SA-5 EQUIPMENT DELIVERY TARTUS PORT FACILITIES, SYRIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90T00784R000200520001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 3, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 13, 1983
• Content Type: REPORT

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SA-5 EQUIPMENT DELIVERY
TARTUS PORT FACILITIES, SYRIA
1. (SWN) SIGNIFICANCE: ADDITIONAL SA-5 SURFACE-TO-AIR
MISSILE-ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT HAS ARRIVED AT TARTUS PORT
FACILITIES
BEZHITSA/POLTAVA-CLASS MERSHIP HAD ARRIVED AND 25X1
DELIVERED 12 SA-5 MISSILE/CANISTER TRANSPORTERS WHICH REMAIN ON
THE MOLE.
EAST OF A SOVIET BEZHITSA/POLTAVA-CLASS MERSHIP. THE
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2. (SWN) REMARKS: SA-5-ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT INCLUDING FOUR
PROBABLE COMPUTER VANS, TWO UNIDENTIFIED TRUCK-TRAILER
COMBINATIONS, AND APPROXIMATELY 50 ADDITIONAL POSSIBLE
SA-5-ASSOCIATED VEHICLES IS ON THE CENTRAL MOLE. IT WAS
PROBABLY DELIVERED BY THE SOVIET MUROM-CLASS MERSHIP WHICH WAS
ENTERING POR ND IS NOW MOORED AT THE MOLE JUST 25X1
(SWN) ALTHOUGH THE NEWLY ARRIVED EQUIPMENT CANNOT BE
SPECIFICALLY IDENTIFIED, IT IS SIMILAR TO EQUIPMENT OBSERVED AT
NIKOLAYEV PORT FACILITIES SOUTH IN THE SOVIET 25X1
UNION THE EQUIPMENT WAS ON THE MOLE WITH SA-5 25X1
LAUNCHERS, ADJACENT TO A MUROM-CLASS MERSHIP. 25X1
THE SA-5 LAUNCHERS WERE STILL PRESENT, BUT THE MUROM-CLASS
MERSHIP AND THE SA-5-ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT HAD DEPARTED.
(SWN) OTHER SOVIET MERSHIPS IN PORT INCLUDE ANOTHER
MUROM-CLASS WHICH HAS BEEN MOVED FROM THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE
SOUTH MOLE TO THE NORTH SIDE OF THE SAME MOLE 25X1
COORDINATES 34-54-18N 035-52-IOE
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