ANALYSIS OF PHOTOGRAPHS PURPORTING TO SHOW SOVIET ATOMIC EXPLOSIONS

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CIA-RDP83-00423R001700740005-7
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RIPPUB
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C
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2
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November 9, 2016
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April 19, 1999
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5
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Publication Date: 
January 14, 1955
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REPORT
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1911-11710) nnA,),orit147nri7 , c.) ?/c- /NJIJI ?JVGli I WI 1-WIGCCOG Ii. 1 ?-.1 ?-.111J ill 11J _ -....,*air' . nil 6 7 ..6 5 INFORMA ION . . la material contains information affecting the itiptill Dehnse of the United States within the mkiningiettpiae:33;age Laws, Title 18, U.S. C. Secs. 7987atid74 ' trhyssmission or revelation of whgli9;4ri iiiiania004,6 an unauthorized per- seti-IfS prA4Afed by'fbi REPORT q, PREPARED AND DISSEMINATED BY CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY COUNTRY us REPORT NO. SUBJECT Analysis of ?botospha t At ?aims Purporting toow DATE DISTRIBUTED NO. OF PAGES di. Np. F ENCLS. SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT # PLACE ACQUIRED My source) 2 5 X 1 Pr-- RESPONSIVE TO 00/C- , DA' " '- -ource) DA rE OF INFORMATION (Date events or conditions described Dec 54 and or dotes, on or between which, in report existed) earlier X-IX--- SOURC I. PX1X . tbe rtifijetered ietttir few days ago. happened uince, Dec 54) issue of the London page they published a picture or explanations ss to the picture is the picture of 'Red tar of 3 kue 54 (L1Xsoyis late17. compere both az there is one after another Oiled same air atomic explosion. the question - 40ther riddle in the following some of their explosion this weapon. but published ce picture 415 Dec 54 _ IIVZI N.) with pictures of the i whicA I want to inform you Communist paper of an atomic eplosion, origin of their picture. .,...\_ the series 'air atomic. article)- aDiX -77- no doubt that they are Star' picture first, 'Daily Mealy Worker's at It s a Soviet Amy- Sovietmithorities pictures, to prove dis- In 'Ret Star' izsL sent hope you did receive atomic explosion I sent "30methine, most int.restizi- about at on "In the today's (15 Worker,' on the first without ainz c9Pqauts am "Daily Worker" ecTioeionl from the lakin a mill mond "I did meticulously pictures, taken Worker's later) of the picture is better reproduced.) "This seems to clinch explosion. "I reconstitute this did cautiously release creetly that they possess "b did Jwt so, - S St .. . .. U _Fr , DISTRIBUTI . . ' ARMY NAVY AIR FBI Approved For Release 1999/09/10 : CIA-RDP83-00423R001700740005-7,,,,ttor 0.1 issw-V4 aulis fr dse, within the USA, of Intelligence components of the Departments or Agencies indicated abov,,, '? ,a/9w} urence of the originating office bar been obtained through the Assistant Director for Collet Approved For Rekale 199S/09/10 : CIA-RDP83-00423R001700740005-7 meglerIPMPPI. 1101110?1101111401101611?616,111.= -2- 9 Ma wanted only to give. a Ulas, not to *pieai their news why 'Daily Worker' did not comment at all on this picture. cannot boast about their bombs too much - *specially here because it uvula affect their peace propaganda. *Int on the other band they want to Aligai ask eigengz. Lspecially now after Moscow conference or soviet orbit leaders against German reZasamat. so they send these pictures to be published. *Gtheruise it would be inconceivable bat the same exp1osion is pictured in August in Moscow 'Red Star' and in December in the Crassprit t thiuy in !Anion. This is not a coincidence?but the result or the fact that they released for publication the pictures of this given air explosionimade in USSR - amd they foumd their way through the Soviet picture agency to both these Communist papers. 2. In a anbeequent communication 56 Dec 547, stated that the pictures var. 3 a. Not over any Central Asiatic desert b. Possibly over flat northern tundra t.rritor inland a. Possibly over an island or coastal territory on the soviet arctic. IMIttated furtherthat he leaned to the third possibility as the AO 5X1 X6 gn"file in CIA Library are two photographs, nne of which appeared in the Red Army publication, Red Star, August 1954, the other appeared in the London Daily Worker, December 1954 - end - Approved For Release 1999/09/10 : CIA-RDP83-00423R001700740005,77