IMPROVEMENT OF ETHIOPIAN/SDSF DEFENSES GALDOGOB, SOMALIA(SANITIZED)

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 3, 2011
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• Publication Date: November 17, 1982
• Content Type: REPORT

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IMPROVEMENT OF ETHIOPIAN/SDSF DEFENSES
1. (SWN) SIGNIFICANCE: SINCE LATE OCTOBER, ETHIOPIAN/SOMALI
DEMOCRACTIC SALVATION FRONT (SDSF) FORCES, OCCUPYING THE
SOMALI TOWN OF GALDOGOB, HAVE STRENGTHENED THEIR POSITIONS
WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF NUMEROUS VEHICLE/EQUIPMENT
REVETMENTS AND A PERIMETER LINE OF DEFENSIVE TRENCHES AND
WEAPONS POSITIONS (GRAPHIC 1).
2. (SWN) REMARKS :I IAT 25X1
LEAST 40 INDIVIDUAL VEHICLE REVETMENTS WERE. CONSTRUCTED
NORTHWEST OF GALDOGOB. TWENTY OF THESE REVETMENTS WERE
ARRANGED IN A BATTALION-SIZE GROUPING APPROXIMATELY 2 NM
FROM TOWN (GRAPHIC 2). THE CONSTRUCTION OF THESE
REVETMENTS UNDER TREES PRECLUDED A POSITIVE DETERMINATION
OF THEIR OCCUPANCY STATUS. EXTENSIVE TRACKAGE FROM TRACKED
VEHICLES THROUGHOUT THE DEPLOYMENT AREA, INCLUDING 'TRACKS
LEADING INTO THE REVETMENTS, INDICATED THAT POSSIBLY ALL 40
REVETMENTS WERE OCCUPIED tiVITH ARMORED VEHICLES.
(SWN) IN ADDITION, REVETMENTS HAVE BEEN CONSTRUCTED SINCE
FOR Tiff TWO FOUR-GUN BATTERIES OF 130A4M FIELD 25X1
GUNS M-46 THAT HAVE BEEN DEPLOYED NORTHWEST OF GALDOGOB
SINCE EARLY AUGUST (ONE BATTERY ON GRAPHIC 3).
CONSTRUCTION OF A PERIMETER LINE OF DEFENSIVE TRENCHES AND
WEAPO TIONS SOUTH AND EAST OF GALDOGOB HAS ALSO TAKEN
PLACE THIS DEFENSIVE LINE IS SITUATED 25X1
APPROXIMATELY 2 NM FRObI TOIVN AND IS ORIENTED TO PROTECT
ETHIOPIAN/SDSF FORCES OCCUPYING GALDOGOB FROM ANY ATTACK BY
SOMALI FORCES IN THE AREA.
(SWN) GALDOGOB IS SITUATED APPROXI?4ATELY 2 NM EAST OF THE
PROVISIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE LINE SEPARATING ETHIOPIA AND
SOMALIA, 30 NM NORTHIEST OF GALCAIO,
SOMALIA.
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COORDINATES 07-01-42N 047-01-41E
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