SOVIET ACTIVITY ALONG THE TURKISH BORDER BETWEEN LENINAKAN AND YEREVAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008700160012-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: October 8, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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1, There were rio changes in the number of, j; -rsonnel of the Soviet guard posts.,,
Ho1;.ever,. th number of guard posts to the rorth of border post no., 429
was increased when a. new building was constructed, making a total of five
buiidinge.. The new guard cost building is surrounded by barbed wire, in--
side of v;!hi_c:'?i there are trenches and fortified positions
2~ On 23 kay 1951, battery binoculars (s a.c) were placed at .aradit gate (border
post riot, 2400; sic, 1420?) and at the watch Losers in the area of Kirnz~t (near
border pct ao.: 423),
1--15. Juan.c 1951
Tree-1^e were 'no changes in the border guard posts or fortifications; no repairs
wer. ,7,ade on fortifications.
1b May 1
ur.e 195?
.4, Firir-r, practice with o.uto rati c pistols, livht rrac'hine gguns, and rifles was
carry ed on dart ng t6i. r'eriod_
5. The attacirent to this report lists the mater r? 1. which wis transported by
rail b, tw een Leninakar, and Y: rov' -n dur.i 1 and
rg the periods i6-30 lay 195
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