OAK MISSION 1015-1 20-24 DECEMBER 1964

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• Publication Date: December 1, 1964
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PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION REPORT
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MISSION 1015-1
20-24 DECEMBER 1964
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
TRACK OF MISSION
HIGHLIGHTS
MISSILES
AIR FACILITIES
NUCLEAR ENERGY
NAVAL ACTIVITY/PORTS
MILITARY ACTIVITY
OTHER ACTIVITY
INDEX OF COMOR TARGETS
ATTACHMENTS
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MISSION 1015-1
PREFACE
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THIS IS THE FIRST AND ONLY OAK REPORT ON MISSION 1015-1 AND PROVIDES
INFORMATION ON THOSE COMMITTEE ON OVERHEAD RECONNAISSANCE (COMOR)
TARGETS OBSERVED ON THE PHOTOGRAPHY. COMOR TARGETS OBSERVED ON
MISSION 1015-1 ARE LISTED IN THE INDEX OF THIS REPORT.
TARGETS ARE ARRANGED IN THE OAK BY SUBJECT AND WITHIN EACH SUBJECT
BY COMOR TARGET NUMBER. TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY OBSERVED DURING
THE OAK REPORTING PERIOD ARE LISTED NUMERICALLY UNDER THE
APPROPRIATE SUBJECT AFTER THE LISTING OF COMOR TARGETS.
LOCATIONS OF TARGETS IN THIS REPORT ARE INDICATED BY THE COUNTRY
CODE PRECEDING THE COORDINATES.
SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHIC REFERENCES FOR EACH TARGET OBSERVED AND
REPORTED FOLLOW THE DESCRIPTION OF THE TARGET. PASS NUMBERS ARE
SUFFIXED WITH EITHER AN A FOR ASCENDING (SOUTH?TO?NORTH) OR
D FOR DESCENDING (NORTH?TO?SOUTH). FRAMES ARE INDICATED BY THE
LETTERS FR. THE LETTER F PRECEDING FRAME NUMBERS INDICATES THE
FORWARD CAMERA, AND THE LETTER A INDICATES THE AFT CAMERA. ABSENCE
OF THESE LETTERS INDICATES THAT THESE ARE FRAME AND INDEX NUMBERS.
UNIVERSAL REFERENCE GRID (X?Y) COORDINATES ARE GIVEN IN PARENTHESIS
AFTER THE FRAME TO WHICH THEY APPLY. THIS GRID IS IDENTIFIED AS
UNIVERSAL GRID NO 1, FEB 64. SYMBOLS INDICATING CONDITIONS WHICH
AFFECT THE APPEARANCE OF THE TARGET ON THE PHOTOGRAPHY ARE AS
FOLLOWS C (CLEAR), H (HAZE), CS (CLOUD SHADOW),
HC (HEAVY CLOUD COVER), SC (SCATTERED CLOUD COVER),
SD (SEMIDARKNESS), 0 (OBLIQUITY), S (SNOW), PQ (POOR IMAGE QUALITY).
OAK RECIPIENTS ARE CAUTIONED THAT THE INITIAL SCAN OF THE
PHOTOGRAPHY IS BEING ACCOMPLISHED IN A SHORT TIME AND PRIOR TO
FINAL REFINEMENT OF EPHEMERAL DATA. CONSEQUENTLY, FUTURE DETAILED
ANALYSIS MAY RESULT IN MINOR ALTERATIONS.
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1. ICBM COMPLEXES
COVERAGE OF THE 24 KNOWN DEPLOYED ICBM COMPLEXES AND TYURATAM
MISSILE TEST CENTER ON MISSION 1015-1 IS AS FOLLOWS --
ALEYSK, DROVYANAYA, GLADKAYA, ITATKA, KARTALY, OMSK, PERM, TEYKOVO,
YOSHKAR-OLA, AND ZHANGIZ-TOBE ARE COVERED BY CLOUD-FREE PHOTOGRAPHY,
HOWEVER, IN SOME CASES GROUND SNOW, HAZE, OR SHADOWS HINDER A
DETAILED READOUT.
DOMBAROVSKIY, KOSTROMA, OLOVYANNAYA, AND SVOBODNYY ARE COVERED BUT
DETAILS ARE OBSCURED BY SCATTERED CLOUDS, HAZE, AND GROUND SNOW.
ALL OTHER DEPLOYED COMPLEXES AND TYURATAM MTC ARE EITHER CLOUD
COVERED OR NOT COVERED.
25X1A 2. OLOVYANNAYA ICBM COMPLEX
TWO NEWLY IDENTIFIED SINGLE LLUS HAVE BEEN ADDED TO LAUNCH GROU'
THESE ARE DESIGNATED 011 AND DI2, AND MAKE A TOTAL OF 12 SINGLE
SILOS AT LAUNCH GROUP D.
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THIS COMPLEX NOW CONTAINS 6 LAUNCH AREAS DESIGNATED A THROUGH F.
LAUNCH AREAS Dv El AND F ARE NEWLY IDENTIFIED ON THIS MISSION.
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4. SHUANG-CHENG-TZU MISSILE TEST CENTER25X1A
THE CENTER IS COVERED BY CLEAR PHOTOGRALY EXLEPI FOR THE AIRFIELD.
THE ONLY ACTIVITY NOTED IS AT SITE Av SAM LAUNCH AREA.
5. AMM/SAM ACTIVITY
NO CHANGE IS OBSERVED THROUGH HAZE
CHEREPOVETS SUSPECT AMM/SAM LAUNCH
CONSTRUCTION CONTINUES ON THE DUAL
ACTIVITIES AT TALLINN, OLENEGORSK,
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AND GROUND SNOW AT THE
COMPLEX. AT ANGARSKT
HENHOUSE-TYPE STRUCTURES. THE
LENINGRAD AND ANTIPINSKOYE ARE
6. LAN-CHOU SAM SITE BI9-2 (MISSILE BONUS)
THIS SITE, LOCATED 17 NM SSW OF LAN-CHOU AT 035-47N 103-44E WAS
NEWLY IDENTIFIED AND ACCEPTED AS A COMPLETED SITE ON
FIVE MISSILE SITES. NO NEW MISSILE SITES WERE FOUND AS
IT IS NOW ABANDONED AND IS DROPPED FROM THE NPIC LISTINUS
THE RESULT OF A 25-NM RADIUS AREA SEARCH AROUND LAN-CHOU, HOWEVER,
HOLIDAY IN PHOTOGRAPHIC COVERAGE PRECLUDES NEGATION OF THIS SEARCH
AREA.
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7. ROCKET ENGINE TEST FACILITIES
THE TEST FACILITIES AT PERM, OMSK, AND KRASNOYARSK SHOW EVIDENCE OF
CURRENT TEST ACTIVITY INDICATED BY BLAST MARKS AT TEST STANDS. THE
ACTIVITY AT PERM IS THE FIRST EVIDENCE THAT THIS FACILITY IS
OPERATIONAL.
STATUS OF COMOR TARGET READOUT
SEVENTY?FOUR TARGETS WERE OBSERVED IN THE OAK REPORTING PERIOD AND
ARE LISTED IN THE INDEX AT THE CONCLUSION OF THIS REPORT.
TABULAR SUMMARY
A RECAPITULATION OF SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITY IS PRESENTED IN THE
FOLLOWING TABLES ON SUCCEEDING PAGES --
TABLE 1 -- SOVIET ICBM DEPLOYMENT
TABLE 2 -- SOVIET MRBM AND IRBM DEPLOYMENT
TABLE 3 -- SAM AND AMM DEPLOYMENT
TABLE 4 -- NUCLEAR ENERGY ACTIVITY
TABLE 5 -- AIRCRAFT ACTIVITY
TABLE 6 -- SUBMARINE ACTIVITY
TABLE 7 -- DATE AND TIME OF PHOTOGRAPHIC PASSES
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Table 1. Soviet ICBM Deployment
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Dornbaro, skiy ?0? 81
0
Drovyanaya '00000 C
Gladkaya' 0 0 0
Imeni Castello NI NI NI NI M M
Itatka 0 0 0
Kartaly 000E2 El
Kostroma C C C C C 0 C NI
Kozelsk C C C C C
Novosibirsk CCL CC
Olovyannaya 0 0 0 0*
Omsk 0
Perm 000000
Plesetsk. C C C C C C E E
Shadrinsk C C L
Svobodnyy 0000 C 000
Teykovo 000000
Tyumen C C
Ezhur M M NI M NI M
Verkhnyaya Saida C C C C C C C C
Yedrovo C C C C C C C
Yoshkar-Ola 000000
Yurya C C C C C C C C
Z hangiz-Tobe 00 ?00
Construction Status (C-complete, SI-mid, E-early)
Tyuratam MTC
Includes Launch Points I-IV, complete
51 ,ingle Ho, (r,-.1loy,k, 5-Don-
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Total Total Total
Soft Hard Launch
Sites Sites Positions
5
5
3
3
15
2
1
7
6
6
3
6
6
6
6
18
12
3
12
15
21
1
3
5
1
13
.10...
1
19
3
9
1
17
6
12
2
4
6
6
C
2
20
C
6
2
16
6
12
C
C
(2
3
25
5
C C C L C M XI 81
Deplo meat Total
77
73
277
10
9
35
Grand Total
67
62
312
Carried as Launch Group ...Total does not include to 5S81 pads at Launch Area F Newly identified
GastaUo, 6-Kartaly,12-01o, NIT(', 5-Z1angiz-Tobel
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Soft
MRBM
Geographic Launch
Area Areas
Western
121
Caucasus
3
Central Asia
2
Far Eastern
11
Totals 137
Table 2. Soviet MIIBM and 11113 ill Deployment
Soft
IRBM
Launch
Areas
Hard
MRBM
Launch
Areas
hard
IRBM
Launch
Areas
Total
Launch
Areas
11
18
11
161
2
3
8
3
1
4
10
1
2
14
15
21
20
193
Totals do not include 71 fixed field-type sites with total of 259 launch positions and one launch facility at
Sovetskaya Gavan.
Table 3. SAM and AMM Deployment
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Country
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237
SA-0
SA-1
SA-2
SA-3
SAM support
facilities
Probable
complexes
AMM/SAM
complexes
SAM
sites
AMM
13
56
979*
107
196
3
2***
1
1
19
1
22
5
47
3
16
30
6
18
2
3
1
11
2
1
4
13
4
245* 1
6
*Does not include 8 alternate sites. (4 in USSR; 4 in Egypt)
**Does not include 22 abandoned sites.
***Includes 1 suspect complex.
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launch
Positions
633
29
36
51
752
13
56
11 90
108
232
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