FLOGGER DELIVERY SAYQAL AIRFIELD, SYRIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90T00784R000200550008-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 3, 2011
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 27, 1983
• Content Type: REPORT

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FLOGGER DELIVERY
SAYQAL AIRFIELD, SYRIA
1. (SWN) SIGNIFICANCE: FLOGGER SHIPMENTS TO SYRIA ARE CONTINUING.
2. (SWN) REMARKS: FIVE FLOGGER TYPE C FUSELAGE SHIPPING
CONTAINERS AND NINE FLOGGER COMPONENT SHIPPING CONTAINERS ARE
ON THE TAXIWAY SERVING THE FIGHTER AIRCRAFT
ASSEMBLY/MAINTENANCE AREA. THE FLOGGER CONTAINERS, NOT PRESENT
WERE PROBABLY DELIVERED TO THE AIRFIELD 25X1
FROM AL LADHIQIYAH PORT FACILITIES WHERE AT 25X1
LEAST TWO POSSIBLE AIRCRAFT SHIPPING CONTAINERS WERE SEEN IN
THE TRANSSHIPMENT AREA A SOVIET LENINSKIY 25X1
KOMSOMOL-CLASS MERSHIP WAS AT THE NEARBY QUAY 25X1
(SWN) COLLATERAL INDICATED THAT A LENINSKIY KOMSOMOL-CLASS
MERSHIP DEPARTED THE BLACK SEA ITH A DECK
CARGO WHICH INCLUDED FOUR FLOGGER TYPE C SHIPPING CONTAINERS,
SIX FLOGGER-ASSOCIATED SHIPPING CONTAINERS, AND ONE
FISHBED-ASSOCIATED SHIPPING CONTAINER. (NFOIO, 042144Z JAN 83,
(SWN) AT LEAST 11 FLOGGER HAVE DEPARTED SAYQAL SINCE
ONLY 21 ARE PRESENT. THE 32 FLOGGER, 25X1
NORMALLY HERE, WERE PRESENT THE ABSENT FLOGGER 25X1
HAVE PROBABLY DEPLOYED TO SHAYRAT AIRFIELD 25X1
WHERE 16 FLOGGER WERE OBSERVEDI 25X1
(SWN) SAYQAL AIRFIELD IS 42 NM EAST-NORTHEAST OF DAMASCUS,
135 NM SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF AL LADHIQIYAH, AND 95 NM
SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF SHAYRAT AIRFIELD. THE AIRFIELD, A HARDENED
AIRCRAFT SHELTER-EQUIPPED FIELD, SUPPORTS A FLOGGER FIGHTER
UNIT AND A FLOGGER UNCRATING/ASSEMBLY FACILITY.
COORDINATES 33-41-1ON 037-13-18E
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lytical work. Their use should be restricted to the particular briefing board(s) they were prepared for
and must be considered valid only for the reporting period as indicated by the date of issue.
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