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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B03824A001200010079-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 25
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 20, 2008
• Sequence Number: 79
• Publication Date: December 7, 1970
• Content Type: CABLE

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MEMO FOR TIE RECORD: 3rd EDITION OAK REPORT ON MISSION 1112-1
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FOR OAK MESSAGE (EDITIONS OF THE OAK)
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THIS IS THE THIRD OAK REPORT7o( _MISSI3N 1112-1. FOR
ADDITIONAL PREFACE DETAILS SEE--OAK PART I F 1112-1.
PART I. MISSION HIGHLIGHTS
USSR
NUCLEAR ACTIVITY
1. TEST PREPARATIONS WERE 08SERVE7 AT LOCATION 12 AT. THE
SEMIPALATINSK iWPG SHAGAN RIVER TEST AREA. THE LARGE DRILL
RIG PRESENT ON APPEARED TO
HAVE BEEN REMOVED PARALLEL CASLE TRENCHES KITH FOUR
INSTRUMENTATION/DIAGNOSTIC STRUCTURES EXTEND-, TO THE NORTHEAST
OF THE DRILL HOLE. 0DETAtt'3-Wttt -OE' REPORTEb INN -A SUBSEQUENT
OAK EDITION.z
CHINA
MISSILE ACTIVITY
o 2. A POSSIBLE SS-"LAUNCH FACILITY: WAS OBSERVED UNDER
1, i. CONSTRUCTION; APPROXIMATELY MIDWAY 8FTWEEN LAN-C?HOU AND HSI-AN.
IN HILLY TERRAIN 25 NAUTICAL MILES FORTH OF THE CHENG-CHOU TO
LAN-CHOU RAIL LINE.
EGYPT
0 MISSILE ACTIVITY
3. SEVEN NEW SA-2-SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILE -SAMti SITES
WERE ILDENTIFIED ON THEY "ARE DESIGNATED AS
EGYPT SA-2 SITES 411 THROUGH-417.- THESE SITES ARE NOT IN THE
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-KILOMETER ZONE.
PART II. SIGNIFICANT RESULTS
0 A. PERISHABLE ITEMS " NONE
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APPROXIMATELY MIDWAY SETtEEN LAN-CHOU AND HSI?AN
THE POSSIBLE SSM LAUNCH FACILITY '!NDER CONSTR';5CTION IS
ROAD-SERVED AND IS LOCATED IN HILLY TERRAIP 2'~ NM NORTH OF THE
CHENG-CHOU TO LAN-CHOU RAIL LINE.
CONSTRUCTION CONSISTED OF AN OVAL.-SHAPED POSSIBLE LAUNCH SITE,
It BEING BULT ALONG A
RIDGELINE, A ROAD-SERVED:. EXCAVATED AREA IS 0" THE-HILLSIDE
BELOW THE RIDGE AND APPROXIMATELY- XU METERS 'T,325 FEETQ'-T0 THE
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