MISSILE HANDLING AND STORAGE FACILITY IN SOMALIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86T00608R000700120005-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 7, 1975
• Content Type: MEMO

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1. Con.wtruction of a nor., f is:il.:ity at the port of
Berbera in Somalia was begun by the (soviet':; in the
last half of 1973. It was not unti:t. Oanuar\' 1.975, that
we were able to identify the project(-. as a missile
handling facility. The installation could be completed
by thcel middle of this year.
2. We believe the facility is pa: imar i.1.y intended
as a cruise ntissilc handling and storage facility to
support Soviet naval operations in the Indian Ocean.
$inco there are no other Soviet ordnance storage
facilities in the area, it prob;'laly will be uscd as a
genera:t, wearlons storage area as well. As ?a secondary
role, the facility could handle surface-to-air missiles
or torpedoes. It also could handle and. store coastal
defense ant:Lship cruise missiles, but there are. no i,n'?
d:icati.ons . of preparation of firing sites for such
mi.ssil.es.
Thiuu memorandum was prepared in trc Office o:f'
S tratcgic 1?csea,c.'li. Queries and ecrrmen Ls ;iic J be
addre sed to extension 400.1.
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