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PRELIMINARY OAK
A LATER OAK EDITION.
21 JUN 1965
Declassification Review by NGA/DoD
NO. 1, MISSION
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PRELIMINARY SCAN OF MISSION 1-1 , DATED 10-15 JUNE 19 65
SHOWS THE FOLLOWING:
1. SIX DEPLOYED ICBM COM;,tXES AND THE TYURATAM MISSILE TEST
CENTER WERE COVERED BY CLEAR PHOTOGRAPHY. THESE WERE IMENI
GASTELLO, KARTALY, SHADRINSK, TYU + ., VERKHNYAYA SALDA AND YOSHKAR
OLA.
TATISHCHEVO WAS OBSERVED THROUGH SCATTERED CLOUDS.
KOSTROMA, KOZELSK, PERM, P,, TESK AND YEDROVO WERE ONLY
PARTIALLY OBSERVED THROUGH HEA 4 ODDS.
A NEW PROBABLE IIID LAUNCH SITE WAS IDENTIFIED AT THE PERM
ICBM COMPLEX.
THE REMAINING 13 COMPLEXES WERE LIGHTER CLOUD-COVERED OR NOT
COVERED.
2. NEITHER THE KAPUSTIN YAR/VLADIMIROVKA MISSILE TEST CENTER OR
THE EMBA MISSILE TEST CENTER ARE COVERED.
3. THE LENINGRAD AREA IS OBSERVED ON POOR TO GOOD QUALITY
PHOTOGRAPHY WITH SCATTERED TO HEAVY CLOUDS AND CLOUD SHADOW.
TARGETS OBSERVED INCLUDE THE LENINGRAD SW AMM/SAM LAUNCH COMPLEX,
A PORTION OF THE NW AMM/SAM LAUNCH COMPLEX AND THE AMM/SAM TRAINING
SITE. NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES OBSERVED.
4. SARY SHAGAN ANTIMISSILE TEST CENTER IS LARGELY CLOUD-COVERED
OR NOT COVERED, SITE 13 IS COVERED WITH INTERPRETATION LIMITED BY
HAZE.
5. THREE CLEARINGS -- ONE LARGE AND TWO SMALL -- ARE OBSERVED
JUST NORTH OF SA-1 SAM SITE E-31, MOSCOW. THESE CLEARINGS FORM A
SIMILAR PATTERN TO THOSE PREVIOUSLY OBSERVED AT SA-1 SITES E-05,
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6. THE CHEREPOVIETS PROF E, AMM/SAM LAUNCH COMPLEX IS OBSERVED
ON FAIR QUALITY PHOTOGRAPHY INTERPRE ION LIMITED BY HAZE.
CONSTRUCTION HAS PROGRESSED WITHIN ' NCH SITES, THE ELECTRONIC
SITE AND IN A BUILDING AREA NORTH O LAUNCH SITES. THE ARRANGE-
MENT OF FACILITIES WITHIN THE COMPLEX CLOSELY RESEMBLE THOSE AT THE
TALLINN AMM/SAM LAUNCH COMPLE
7. THE SASYKTAU MISSILE LA FACILITY IS 50 PERCENT CLOUD
COVERED. NO APPARENT CHANGES OBSERVED I-;CLOUD FREE PORTIONS.
8. THE SHUANG-CHEMG-TZU MISSILE TEST CENTER, WITH THE EXCEPTION
OF THE SSM LAUNCH FACILITIES, IS COVERED BY POOR TO FAIR QUALITY
MONO PHOTOGRAPHY. NO SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITY NOTED WITHIN THE
VISIBLE PORTIONS OF THE TEST CENTER. APPROXIMATELY 17 AIRCRAFT
OBSERVED AT SHUANG CHENG TZU AIRFIELD.
9. ALL SUBMARINE BASES AND YARDS IN THE USSR NORTH SEA FLEET
ARE COVERED AS WELL AS THE PROMISLAVKA PENINSULA/VLADIMIR BASES
IN THE PACIFIC. POOR IMAGE QUALITY SERIOUSLY LIMITS IDENTIFICATION
BY CLASS.
10. THE SEMIPALATINSK NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROVING GROUND IS NOT
COVERED.
11. THE OPERATIONS AREA OF THE LOP NOR NUCLEAR TEST SITE IS
COVERED BY CLEAR POOR-QUALITY PHOTOGRAPHY ON TWO PASSES. THE
SUPPORT AREA IS COVERED ONCE ON CLOUD-FREE POOR-QUALITY PHOTO-
GRAPHY. AT GZ-1 AND GZ-2 THERE IS NO OBSERVABLE CHANGE FROM
E-15, E-24 AND E-33 TRIAD AREAS.
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OF DAMAGE TO STRUCTURES IN ARRAYS AROUND GZ-2. THE LARGE BRIDGE
SPANS ARE APPARENTLY INTACT. R{ EVIDENCE,.DF GROUND SCARRING AS A
RESULT OF THE 14 MAY TEST. TENTS CA: `IDENTIFIED AT THE MAIN
CONTROL POINT. QUALITY PREVENTS I D
FICATION OF AIRCRAFT AT
SUPPORT AREA AIRFIELD. NO EVIDENCE OF PREPARATIONS FOR FURTHER
TESTS ARE OBSERVED.
12. AT CHIH-CHIN-HSIA HAZE A ATTERED CLOUDS LIMIT INTER-
PRETATION. SOME PROGRESS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE 4 COOLING
TOWERS AND THE REACTOR BUILDING OBSERVED.
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