MISSION 1114-1, HIGH EXPLOSIVES FABRICATION AND TEST COMPLEX, TSU-TUNG, CHINA

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• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: April 19, 1971
• Content Type: REPORT

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RE'F'ERENCE T0: Mission 111+-1 HIGH EXPIASIVES FABRICATION AND TEST COMPLEX,
TSU-TUNG, CHINA
1. SIGNIFICANCE:
2. IACATION:
3. REMARxs:
~+. COLLATERAL:
5. FIRST IDENTIFICATION:
6. NEGATION DATE�
A HIGH EXPIASIVES FABRICATION AND TEST COMPLEX
WHICH MAY BE NUCLEAR ASSOCIATED WAS NEWLY IDENTIFIED
NEAR TSU-TUNG. CERTAIN SIMILARITIES ARE NOTED
BETWEEN THIS COMPLEX
THE COMPLEX IS AT 31-50N, 10~-1'~E,~ 13NM NORTHEAST
OF TSU-TUNG.
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should be restricted to the particular briefing boards (s) they were prepared for and must be considered valid only for the re-
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7. SUBSEQUENT COVERAGE: TWO KH-~+ MISSIONS
8. -~DIMENSIONS~ NONE
SPECIFICATIONS:
9. MISSION READOUT: 13 NM NE OF TSU-TUNG. THE NEWLY IDENTIFIED
COMPLEX CONSISTS OF FOUR SEPARATE AREAS LOCATED IN NARROW VALLEYS. NO
NUCLEAR COMPONENTS FABRICATION FACILITIES HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AT ANY OF
THESE FOUR AREAS.
AREA 1, THE SOUTHERNMOST AREA OF THE COMPLEX, IS THE HE FABRICATION
AREA. TWO STRUCTURES AT THE WEST END OF THE AREA RESEMBLE STRUCTURES AT
AREA C,
ONE STRUCTURE CONSISTS OF TWO SEPARATELY REVETTED BUILDINGS WITH HIGH BAYS
AT ONE END THAT RESEMBLE THE HE PRESS BUILDINGS AT THE KOKO NOR FACILITY.
THE SECOND STRUCTURE CONSISTS OF THREE INTERCONNECTED BUILDINGS THAT
RESEMBLE THE HE FABRICATION BUILDING AT KOKO NOR. THIS SECOND STRUC~'[JRE
IS ISOLATED BY THE SURROUNDING TERRAIN AND NO REVETMENTS WERE IDENTIFIED.
THE ROAD TO THIS STRUCTURE IS SECURED. AT LEAST TEN OTHER HE FABRICATION
BUILDINGS AND 13 REVETTED HE STORAGE BUILDINGS ARE ALONG THE SOUTH SIDE OF
THE VALLEY. SUPPORT BUILDINGS ARE ALONG THE NORTH SIDE OF THE VALLEY.
AREA 2, WHICH IS NORTH OF AREA 1, IS THE HE TEST AREA, AND CONTAINS
THREE HE TEST POINTS. THE WEST TEST POINT CONSISTS OF TWO HE MAKE-UP
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should be restricted to the particular briefi~ boards (s) they were prepared for and must be considered valid only for the re-
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Group NPIC
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BUILDINGS, A FIRING CONTROL BUILDING, AND A TEST PAD UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
THIS TEST POINT IS SIMILAR TO TEST POINT 5, 25X1
THE TWO REPIAINING TEST 25X1
POINTS WERE IN VARIOUS STAGES OF CONSTRUCTION. THERE ARE THREE REVETTED
HE STORAGE BUILDINGS. A SMALL SUPPORT AREA IS AT THE SOUTHERN RIM OF
AREA 2.
AREA 3, WHICH IS NORTH OF AREA 2, IS THE CONSTRUCTION SUPPORT AND
MAINTENANCE AREA, CONTAINING AT LEAST 50 PERSONNEL, STORAGE AND WORKSHOP
BUILDINGS.
AREA ~+, THE NORTHERNMOST AREA, IS THE HE STORAGE AND PROCESSING AREA.
AT LEAST TEN HE STORAGE AND PROCESSING BUILDINGS HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED.
SOME OF THESE BUILDINGS ARE SINIIIAR TO THOSE IN THE HE STORAGE AND/OR
PROCESSING FACILITY (AREA F) AT THE KOKO NOR FACILITY THE 25X1
NORTHERN PART OF THE AREA CONTAINS TWO REVETTED HE PROCESSING BUILDINGS
WITH A SEPARATE SUPPORT AREA (NOT SHOWN ON GRAPHIC .
AREAS 1, 2, AND 3 ARE INTERCONNECTED BY ROAD. AREA ~+ IS SERVED BY
UNIMPROVED ROAD FROM AREA 3.

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should be restricted to the particular briefing boards (s) they were prepared for and must be considered valid ordy for the re-
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