RETRACTABLE HARDENED RADIO-RELAY ANTENNAS IN THE USSR AND POLAND

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May 1, 1982

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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/04/20: CIA-RDP82T00709R000200680001-1 I Secret imagery analysis report Retractable Hardened Radio-Relay Antennas in the USSR and Poland (S) Secret Z-14561/82 IAR-0039/82 MAY 1982 copy 17 0 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/04/20: CIA-RDP82T00709R000200680001-1 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/04/20: CIA-RDP82T00709R000200680001-1 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/04/20: CIA-RDP82T00709R000200680001-1 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/04/20: CIA-RDP82T00709R000200680001-1 SECRET it was extended only 9 meters high. A smaller concrete housing on the opposite side of the 1. (S/WN) R-400/404 radio-relay antennas have been identified at Sinda Radio Communications Transmitter Station/Bunker/Hard 56 nautical miles northeast of Khabarovsk, and Komso- molsk Joint Command/Command Post/Receiver/Bunker/Hard USSR. These antennas are mast-mounted, and the masts apparently can be retracted into a shaft set in an underground concrete housing. Similar concrete housings, which probably also contain retractable communications masts, have been identified at three other command posts in the USSR: Sary-Ozek Joint Command/Command Post/Bunker/Hard Ulan-Ude Joint Command/Receiver FacilI t /Bunker/Hard and Vistovaya Joint Command/Command Post/Bunker/Hard and at two Soviet command posts in Poland: Olesno Joint Command Transmitter Facility/Bunker/Hard and Olesno Joint Command/Command Post/Receiver Facility/Bunker/Hard Figure 1). At other Soviet command, control, and communications facilities, similar concrete housings containing retractable antenna masts may be present. 2. (S/WN) On at the Sinda transmitter station, a probable retractable mast with two R-400/404 radio-relay antennas was adjacent to the control bunker (Figure 2A). The mast extended 17 meters out of rectangular shaft set in an underground concrete housing. Two small, NI II 'A' AA Y S W E LI E I extended from one circular shaft. A cover, observed beside the housing on the imagery, was over the rectangular shaft on and no mast was observed on that date (Figure 2B). The concrete housing is[ square and of unknown depth. Imagery ofOshows that a cable conduit, subsequently earth-covered, connected the concrete housing with the control bunker (Figure 2C). 3. (S/WN) On at the Komsomolsk command post, an installation associated with a Theater of Military Operations (TVD), a probable retractable mast with an R-400/404 radio-relay antenna was extended 20 meters out of its concrete housing adjacent to the control bunker (Figure 3A). The concrete housing is and has three rectangular shafts of undetermined depth. The shafts, which may be more than 16 meters deep, usually are covered, and these covers are approximately meter high. From the R-400/404 mast was observed several times. On control bunker may also contain retractable masts (Figure 3B). It is and has five circular shafts of unknown depth, each with a diameter of 4. (S/WN) Concrete probable antenna housings similar to those at Komsomolsk are also at TVD- associated command posts at Sary-Ozek, Ulan-Ude, and Vistovaya. As at Komsomolsk, one probable antenna housing at each facility contains three rectangular shafts, while the other contains from two to six circular shafts. I~M~Hr I'~.I.n\Ir .. OL~Sft ? VISTOVAYA s. WNI NTEL Z-14561/82 RETRACTABLE HARDENED RADIO-RELAY ANTENNAS IN THE USSR AND POLAND (S) circular shafts are set in the same concrete housing. A short pipe-like object F Iti I. .A MOSCOW KOMSOMOLSK 0 SINDAO ULAN-UDE! ~ ?f C H I ? MONGOLIA r CA DV n7CV _1_ SECRET l 1 ..rte. CHINA 1.._ -I-/ 25X1 25X1 25X1 2.5X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/04/20: CIA-RDP82T00709R000200680001-1 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/04/20: CIA-RDP82T00709R000200680001-1 SECRET 5. (S/WN) Figure 4A shows the concrete housing with three rectangular shafts under construction at Sary-Ozek in September 1974. A second concrete housing, with circular shafts, was under construction at the end of a concrete passageway/conduit that extends from the control bunker. At Ulan-Ude, on E:] 25X1 a mast extended from the concrete housing containing circular shafts (Figure 4B), but no 25X1 specific antenna could be identified. 6. (S/WN) At Olesno, Poland, where two probable Soviet TVD communications facilities are under construction, concrete housings with probable retractable antennas have also been identified. Three are at Olesno Joint Command Transmitter Facility/Bunker/Hard, two adjacent to the facility's control bunker, and the third adjacent to a probable assa eway/conduit that extends from the bunker (Figure 5). The three housings each approximatelypassage quare, appear similar to the housing at Sinda. They extend 25X1 to an unknown depth belowground, and each housing will have one rectangular and two circular shafts. 7. (S/WN) At Olesno Joint Command Post Receiver Facility/Bunker/Hard (Figure 6), four concrete housings for probable retractable masts were under construction on Each housing is 25X1 connected to the control bunker by a passageway/conduit. Two of the housings, each with four rectangular shafts, are with a appendage. The shafts are0 25X1 The housings will extend underground 25X1 at least 18 meters when completed. A third housing is ith two rectangular shafts, and a 25X1 fourth is with at least one shaft. The depths of the third and fourth housings have not yet 25X1 been determined. (S/WN) All applicable imagery acquired from of this report. was used in the preparation 25X1 NPIC. RCA 03/0005/81, Soviet Theater of Military Operations (TVD) Hardened Command and 25X1 Control Communications Facilities (S) Aug 81 (TOP SECRET 25X1 (S) Comments and queries regarding this report are welcome. The may be directed to Soviet Strategic Forces Division, Imagery Exploitation Group, NPIC, -2- Z-14561/82 SECRET 25X1 2bX1 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/04/20: CIA-RDP82T00709R000200680001-1 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/04/20: CIA-RDP82T00709R000200680001-1 Iq Next 3 Page(s) In Document Denied Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/04/20: CIA-RDP82T00709R000200680001-1 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/04/20: CIA-RDP82T00709R000200680001-1 Secret Secret Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/04/20: CIA-RDP82T00709R000200680001-1