PORT OF RIGA

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00418R000100080014-3
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• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 20, 2009
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: May 13, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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4. The pilot boats: wh'ch was a small unwed motorboat
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-.
ins of the Isplonase Laws, Title 18. U.S.C. Seas. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
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by law.
COUNTRY
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
USSR (.Latvian SSR)
Port of Riga
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
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13 May 1955.
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REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT All DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OP CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
This report consists of: two detailed sketches of the Riga port area
and three"mdUtional sketches.
Legend to Sketch No. 1:
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Three submarines
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Military transport vessel,
1 this chi had two guns forward
of the bridge and one gun aft of the bridge
3. A breakwater which does not appear on the Aamiralty Chart of Riga. Alon side
the breakwater, there wexe I.bout 4 MTRe
Each R was equipped with a torpedo tube on each side; the
tube w As located half the deck and half in the plating (see sketch No. 3)-
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An obstruction net consisting.of beams chained together;' in the center of the
net there was an opening about 10 meters wide.
A naval vessel The shi had one mast with a radar
installation which resembled a cheese cover (see sketch No. 4).
drydock, in which there was a freighter of about 5,000 tons. There were no
cranes on the drydock; however, there were three cranes on shore in the
immediate vicinity.
8. A small drydock of about 400 tons. The dock was;ejoty;and it was not equipped
with cranes.
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the naval base harbor
On one or two of the jet aircraft, a round bulge of non-
transparent material shaped like a bomb bay was located on the front
under-surface of the fuselage, at the crone point of the fuselage and the wings.
a great deed of air activity from about 0600 hours until
dark; no foxmatjon y g
A runway about 40 to 50 meters wide on the airfields it extended in a north-
northwesterly direction. There were two MIGs, painted grey-white,, parked next
to each other on the runway. At night there were white lights along the run-
Admiralty Chart. aircraft at the airfield:
sir smsil, singgle-engined, propeller-driven biplanes$ six twin-engined transport
plus; and about 40`aluminum-colored jet aircraft with swept-back wings.
fiend o Sketch No. 2:
Military airfield which is considerably larger than it appears to be on the
A second runway about 40 to 50 meters wide on the airfield; it extended in a
northeasterly direction. There were two MIOs, painted gray white, parked
next to each other on the runway.
Two or three buildings. one of the buildings was a traffic
tower because signals were given by white lights from this building at night,
and; aircraft taxi to this point.
'Trees.,
chimneys
Cement works; a large a lex of factory buildings with at least three chimneys,
each of which was 140 to 50 meters high. White smoke was emitted from the
Probably a testing installation for Jet engines.
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the sound was that of a jet aircraft engine but much stronger.
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of this dock). There were two rail lines and one crane line on the dock. All
the lines were flush with the dock surface, and one of the rail lines vas: located
between the crane line, There were also about tan sheds in two rows of five
each on the dock, Each shed was about 100. meters long, and 12 meters high.
There were also about 90 cranes on the dookill each with a lifting capacity of
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A large cold storage building,, which was partially gray concrete and partially
gre y-yellow brick. The building was approximately 100 to 1995 meters long, 30
to O =tern wide, and.15 meters high. The building had, cellars, about five
or six meters deep, in which-meat was stored by means of an elevator. On the
east side of the building there was a loading platform where railway cars were
loaded, the teseperature inside the building was 14 degrees
below zero, centigrade,
f this pier was similar to the one shown in sketch No. 5e)
A pier, which was used as a storage place for metals and rails. There were
three or four electric cranes on the pier; the cranes moved along rails. (profile
A pier, which was used as a storage place for coal:. On this pier there was a
large so-called electric parallelogram crane (sic).
A large warehouse, which was approximately 120 meters long,., 30 meters wide, and
six motors high. It was a brawn-red brick building with a roof of sheet metal;
in the center of the building there was an office for the stevedores.
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13 A warehouse, approximately 175 to 200 -meters long, 30 meters wide,. and 12
meters high. The customs office and a medical aid station were located in
this building
14, Military hospital; this was a three-story building with a guard post at the
entrance.
15 & 16., Harbor area enclosure, which consisted of a high fence; a guard house was
located at the exit,,
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Sketch Nom 1.
Port of Riga
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Sketch No 2:.
Riga Harbor:
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Sketch No. 3:
Soviet MTB:
Sketch No.l. :
Soviet Vei-891
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Profile o P wort Dock:
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