s were armed with a 20 mm
achie gun at tlie prow ra?r;ile the MAS had a four-barreled machine
gun of undetermined caliber at the proww.
the military craft docked at 12 bipcause ~
o patrol boats, a MAS9 and tvio or three German-type landing
Other craft observed included the following'
a. A dredg at 13
b. Various wooden fishing boats at 14
e. A Soviet, ua,sse iger snip at 15
d. A motoruozt moored at 16. The latter. ,.as probably the only
pilot boat that the port ha.ud.
...t;. The security of A the, T .,ox ~ , e=a:s z.:~ the , ? - ttask 'of I avy detachments (sic?mB?).
These pu ti?ol the cneck 4 1e passes,