ARMS DELIVERY TARABULUS PORT FACILITIES, LIBYA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 4, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 23, 1982
• Content Type: REPORT

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NPIC/PEG (12/82)
ARMS DELIVERY
TARABULUS PORT FACILITIES. LIBYA
1. (SWN) SIGNIFICANCE: ADDITIONAL SOVIET ARMS HAVE BEEN DELIVERED
TO LIBYA.
2. (SWN) REMARKS: T'WO FOUR-RAIL SA-3 LAUI`~~HERS, 18 ZSU-23/4
SELF-PROPELLED ANTIAIRCRAFT ARTILLERY GUNS (SPAA), ONE PROBABLE
FLAT FACE RADAR (IN TRAVEL MODE), ONE PROBABLE SA-2/3 CANISTER
TRANSPORTER, AND AT LEAST 30 VAN-BODIED TRUCKS/TRAILERS ARE ON
THE MILITARY TRANSSHIPMENT UAY. MOST OF THIS EQUIPMENT WAS
PROBABLY PRESENT BUT WAS NOT IDENTIFIABLE 25X1
DUE 'l0 IMAGE SCALE. THE OFFLOADING OF THIS EQUIPMENT FROM A
SOVIET KAPITAN KUSHNARENKO-CLASS MERSHIP PROBABLY BEGAN ON
WHEN AT LEAST EIGHT TRUCKS AND TEN PROBABLE 25X1
SMALL 'TRAILERS WERE ON THE QUAY. THE KAPITAN KUSHNARENKO-CLASS
MERSHIP WAS FIRST OBSERVED AT THE QUAY 25X1
(SWNj A SOVIET KAPITAN KUSHNARENKO-CLASS MERSHIP, THE 'KAPITAN
SLIPKO', WAS REPORTED TO HAVE DEPARTED FROM THE BLACK SEA ON
KITH A DECK CARGO THAT INCLUDED THREE VAN 25X1
BODIED TRUCKS, ONE STAKE TRUCK, ONE POSSIBLE RADAR VAN, FIVE
AMBULANCES, TWO UTILITY VEHICLES, AND FOUR TRAILERS. THE
' KAP I TAIyS
~'~ZEVIOUSLY CALLED AT TUBRUQ
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LIBYA, (NFOIO SMA 2122322 DEC 82, SECRET
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