SOVIET NAVAL VESSELS SIGHTED IN THE BALTIC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005300240003-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2007
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR (Baltic)
This material contains Information effecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
Ing of the sepionege Laws. Title 18. U.S.O. Secs. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorised person is prohibited
bylaw.
REPORT
SUBJECT Soviet Naval Vessels Sighted in the DATE DISTR. 9 December 19
Baltic
This is UNEVALUATED
NO. OF, PAGES
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
Early on 31 July 1954, six large Soviet destroyers were sighted northwest
of Pakri (N 59-20, E 24-00), 15 to 16 nautical miles from the coast, pro-
ceeding in line formation on an east-southeasterly course at a speed of
about 15 knots. The distance between individual destroyers was,200 to
300 meters. The first three destroyers of the group, which were apparently
new, looked like Type-15 destroyers. The leader bore the number 21.
The three rear destroyers of the group were of a type similar to the
first three, but had longer narrower stacks and a larger destroyer is-
land, and only the forward mast was a tripod.
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