https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/eb8b2d2cfdbdd551cbcafb43f3211b59.pdf 202b68330e2bcabca47d16b808784a25 PDF Text Text S E C R E T ITEMS OF ECONOMIC AND TOPOGRAPHICAL INTELLIGENCE FROM CANADIAN SOURCES JANUARY, 1 9 5 8 Item No. P a g e No. PART I FINLAND 1. S h i p b u i l d i n g - LOVIISTA (U) 2. S h i p b u i l d i n g - WARTSILA (U) 1 ,... 2 INDOCHINA 3. Economic and Topographical Intelligence - General 4 Part A - Extracts from Team Officer Reports N.VIETNAM .... 13 Part B - Extracts from Team Officer Reports S.VIETNAM .... 24 Part B - Extracts from the Press 25 Part C - Additional Miscellaneous Intelligence 27 APPENDIX A - The Drafted Labour to Buildup the Country is the Duty of Every Citizen 30 APPENDIX B - Provisory Regulations for the Mobilization and Disposition of Drafted Labour in Peace Time 31 APPENDIX C - Further Explanations on Mobilization of Manpower * 40 APPENDIX D - Report Submitted on Reassignment Fixed Team DONG DANG , 42 PART II U .S .S »h» 4. Merchant Vessels (S) 5. Northern Sea Route - Shipping Activity (C) 137 6. Ports - 138 (a) KOVDA (S) •(b) KYEM (S) 52 139 �UNCLASSIFIED FINLAND SHIPBUILDING Shipyard a t LQVIISTA Source v i s i t e d t h i s s h i p y a r d a t a p p r o x i m a t e ly 1930 l o c a l t i m e , on October 17th > 1 9 5 7 . Work was b e i n g c a r r i e d out a t t h i s t i m e and a p p a r e n t l y continued On a 24 hour b a s i s . The main c o n t r a c t was f ar t u g s and b a r g e s being b u i l t f o r R u s s i a . The c o n t r a c t was. s a i d t o be f o r 30 b a r g e s per y e a r . As a number of them a r e completed, a t u g i s a l s o completed and tows the b a r g e s t o R u s s i a . The b a r g e s were b e i n g b u i l t on an assembly l i n e , moving down t h e ways a t s t a g e s . The barges a r e about 250 f e e t l o n g , with a beam of about 30 f e e t , and drawing p o s s i b l y 8 t o 12 f e e t when l o a d e d . They a r e f l a t bottomed. Four upper deck cargo h a t c h e s a r e f i t t e d . There i s no means of p r o p u l s i o n , but a d i e s e l i s f i t t e d a f t i n a lower compartment t o provide e l e c t r i c power. The l i v i n g accommodation f o r c a p t a i n and crew i s l u x u r i o u s . The t u g s were a p p r o x i m a t e l y 110 f e e t l o n g , with a b e a m of about 25 f e e t . Main p r o p u l s i o n was b y 2 d i e s e l s f i t t e d e i t h e r s i d e of t h e engine room, about m i d s h i p . One r a d a r s e t was f i t t e d and appeared t o be about 3 cm wave l e n g t h . A singl e r a d a r d i s p l a y of 8 i n c h P . P . I , type was f i t t e d on t h e p o r t s i d e of t h e e n c l o s e d bridge-wheelhouse.combined. P . P . I , range s c a l e s w e r e . 5 , 1 , 2 , 5, 1 0 , 20 m i l e s or k i l o n e t e r s . On t o p of t h e a f t e r s u p e r s t r u c t u r e , f a c i n g t h e s t e r n , was a l a r g e winch with minesweeping c a p a b i l i t i e s . I t had drums f i t t e d on e i t h e r s i d e , and a l a r g e c e n t r a l drum with l e v e l winding g e a r . E v a l u a t i o n : . A-2 Date: Source: October, 1957 RCN O f f i c e r UNCLASSIFIED �UNCLASSIFIED - 2 FINLAND SHIPBUILDING Shipyard a t W a r t s i l a This s h i p y a r d s p e c i a l i z e s i n t h e c o n s t r u c t i o n of i c e b r e a k e r s a n d has s h a r e d i n t h e war r e p a r a t i o n s l e v i e d b y t h e USSR t o the, e x t e n t of b u i l d i n g a t o t a l of 27 s h i p s ] t h e s e r e p a r a t i o n s were paid i n f u l l s e v e r a l y e a r s ago and sinc e t h e n t h e yard has been b u i l d i n g i c e b r e a k e r s under c o n t r a c t t o t h e Swedish, Russian and F i n n i s h Governments. This s h i p y a rd d e r i v e s a l a r g e p r o p o r t i o n of i t s s h i p b u i l d i n g r e s o u r c e s j e . g . d i e s e l e n g i n e s , p r o p u l s i o n motors and g e n e r a t o r s , from t h e o t h e r members of t h e W a r t s i l a i n d u s t r i a l empire which comprises 11 u n i t s i n a l l , i n c l u d i n g two shipyards. At the t i n e of the v i s i t (October 1957) two i c e b r e a k e r s , of v e r y s i m i l a r d e s i g n , were s e e n , one u n d e r c o n s t r u c t i o n on t | i e s l i p s f o r the F i n n i c Government, and t h e second u n d e r g o i n g t r i a l s and t h e f i n a l s t a g e s of f i t t i n g out f o r the Swedish Navy. I t was s t a t e d t h a t s u f f i c i e n t o r d e r s were on hand t o keep t h e s h i p y a r d f u l l y employed u n t i l 1962. The foDQcwing i s a l i s t of p o i n t s n o t e d d u r i n g the v i s i t , c o n c e r n i n g t h r e e d e s i g n s of i c e b r e a k e r s . The i n f o r m a t i o n was gaine d both from o b s e r v a t i o n and c o n v e r s a t i o n w i t h s h i p y a r d o f f i c e r s . 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Displacement: 7000 t o n s ( a p p r o x i m a t e l y) P r o p u l s i o n Machinery: S u l t s e r D i e s e l - e l e c t r i c of 12,00OSHP ( s u s t a i n e d ) on 4 s h a f t s , 2 forward and 2 a f t . Normal power d i s t r i b u t i o n 1/3 forward and 2 / 3 a f t , b u t up t o 50$ can be put forward i f r e q u i r e d . F u l l power v o l t a g e 400 V.A.C. P r o p u l s i o n machinery d i r e c t l y c o n t r o l l a b l e from b r i d g e . H u l l : a l l - w e l d e d c o n s t r u c t i o n u s i n g p l a t e t o a maximum t h i c k n e s s of 48 mm. Wood i s e x t e n s i v e l y used f o r d e c k s , i n t e r i o r f i n i s h i n g , g u a r d r a i l s , e t c . I t was n o t e d t h a t the h u l l welds a r e not ground l e v e l , i t b e i n g s t a t e d t h a t t h i s r e d u c e s c o r r o s i o n . The h u l l welding i s sampled o n l y b y X-ray and n o t 100% examined; however, the h u l l w e l d e rs a r e s p e c i a l l y q u a l i f i e d men. The s t a n d a r d t y p e of d o g - c l i p p e d W/T d o o r s and h a t c h e s a r e u s e d . H a b i t a b i l i t y : e x c e l l e n t ; accommodation of crew b e i n g two p e r c a b i n , f o r p e t t y o f f i c e r s , 1 p e r c a b i n . The p e t t y o f f i c e r s mess was f i t t e d w i t h mahogany p a n e l l i n g , very comfortable f u r n i s h i n g s . Forced a i r h e a t i n g is e x c l u s i v e l y used (no c o o l i n g o r m o i s t u r e removal or a d d i t i o n ) w i t h i n d i v i d u a l d u a l t h e r m o s t a t s f o r each space, Complement: Captain and 4 or 5 o f f i c e r s i n wartime; t h e Captain i s t h e o n l y o f f i c e r i n p e a c e t i m e , t h e remainder b e i n g non-commissioned o f f i c e r s a n d b e l o w . O b s e r v a t i on of the accommodations s u g g e s t s a t o t a l crew of 60 - 8 0 . Other f e a t u r e s : ( a ) E l e c t r i c c o n t r o l from b r i d g e of H a s t i e E l e c t r i c - H y d r a u l i c steering gear. (b) Designed endurance of 60 days maximum. (c) S t a b i l i z e r s w e r e o b s e r v e d , b u t b a l l a s t t a n k s w i t h a f a s t heeling capacity are f i t t e d . (d) No p r o v i s i o n i s made for l a n d i n g h e l i c o p t e r s , but a small h e l i c o p t e r could u s e the q u a r t e r d e c k i f g u a r d r a i l s , e t c . were removed. �UNCLASSIFIED Shipyard at Wartsila (e) (f) (g) B. (Con't) No provision for f i t t i n g gunmountings was observed, Decca Navigator is f i t t e d and two r a d a r s , 10 cm. and 3 cm. Two small Scotch Marine type b o i l e r s a r e f i t t e d i n a deckhouse to provide heat for domestic purposes. Future Design Icebreaker t o be b u i l t for Russian Navy 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Similar in size to the U.S. Navy's "Glacier", but of s l i g h t l y greater displacement. D i e s e l - e l e c t r i c propulsion of 22,500 SHP ( s u s t a i n e d ) . Forward propellers w i l l not be f i t t e d , but there w i l l be three shafts, the shaft providing 50% of the propulsive power. Will have an all-welded h u l l of maximum plate thickness forward of 54 mm. Will be f i t t e d t o carry and o p r a t e h e l i c o p t e r s . I t was s t a t e d t h a t the Royal Swedish Navy w i l l probably order one of these v e s s e l s . Evaluation: Date: Source: A-2 October, 1957 RCN Officers UNCLASSIFIED 000695 �SECRET INDO-CHINA ECONOMIC & TOPOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE - General The following are answers to questions submitted by the Joint Intelligence Bureau to the Canadian Delegation of the I.C.C.Si The information is dated 6th December, 1957. A. Construction The most important cement plant in South East Asia is located at Haipong near Hanoi. Under French ownership, the production of this plant was between 250J000 and 290,COO metric tons per year. (a) Vliat is the current cement production of the Haipong plant? (b) lf Jhat is its present capacity? (c) How many kilns are in operation? (d) How much cement is exported? (e) To whom? Is there an expansion of the plant in progress or1 contemplated? If so, how extensive is the expansion? ANSWERS (a) According to an informat the annual cement production i s supposed to be three-quarters of what i t was in the French period, or about 250,000 t o n s . The informat says t h i s i s high, and estimates current output a t 200,000. He says CHINA takes almost a l l - 15,000 tons a month, or about 180,000 tons a year. (b) No information. (c) No Information. (d) See (a) above. (e) No information. B. Power There are several fair sized coal fired electric power plants in Hanoi and Haipong. In addition, many of the smaller communities and most of the industrial enterprises in the area have small diesel, gas or hydro power plants. Prior to the unsettled situation, Hanoi and Haipong were connected with smaller communities in the Tonkin Delta by a power system consisting of 700 kilometers of 50 k.v. transmission lines. w e would be interested in any evidence that specific power plants are in operation or are being restored: any evidence on the use of transmission lines, restration of work or new construction of lines, evidence of foreign technicians present in connection with the restoration work. ANS'^RS Some information applicable under this heading will be found in PART A "Periodic Miscellaneous Intelligence" of this paper. In addition, the following extracts have been taken from local news sources: �SECRET 4. $ 0. B. (ANSWERS CONT^D) , I (a) Nhan Dan, 12 Aprt 57: The TA XA hydro electric power plant now supplies electricity to the tin mine at CAO Bang. Supplanting power previously obtained from diesel motors, it is estimated that the three turbines now in operation will cut the cost of power to one-twentieth of its former figure (but see (d) below re cost). (b) Nhan Dan, 15 June, 57: A 118 km. long high tension line from HANOI to NAN DINH is expected to be complete in July, 1957. This line is to provide the additional power required for the operation of 600 new looms at the NAN DINH textile mill, as well as to provide light and power for the communities of HUNG YEN and THAI BINH. (c) The Vietnamese News Bulletin, 22 Jul. 57: A 42 km. long transmission line from HANOI to SON TAY was recently completed. This line provides electrical power for SON TAY and the PHU SA transformer which supplies power to a pumping station capable of watering 15,000 hectares of land in SON TAY and HA DAN provinces. Another line brings electricity to a pumping station which forms part of a major irrigation project completed last March to provide water for two districts of PHU THO province, (d) Nhan Dan, 25 Nov. 57: Ceremonies'to inaugurate the TA SA and NA NGAN hydro electric stations were held in TA SA. Both stations, whose reconstruction commenced in 1955 and was completed on 25 August, 1957, supply electricity to the TINH DUC tin mine in CAO BANG province. These are the first hydro electric plants equipped with Russian equipment. The NGUYEN BINH River is the source of power and the cost of this power is now one-sixth of what it was when supplied by diesel driven generators. Soviet technicians helped to build both power stations. C. Minerals and Metals (a) We would be most interested in knowing the present operation status of the iron and steel plant at BAC SAN near DAP CAN. (b) Are the iron ore mines in the Thair Nguyen areas (21° 55 fN 105° 57'S) working? Is ore being shipped? (c) Is the CO DINH chromite mine at MONG CONG, THANH HOA Province (20° 00'N 105° 50rE) working? Have the concentrating facilities been restored? (d) Is the mine at THINH TUC (22° 59'N - 105° 51«E) working? (e) Are there other mining activities, and what, if any, means have been used to conceal their existence? C. ANSVJERS (a) No information. (b) No information. (c) Yes, this mine is now working. The Vietnamese News Bulletin for 12 Nov 57 reports that the yearly production programme for this mine was "fulfilled" on 7 Nov 57. The Bulletin concludes "this is the only chromium mine of North Vietnam, and it resumed production in March last year'after many years abandonment due to -war". �SECRET - 6C ANSWERS CONT'D (d) Yes, see part B (d) above. (e) "le know of no means employed to conceal the existence of mining activities. If anything, the contrary seems to be true. The North Vietnamese seem quite anxious to publicize any economic effort or activity which would serve as useful propaganda for home as well as outside propaganda. For example, on 3 Jul 57, the Vietnamese Hews Bulletin announced that thirty-six mineral deposits were discovered by North Vietnamese geologists during the past six months. Thirty-three of these deposits were said to be located in the Northwestern border province of LAI CHAU including a coal and two lead deposits. The three others (presumably coal?) are located in the HONG GAY - GUANG YEN coal area. The account goes on to say that a deposit of "rare metals" was also found in the VIST BAG Autonomous Region, and that the Geological Service had, in addition, received many ore samples from thirty places believed to contain mineral deposits. The item concluded with the statement that in 1956, over fifty mines in North Vietnam were prospected and evaluated, and "metalliferous and non-metalliferous" mines were involved containing coal, lead, zinc, tin', iron, copper, mercury and phosphate. On 5 July 57, Nhan Bah reported that the thirty-three deposits (mentioned above) are located in the DIEN BIEN PHY and TUAN GlAO (LIA CHAU) regions and that among these are the important coal deposits of NA SANG and the lead deposits of PU PHA and TEAM NAM. Three new phosphate deposits have been discovered at HAOANH BO, CAM IE and ANG Ml) (HONG QJJANG area). A vein of rare metals was "detected" in LANG SuN. D. Coal (a) Is there any evidence of equipment such as bulldozers, tractors clam shell bucket diggers and drills for use in open-pit coal mining brought in from the USSR and/or China? (b) Normally, the production of coal has been larger than required for local consumption thus permitting sizeable tonnages to be exported by water from coastal ports to Japan, France and Hong Kong and at one time to China, as well as for the bunkering of ships, "'"ith these markets closed, our interest now centres on vrtiat disposition the Communists will make of whatever amount of coal they produce. Working with antequated and inefficient mining equipment has placed a premium on manpower and the war has seriously depleted labour reserves. If the communists intend to maintain and increase production before modern equipment can be provided, they will have to increase the labour force. We would, therefore, be interested in any apparent increase in the number of people working in or around the coal mines and any appreciable increase in the tempo of activity in the mining areas. D. ANSWERS (a) There is evidence that heavy equipment is supplied from outside sources. (See part A, para 20(b) and (e)). It would appear that Czech technicians as well as Czech equipment are providing the necessary assistance. �SECRET -7 D. ANffllERS CONT'D (b)(i) The current production is estimated at 1,000,000 tons. About 10% of this is consumed in the mines. Another similar quantity is consumed in the country, i.e., railroads and generation of electric power in HANOI and HAIPHuNG. This leaves about 500,000 to 600,000 tons per year for export, valued at about eight to nine million dollars. Part of this export is used to pay off the old French owners under the terms of transfer to Vietnamese ownership. Most of the rest is marketed by the Czechs. In return for coal, various products are received, mostly of poor grade. The coal consists of two-thirds dust suitable for industrial heating and marketable chiefly in Japan* The remaining one-third is high grade anthracite marketable anywhere at a good price. The mines are said to be becoming increasingly dangerous because of the faulty system of mining in recent years, (ii) On 12 Nov 57, it was reported in a local news bulletin that the Mao Khe coal mine in the HONG GAYQUANG area achieved 95% of its yearly production quota. The mine workers "overfulfilled" the October monthly production by 15% in honour of the fortieth anniversary of the USSR October Revolution. This was achieved by following a "more rational chain production and introducing an electric sorter made by the engineering workshop of the mine". 1. Consumer Goods (a) We are interested in consumer industries and would appreciate information reflecting the levels' of activity at the key plants listed below: i) ii) iii) iv) Societe Colonniere du Tonkin NAM DINH. Societe des Filteries de L'Indo Chine, HAIPONG. Societe Franco Vietnamienne de Textile et 1'Exportation. NAM DINH. Artisan production of consumer goods (e.g. weaving co-operative at HADONG. (b) In regard to the production of consumer goods by artisans, we would like to ascertain not only the level of activity but the extent to which artisans are incorporated into the state economic organization (co-operatives etc.) or are displaced by industrial production. (c) Are such goods as clothing, soap, cigarettes etc., available for sale to the population? E. ANSWERS (a) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) No information. No information. See Para B(b) above, No information (b) No information. (o) Yes, but prices appear to be highly inflated. For example, a small tin of "Kiwi" shoe polish sells for 5000 dongs, about US 1.30 at the rate of 3725 to the dollar). �SECRET - 8F. Rice Production North Vietnam has traditionally been unable to produce enough rice to support its population. This inadequate production has been further hampered by droughts, floods, typhoons and the effects of the forced land reform programme. (a) We would welcome any personal observations of drought or famine conditions. TfT (b) e would be interested to learn the amount and origin of any rice shipments from Bloc or free world countries or shipments from North Vietnam to these countries. F. ANSWERS (a) None (b) It is estimated that rice exports last year reached close to 100,000 tons. At about $80. or $90. a ton, this equals the value of the coal export. It appears that rice exports can be maintained only if there is a combination of three factors: i) ii) iii) Peasants' consumption is held down, A good crop, Compulsory deliveries to the state buying agency. This combination of factors applied last year, but cannot be relied on regularly. G. Chemicals Chemicals and chemical production is of great interest to us. (a) We should like to know whether there is any chemical fertilizer being used in agriculture in Indo China, and what chemicals are being imported by North Vietnam. (b) Is there any evidence that the Viet Minh Manufactured chemicals? (c) Are any of the following resources being exploited in North Vietnam? i) pyrites ii) sulphur iii) phosphate rock iv) salt v) .limestone (d) Any other information on the manufacture or export of the usual critical chemical materials such as alcohol, superphosphate explosives and the like would be most welcome. G. ANSWERS (a) No information other than that from time to time large quantities of Japanese manufactured ammonium sulphate have been seen at the port of HAIPHONG. Presumably this is used as fertilizer. (b) No �SECRET - 9G. ANSWERS CONT'D (c) (i) No information, (ii) No information. (iii)See para C(e) above j and Part A para 15(d). (iv)Salt. A "Congress on Salt Production"was held 16 to 22 Febi 57 in HANOI, convoked by the Minister Of Finance tp review the production of salt ih 1956, and to make plans fbr 1957, The Congress was attended by delegates from the Central Government and from eight salt producing provinces. The Vice Minister Of Finance pointed to achievements recorded despite "numerous difficulties caused by weather ahd by mistakes in land reform". Concluding the Congress* the Deputy Head of the Central Services of salt production outlined the plans for 1957. The 1957 target in salt production for "supply and stock" should be carried out to surpass last years' production by 11%. To achieve this, salt marsh areas will be expanded, money and implements will be loaned to salt producers; dykes and drips will be repaired. Meteorological teams will be set up in salt marshes to forecast weather and give producers advance warnings against typhoons. Mutual aid teams-will be set up to increase production. Living conditions of the producers will be better, and "will be led on the path of collective work". Existing co-operatives are being consolidated and new ones established. The purchase of salt and the control of its quality, as well as the "struggle against smuggling of salt" will be intensified (Nhan Dan, 18 to 25 February 57). (v) Limestone appears to be imported from China (see part A para 15(c)(iv)). (d) No information. H. Communica tions (a) Any indication of wire communications construction and reconstruction in Viet Minh areas would be most welcome. (b) Estimates as to which routes carry the heaviest traffic and any indication of Chinese aid to the Viet Minh would be useful. H. ANSTiERS (a) (i) From Nhan Dan, 4 Mar 57: "For the first time in the history of our past, telephonic and telegraphic communications, these are equipped with modern machinery. At present our wireless, telephonic and telegraphic network spreads over different zones, provinces, cities inside the country, and connects with several foreign countries. Hanoi can now speak with Peking, Moscow, Warsaw, Prague, Budapest and Berlin." (ii) Wireless communications for the receipt and transmission of telegrams between North Vietnara and Laos was established on 25 March 57 (Nhan Dan 24 Mar. 57). (iii) Radio-telephone communications were inaugurated 1 Aug. 57, between North Vietnam and Hungary. This is the fifth country to be so connected to North Vietnam, and others being China, the USSR, East Germany and Poland. �SECRET - 10 (iv) Statistics from Nhan Dan, 20 Aug. 57, on existing systems of communication: Railways: 335 km "rehabilitated" 656 km in operation Motor Roads: 575 km newly built 6,560 km in operation Telephone Lines: 1,492 km 11,878 km newly installed in operation Port Capacity: In 1939: Haiphong Harbour available for ships up to 600 tons. In 1957: Haiphong Harbour a v a i l a b le for ships up to 10,000 t o n s . (b) No indication of which routes carry the heaviest telecommunications t r a f f i c . Nhan Dan for 4 Mar 57 reported t h a t , on 2 Mar. 57, a Materials Testing I n s t i t u t e as well as the Central Post and Telegraphic Office, and a state-owned Automobile Tire Repair Factory were inaugurated under the auspices of the Department of Post and Communications, and t h a t the complete machinery for these i n s t a l l a t i o n s was supplied by the People's Republic of CHINA. The M a t e r i a l s Testing I n s t i t u t e i s reported to be capable of t e s t i n g the quality and r e s i s t a n c e of various m a t e r i a l s such as wood, cement, ferro-concrete, iron, s t e e l , stone, earth and a s p h a l t . I . Railways (a) Describe in detail any change of gauge transloading station constructed in the Chinese border area (Particularly in the Nam Q,uan area) or elsewhere in Viet Minh territory for transshipment of freight from lines of one gauge to those of another, including method of transloading, number and layout of tracks of each gauge, approximate length of time required to unload and reload one car of freight, and extent of mechanization of loading. (b) Report any information obtainable, following the restoration of railroad service, concerning actual freight traffic movement on individual lines, such as the number of trains per day in each direction, approximate average number of cars per train, approximate net or gross tonnage (indicate which) of each car, average speed of trains, and any details regarding the type and quantity of freight carried in each direction. I. ANSWERS (a) No information. (b) No information, but the following may be of interest: (i) HAN DINH - NINH BINH Line: 18,423 m 3 of stone have been layed to reinforce the road bed. "Generally speaking, the laying of rail was good". (Nhan Dan, 11 Feb, 57). This completes the first section of the HANOI-THANH HOA railway line which is being restored. (Nhan Dan 17 Apr. 57). �SECRET 11 - (ii) YUNNAN (CHINA) - HANOI Railway: After 11 months' work, the foundations of the railroad linking BICHSAC TRAI (YUNNAN) to HA KHEOU, (near the Sino-Vietnamese border) has, in the main, been completed. Track laying has now reached QUA CO. Several bridges have been built across rivers and valleys, and several stations erected at the foot of mountains. After 17 years' suspension, the YUNNAN-HANOI railroad will be soon reconstructed. (Nhan Dan 12 Jun 57) (See also P&rt A, paras 1 to 4), Chinese workers are continuing the laying of tracks on a section of 177 km. from HO KHAU (HA KHEOU?) to BICH SAC TRAI. The most important bridge in HO KHAU has been repaired and trains can now travel over it. The piers of 57 other bridges have been reconstructed. Six out of nineteen damaged tunnels have been repaired. It is expected that this 854 km. railroad, formerly known as the INDO CHINA - YUNNAN railway, will be completed early in 1958. (Nhan Dan 22 Jul, 57), J. Inland Water (a) What is the size, age, and composition of the inland waterways fleet? v/hat fuel is used? (b) Which inland water routes carry the heaviest trafic? What is the volume and composition of the traffic? What are the factors limiting the volume of traffic on each water route (size of locks, depth cf channel, etc.)? When are the periods of heaviest traffic on the inland waterways? What is the cargo moving in greatest volume at this time? (c) Where are the ship construction facilities? What types and sizes of vessels do they construct? (d) What are the daily loading and unloading capacities of the inland waterports? What mechanical loading and unloading facilities are available at each port? How much traffic does each port handle in a year? (e) What are the rates charged for inland water transport? J. ANSWERS (a) (b) (c) No i n f o r m a t i o n , (a) (e) An e d i t o r i a l in Nhan Dan of 28 Feb 57 s u g g e s t s t h a t p l a n s a r e underway t o develop North Vietnam's i n l a n d waterways and t h a t a t p r e s e n t state-owned and p r i v a t e l y - o w n e d r i v e r c r a f t a r e used t o t r a n s f e r r i c e , s a l t ( " f o r needy l o c a l i t i e s " ) , s t o n e ( f o r r e i n f o r c i n g d y k e s ) , s t a k e s ( f o r flood c o n t r o l ) and m a t e r i a l , t o o l s and machinery t o c o n s t r u c t i o n s i t e s . (See a l s o P a r t A para 16 ( y ) ) . The Vietnamese News B u l l e t i n for 26 Jun 57, r e p o r t e d t h a t work has commenced on i n c r e a s i n g t h e n a v i g a b i l i t y of the DA r i v e r , which o r i g i n a t e s in China and j o i n s t h e Red R i v e r i n SON TAY p r o v i n c e . This w i l l ensure the i n t e r f l o w of goods between t h e mountainous n o r t h w e st and the d e l t a a r e a . �SECRET - 12 - K« Coastal Shipping (a) What is the size and composition of the coastal fleet? Specifically, what proportion of the fleet is composed of junks? (b) What is the volume and composition of the traffic carried along the coast? What proportion of total traffic is carried by junks? When are the periods of heaviest traffic on the coastal routes? What is the cargo moving in greatest volume at this time? (c) What are the daily loading and unloading capacities of the coastal ports? What mechanical loading and unloading equipment is available at each port? How much traffic passes through each port in a year? K. ANSWERS (a) (c) No information. L. Air We would welcome any details available concerning Viet Minh Civil Aircraft including type, number and nature of operations. L. ANSWER M. (a) Nhan Dan, 15 Apr 57, r e p o r t e d t h a t N o r t h Vietnamese and Chinese i m p o r t - e x p o r t a g e n c i e s signed an agreement f o r t h e purchase by Nor-th Vietnam of a c i v i l a e r o p l a n e . The agreement was dated 11 Apr 57, No f u r t h e r d e t a i l s a r e a v a i l a b l e . (b) We know of no c i v i l a i r c r a f t owned by t h e Vietnam C i v i l A v i a t i o n S e r v i c e o t h e r than t h e t h r e e Dakota - type Russian b u i l t p a s s e n g e r a i r l i n e r s (used t o t r a n s p o r t IC p e r s o n n e l t o VINH and DONG HOI) and two or t h r e e small Czech b u i l t twin-engined four-passenger a i r c r a f t . Forced Labour I s t h e r e any evidence of the use of forced l a b o u r by t h e DRV for dike r e p a i r s , road and r a i l r o a d c o n s t r u c t i o n , a i r f i e l d r e p a i r s , e t c . ? M. ANSWER Yes: see papers a t t a c h e d a s Appendices A, B, and C, �SECRET PERIODIC MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE - 13 PART A - EXTRACTS FROM TEAM OFFICER REPORTS NORTH VIETNAM LAO M Y 1. 24 Aug 57: No railway traffic across the CHINA Bridge, which is still being repaired. A ferry links PHO MAI railway station frith the CHA PA and BA XAT roads. The ferry is Used to transport equipment back and forth to the power project (picture attached). The complete area is closed to the IC team and includes: (a) (b) (c) 2. PHO MAI Railway Station CHA PA road and airfield Power project area. 16 Sept. 57: Construction of the CHINA bridge has been completed. 3. 17 Sept. 57: 5 flatcars of rails - one of steel sleepers (ties) entered CHINA. 3 card of lead ingots came from CHINA. 4. 21 Oct. 57: (a) Foreign Advisors: An unknown number of Russian specialists are employed on the Power Project approx l | km. from LAO KAY, SOUTH between the Red River and the railway. Polish geophysicists are stationed at CHA PA, comprising 2 or 3 meteorologists, a radio operator and a medical officer, (b) Vehicles: Few vehicles have been seen, although some 3-ton trucks driven by military personnel have been observed. On one occasion a bulldozer was seen. Both the Russian "specialists" at the power project, and the Polish geophysicists at CHA PA have Russian-type jeeps. (c) Power Project: Visible from a distance of 1 km. a power plant is under construction. Access to the site is denied. The structure appears to be reinforced concrete and brick construction, each about 150' long by 50* wide and 3 stories high. (d) Bridges: (1) The CHINA bridge is now functioning normally. Approximately 75 yds. long, it carries the railroad across the BLUE River into CHINA. (2) The LAO MY Bridge joins parts of the town on either side of the Red River. The bridge was destroyed and has since been converted to a temporary suspension bridge passable to foot traffic only (this includes ponies and bicycles), A power ferry which parallels the bridge is capable of carrying vehicles. The river is approximately 200 yds. wide at this point. (e) Railroad Construction: i) A marshalling yard is being constructed. ii) A new spur into the power project is being built from PHO MAI. iii) 12 to 15 carloads of rail and "sleepers" have been noticed crossing into CHINA. The cars usually return empty or upon occasion carry lead ingots ostensibly in transit through NORTH VIETNAM and back into CHINA at DONG DANG. (f) Railway Line: Thus far, no scheduled trains are running. �SECRET - 14 5. 25 Oct. 57: A train from CHINA was controlled. It carried 5 carloads of lead ingots and 15 empty cars. On several occasions explosions were heard coming from the West which sounded like mortar bombs or even artillery shells exploding. PAVN Interpreter professed ignorance as to the origin of the explosions. 6. 16 Nov. 57: (a) A rifle range was noticed about 4 km. outside of LAO KAY on the CHA PA road. Mortar, MG and rifle fire continues to be heard from the direction of the CHA PA road. (b) The LAO KAY - BA XAT Road is jeepable for 4 to 6 km. and in dry weather only. The balance of the way to BA XAT (about 21 km) is not passable to jeeps and major road repairs and some bridge building is required. (c) The LAO KAY - BAN PHIET Road (10 km) is jeepable for the first 4 km. in dry weather only. DONG DANG 7. 39 Aug. 57: The DONG DANG - THAT KHE - CAO BANG ROAD is under repair as follows: filling potholes, clearing verges, improving drainage, replacing small bridges and repairing fords. 8. 51 Aug. 57: Heavy tire tracks were seen leading in from across the CHINA border on the DONG DANG - LONG TCHEOU (CHINA) road. Seldom, if ever, has heavy load-carrying vehicular traffic been seen on this road. 9. B Sept. 57: A train from CHINA was controlled. Load included 14 large drums of electric cable from the USSR; 8 smaller drums of copper wire from CHINA, 8 or 10 electric generators and one carload of auto tires. 10. 9 Sept. 57: A train from CHINA was controlled. Load consisted of 14 cars of transformers, cables, circuit breakers, generators, steel and chemicals for HANOI University. 11. IS Sept. 57: (a) It is estimated that a company of infantry is located adjacent to the teamsite. At least one company of infantry is estimated at each of the following localities: LOC BINH, CAO BANK and DONG KHE. When observed, training of these troops appeared to be confined to company field exercises and "dry" rifle target practice. Different types of infantry weapons were seen including the US .50 carbine. Also seen were 4 in. RCLs (probably of the type manufactured locally during the War of Resistance). (b) Road repairs have been carried out along the DONG DANG - CAO BANG road and the DON KHE - FHUC HOA road. This work is by hand labour and consists mainly in filling potholes and repairing or replacing culverts and small bridges. (c) Telephone communications exist between LANG SON and CAO BANG. Survey parties have been seen in the DONG DANG - LANG SON area. Their interest seemed to be centred on the railway and the roads. �SECRET - 15 - 12. 27 Sept. 57: Training on 81 mm. mortars has been observed near LANG SON. For drill purposes, bamboo tubes of approximately the correct calibre are used. In one instance, a true 81 mm. mortar was concealed in a stretcher in order to be kept out of sight from the Team, 13. 25 Oct. 57: Large quantities of limestone have been observed coming in from CHINA by rail. 14. 2 Nov. 57: The DONG DANG - HANOI road is cut at km 25, South of LANG SON and is closed to traffic, (info supplied by PAVN Liaison Mission). 15. 4 Nov. 57: (a) A new bridge is under construction at PHU LANG THUONG. (b) Convoys of 20 to 30 trucks have been seen daily moving rice and millet from the CAO BANG - DONG KHE and TEAT KHE areas to the railhead at DONG DANG. Trains of approximately 12 cars were loading the rice and millet daily for shipment South, presumably to HANOI. (c) During the past two weeks trains from CHINA were observed carrying large quantities of the following goods: i) Electrical goods (wire and insulators) ii) Lead covered cable. iii) Oil storage tanks and steel plate for the manufacture of these tanks. Approximately 12 complete 5000 gal. storage tanks were also seen, iv) Limestone and fire brick, v) Newsprint and printer's ink. (d) Main exports to CHINA through DONG DANG consisted of fertilizer (mostly phosphates). On inquiry, it was learned from the PAVN LO that the phosphates came principally from the LANG SON and LAO KAY regions. 16 • 6 Nov. 57: The following observations were made in CAO BANG in Sept. 57: (a) Gasoline Distribution in the North "A shipment of gasoline arrived in a bulk carrier of Russian manufacture, and probably of World War II vintage. Approximate capacity was 5000 gals. The gasoline was pumped into 45 gal drums which were subsequently stored in a building controlled by the PAVN. According to a PAVN LO, distribution of gasoline to all civilian and military outlets is controlled by the PAVN on a permit basis. (b) Electric Power: Non-hydro plants are inoperative in LANG SON and CAO BANG. The one at LANG SON is located at the South end of the railroad bridge and is of heavy concrete construction. It appears to. serve the town of LANG SON and its suburb of KY IDA only. The CAO BANG plant probably runs on gasoline and operates from 1800 to 2300 hours daily, and sometimes briefly in the early morning. No power transmission lines are in evidence in the vicinity. �SECRET - li (c) Mines and Minerals: No shipment of ore nor any mining activity of importance was noticed in either LANG SON or CAO BANG provinces. Kaolin is mined at NUOC M I and calcite at many points SE of DONG KHE. At NUOC HAI there is a pottery plant which produces about 20 vessels per hour. (d) Grain: There has been intense grain activity in CAO BANG and LANG SON provinces. Shipments are made in 2gr ton trucks from CAO BANG via LANG SON and are probably destined for HANOI. As many as 60 to 100 loads per day were seen. A PAVN LO stated that these shipments consisted of maize from CHINA to relieve famine caused by poor rice crops due to drought in some regions Of NORTE VIETNAM. (e) Chemicals: No chemical fertilizers were seen in nor were any noticed to be available for use. Shipments of talc from CHINA were seen. It is reported that at LANG SUN explosives of a crude, nature are manufactured. (f) Communications: A single steel telegraphic line is visible along RC4 from CAO BANG Sast (presumably to TIEN YEN). A PAVN line from LANG SON to LOC BINH parallels this. One steel line enters from CHINA just East of NAM QUAN on the border. (g) Inland Water Transportation: Large bamboo and heavy timber (hardwoods) log rafts have been seen floating down the SONG ICY GANG from THAT KHE. A PAVN LO stated that the destination of these rafts was CHINA. The same was noted on the SONG BANG GIANG at CAO BANG. TIEN YEN 17. 25 Aug. 57: There are two army camps in the vicinity of Tien Yen. One is across the TIEN YEN River facing the town and the other is across the PHO CA River on the right side of the road to DINH LAP about % km from TIEN YEN. Some 200 to 300 infantry seem to be permanently located in the ares. As far as can be determined, training seems to consist mainly of academic courses, e.g. reading and writing. Some rifle drill was observed from 0600 to 0800 hrs. Basic light infantry weapons such as rifles, SMGs and IMGs were seen, but no mortars or heavier weapons. 18 * 9 Sept. 57: The road to MQN CAY was travelled in wet weather. Little improvement in the condition of the road was noted. It crosses hilly country and at this time of year is dangerous. Including the one at TIEN YEN, there are 5 ferries and a total of 12 fords of v/hich 4 are permanently under water. Bridges for the most part are quite small and consist of 2 steel girders supporting a plant roadway. Some effort appears to have been made to fill potholes. 19. 20 Oct. 57: Repair^ are being carried out on the TIEN TEN - CAIvi FHA Road. A big road project (repairs and widening) appears to be underway on the GAM PHA - HON GAY road. 20. 28 Oct. 57: (a) Military training in vicinity has broadened to platoon and company exercises as well as considerable range activity. There was lots or aiming practice with large numbers of snap targets in paddies. Some training with 81 mm. mortars was observed. 000708 �SECRET - 17 (b) Four new Russian 10-ton military trucks were observed in a compound across the bay at HON GAY. Pillboxes built in the French era are unoccupied and little effort seems to be made to maintain them. According tc a PA.VN interpreter a number of AA guns sites are located in seme of the islands in the BAIE D'ALONG. (c) The town of TIEN YEN has no electricity. Telephone communication exists between TIEN YEN and CAM PHA and HON GAY. TIEN YEN is linked by telegraph with HANOI and MON CAY. (d) It is reported that it costs a mine worker 2 weeks wages to purchase 3 tins of condensed milk. One source estimates that about 80% of the mine workers at CAM PHA are women. (e) Czech technicians are still in CAM PHA and HON GAY - presumably to provide technical assistance for the operation of coal mines. What is believed to be a Czech trade delegation was seen in the CAM TEA area in September. Stockpiles of coal in the region seem to be building up. (f) At HON GAY a SO ft. launch with a crew of 4 or 5 was seen. It has a single gun of unknown calibre mounted forward. 81. 7 Nov. 57: (a) The port register at EON GAY revealed that only one ship loaded there in October. (b) The port register at CAM PHA showed that four ships loaded to date in November, 7 ships in October and 5 ships in September. HAIPHONG 22. 18 Sept. 57: An artillery regiment has been noticed in the area immediately west of the city. It is estimated that approximately 10,000 troops (Mostly infantry) are in the HAIPHONG - DOSON - CAT Bl (Airport) Q.UANG YEN area. No equipment has been observed. Small arms training only has been seen in this region. A barge and dredge are under construction at the local shipyard. 23. 27 Sept. 57: (a) The following twe items were obtained in conversation with the local French shipping agent, M. Jean Rollin: i) The workers at the CamPha coal mines "stayed away from work" during one period this year. This was not called a strike. The work stoppage was a protest against low wage-levels. It appears that wages at that time were only slightly above half the amounts paid during the French regime, when living costs were lower. It is not known how the local authorities dealt with this situation. ii) In common with the British Consulate, the French Shipping Agency employs more staff than is necessary for household and office, purposes. Such personnel is classed as 'privileged' and is restricted accordingly. A man so employed loses the right to have his children receive a free education. Presumably, he must pay for their teaching. Within recent weeks, the twenty-yea* old son of M. Rollin's senior house-boy was married. This young man is not permitted to work anywhere for payment, as his father i a privileged worker, and, presumably capable of supporting his family, even if they marry. �SECRET - 18 (b) According to a Vietnamese interpreter, the average Vietnamese has difficulty making financial ends meet. Normally, it seems, he must spend four-fifths of his pay on food alone. (c) On 26 Sept. 57 a sentry at the HAIPHONG fish factory was observed to be carrying a sub-machine carbine of a newer pattern than the World T;ar II Russian model usually employed. The weapon was roughly similar in design to the German SCHMEISSER with folding metal butt. Believed to be of Russian manufacture, but no markings were visible. (d) On 24 Sept. 57, while sailing in the BATE D'ALONG a British informant observed 2 small landing craft beached on one of the islands. 24. 1 Oct. 57: JunkM394T "Wing Sang" has been alongside since 26th August, 1957. Her Master has been fined 84,000,000 dongs for repeated smuggling offenses. (Watches in gold out). At the time of writing, 1st October, 1957, she has loaded a small amount of rice. The Customs authorities appear to have the right to levy such fines vdthout recourse to any court or magistrate. The authorities state they are extremely unhappy about this situation as they wish to foster trade with Hong Kong but the repetition of offences gave them no other alternative. A wide smuggling ring, involving merchants in Haiphong and Hanoi, has been uncovered. M394T's Master is a Hong Kong Chinese and the junk is registered there. 25. 6 Oct. 57: (a) Lightening of ships in the BAIE D'ALONG is now openly discussed. The master of the Polish ship "BALTYK" has stated that he will not risk loading his ship to a draught greater than 24 feet, alongside in HAIPHONG. He announced his intention of proceeding to BATE D'ALONG to complete loading. (b) It appears that a new dredger has been built in GERMANY for HAIPHONG, but that delivery is held up until payment is made. Apparently the Germans refuse to turn over the dredger until they are paid. The sum of one million dollars has been mentioned as the cost. (c) Small repairs to the edge of the runway and adjacent roads have heen completed at the CAT Bl airport. Underground electrical cables round the perimeter of the airfield have been exposed for repairs and reburied. 26. 8 Oct. 57: Informat states he cannot vouch for the truth, of the following: he has heard that the current rate for smuggling a person across the border into LAOS is 1,200,000 dongs. 27. 8 Nov. 57: The following observations were made during a trip along the HAIPHONG - HANOI road. (a) At approximately 11.5 km, west of HAIPHONG, a field artillery unit is located visible from the highway. The guns appear to be 105 mm. with 2g- ton prime movers of US make, and are in good condition. Also observed were 75 mm. pack howitzers. �SECRET - 19 (b) At HAI DUONG there appears to be a combined garrison and training centre, the latter probably AA artillery. Six AA guns under canvas were seen, as well as wires of the type usually put up for sliding model aircraft along for target practice. (c) At points 45, 36 and 25 km. east of HANuI, small infantry garrisons were observed. (d) A large factory of brick construction, consisting all told of 5 large buildings, was observed 11 km. east of HANOI. There is a branch power line leading into this compound. (e) A battery or troop of 85 mm. AA artillery equipped with an ordinary predictor, but no radar, was observed near the highway about 9 km. east of HANOI. 9 Sept. 57: (a) The following military groups participated in the National Day Parade on 2 Sept. 57: i) 1500 to 1800 Regulars of various arms ii) 200 to 400 Guerillas iii) 1500 to 2000 miscellaneous (militia and "pioneers" of both sexes). (b) The movement North of vehicles loaded with steel rails seems to sbop at VINH where railway tracks are used for such purposes as propping up houses, ballast for barges, etc. Despite this, on at least two occasions in August, a barge and some sampans were seen loading these rails as cargo. 24 Sept. 57: (a) Four large guns (probably 105 mm) canvas covered but make and origin unknown, were seen formed in a square in the area between the BEN THUY road and the new pier, and directly behind the new electrical station (not to be confused with the new power plant). (b) The main North-South road (RCl) through VINH is being repaired down to HA TINH. (c) Large new power transmission lines are being installed along the VINH - CON CUONG - MUONG SEN road. Approximately 20 boxes of power line equipment were seen lying along the roadside. (d) A large number of officers appear to be housed in a barrack block on the right side of the VINH - BEN THUY road. A platoon strength of officers were ween leaving the barracks, and on another occasion, more than 10* officers were seen along the road to the new pier. This might indicate the presence of a school of instruction for officers. (e) Army barracks appear to be located at BEN THUY, CUA LO and CUA HOI. �SECRET - 20 30. 25 Oct. 57: (a) Firing practice on a range located west of the power station on the BEN THUY road was observed. Small arms were fired into the face of a granite outcropping on the range of hills South of the BEN THUY road. The rifle range is set in about -4 mile from the road. (b) A PAVN patrol boat carrying troops and what appeared to be a French 75 mm gun lashed astern docked at the BEN THUY jetty on 22 October, 1957. The craft was observed by the IC team, and the skipper appeared dismayed at this and spoke sharply to the PAVN LO, who replied in kind. (c) Infantry exercises were seen being carried out in the CUA HO area on the west side of the coast road which is heavily wooded'. Nothing larger than platoon strength was noted* The area contains what appear to be guarded barrack blocks; which might be rest camps for troops. 31. 28 Oct. 57: (a) The troops in the area appear to be mainly infantry. Numbers of female soldiers have been seen. (b) The VLNH - HA TINH road is excellently maintained, but little traffic has been observed on the road. All the bridges and culverts appear to be recently repaired. (c) During the period 12 to 26 October, 1957, the PAVN conducted some sort of survey exercise over a four-mile stretch near RC1 North of HO XA. (d) A diver was seen at the bridge site near CAM XUYEN. 32. 2 Nov. 57: Military activity continues to flourish. Three camouflaged 3.7" high angle AA. guns have been seen in transit. Thirty 3-ton lorries carrying troops were seen entering VINH from the North on RC1. Range practice continues. 33. 8 Nov. 57: (a) VINH appears to have a principal Manning Depot for the PAVN. Approximately 150 civilians of military age were taking PT directed by PAVN soldiers in a barrack area located in the town. These may be new recruits drafted under the new conscription laws. (b) A platoon of PAVN soldiers were observed crossing the main ferry from the direction of HA TINH. They were equipped with 2 MMGs (calibre unknown) with tripods. The weapons resembled .50 Brownings, (c) The rifle range on the outskirts of VINH has a maximum range of approximately 500 yards. (d) Troops were seen for the first time in a barracks area located outside the village of NAM LAM (NAM DAN?). It is estimated that one battalion of infantry is located here. �SECRET - 21 (e) During a conversation with a PAVN interpreter, the following points were mentioned: i) The power plant now being constructed will be completed by December, 57, vdth enough power (8000 kw) to supply VINH with all its electrical power requirements. ii) A power sawmill will be built to increase the output of lumber. Power will be supplied from VINH. Hand labour is now used in sawmills. iii) Next year an irrigation system with a pumping station will be located near VINH. Exact location not stated. iv) It is planned to make VTNH an industrial centre ih accordance with the "Communist Plan" for North Vietnam; (f) A cargo of phosphates and coal was offloaded at the BEN THUY jetty. The vessel took on a cargo of peanut oil, in 45-gal drums, for HAIJHONG. 34. 13 NOV. ,57: The existence of a radar unit on HON NIEUE Island is suspected. A weather Station is known to be on this island. MUONG, SEN 35. 51 Aug. 57: In the area on either side of RC7 from CON CUONG - MUONG SEN - COL DE GIAP (Laotian border) none of the side roads are suitable for motor transport. 36. 26 Oct. 57: (a) Two small camps have been rebuilt near the Laotian border, suitable for accommodating a unit of company strength. The larger camp of the two is located about 5 km. from the border, consisting of 9 large buildings. The smaller consisting of 7 large buildings is located about 3 km from the border. Both sites are just off RC7. Not more than a platoon strength of troops were seen. (b) The helicopter landing area located about 500 metres East of the teamsite at MUONG SEN, has not been used for some time. 37. 10 Nov. 57: (a) A company of infantry appeared to be on exercise half-way between ANH SON and CON CUONG on RC7. Normal weapons were carried, but a high percentage of 60 mm type mortars was noted. (b) Near the Laotian border two elephants were seen carrying supplies. These beasts are apparently used by the PAVN to maintain the camps mentioned in para 36(a) above. 38. 17 Nov. 57: A PAVN propaganda truck is touring the area with a Russian propaganda film entitled "THE HERO ON THE CHIPKA MOUNTAIN" depicting the liberation of BULGARIA from Turkish domination. �SECRET DONG HOI 59. • - 22 - 25 Sept. 57: (a) The PAVN LO has .stated that an infantry division is located in GjUANG BlNH Province. The designation or location of the divisional HQ is not knowni (b) A movement of steel rails and metal sleepers to the North has been notedi One dump of approximately 150. lengths Of rail is located 6t HO: XA which is 3 km. Nbrth of, the EJAVN police post on the Demarcation Line; Rails are shipped frbm this dump North to DuNG HOl ih special trucks - each capable of carrying approximately 10 lengths of rail. Another dump of approximately 200 lengths is located at DONG H6l. From here shipment North is by meanS of sampans and road transport! Another dump is located on the South bank of the NGUON NAY River at S GIANG, holding approximately 200 to 250 lengths of rail. There is no evidence of any work being carried out on the railway right-of-way running through QUANG BINH Province. 40. 25 Oct. 57: (a) Steel, apparently for bridge construction, has recently been unloaded at DONG HOI. It appears that the bridge on the southern outskirts of DONG HOI is to be replaced. (b) PAVN personnel with survey instruments such as transits and directors have been seen north of HO XA carrying some sort of exercise or operation for the past two weeks. Flags and survey pickets were placed at various points along the road over a 4-mile stretch. 41. 28 Oct. 57: Eight military camps of various sizes are located in the immediate area of EKG HOI. When training was observed, it appeared to be confined to fieldcraft and the use of small arms. 42. 2 Nov. 57: A 150-ton barge was tied up at the pier at QUANG KHE near the ferry crossing, the barge was taking on approximately 600 lengths of steel rails. The P A W LO stated that the barge was to be towed North to HANOI and the rails used to complete a section of track along a railroad running South from HANOI. 43. 5 Nov. 57: Two armed motor launches (approximately 35 tons each) entered the harbour and anchored at the river mouth. The PAVN LO informed the IC team that the vessels were coastguard boats. No further information was provided. 44. 9 Nov. 57: Two army camps have been observed SW of PHONG LOG and another is located NE of the airport. Strengths are unknown. PEUC HOA 45. The following are excerpts from reports received from our team member on Mobile Team 136 recently deployed to PHUC HOA, near the Chinese border in the NE. 46. 9 Nov. 57: (a) The road PHUC HOA - QUANG UIEN - junction at MA PHUC is fair to good. Thirteen 3-ton vehicles were seen on this portion of the route. �SECRET - 23 (b) The road MA PHUC to TRA LINH is fair to poor. No traffic seen. (c) The road TRA LINH to the Chinese border is not used by vehicles. 47. 11 Nov. 57: Vehicular traffic cannot proceed beyond BAN GIOC on the QUANG UYEN - TRUNG KHAN PHU route. The road QUANG UYEN - TRUNG KHAN PHU is fair. Route 27 to BAN GIOC is not used for vehicular traffic. 48. 12 Nov. 57: The TA LUNG - NA CHICH road traffic. The team spent 3 minutes in CHINA! live fox which had been caught in a trap said a druggist who will "process" it to prepare a is not used for vehicular A female trapper with a she was going to sell it to cure for malaria.' 49. 13 Nov. 57: A new steel and concrete bridge is under construction at NAM LOAT. 50. 14 Nov. 57: The CAO BANG - SOC GLANG road is in fair to poor condition. 51. 19 Nov. 57: No vehicular traffic is possible beyond a point 5 km. '•'•est of HA LANG, otherwise road QUANG UYEN - HA LANG is fair. 52. 21 Nov. 57: No vehicular traffic is possible beyond a point just exclusive of CHI CHOI on the PHUC NOA - dHANG UYEN - THUNG KHAN PHU Road. 53. 24 Nov. 57: (a) No vehicular traffic beyond PHO MA on road PHUC HOA - DONG KHE PO MA. (b) Line Communications in the CAO BANG Area. Trung KHAN PHU TRAd'LINH MA PHUC NUOC .HAI y a. T^ANG'tfffiN CAO BANG "'""'HA LANG \ i i i i • PHUC\H0A \ --A.TA LONG DON&dKHE \ THAT KHE �SECRET - 24 SOUTH VIETNAM TOURANE 54. 4 Nov. 57: (a) The Harbour i) Silting up rapidly. French opinion says harbour will be of limited use by 1960. Only shallow draught vessels can go into dock at this time. Do not know tonnage of largest vessel seen -• it was the NGUYEN VAN BAM which works to Siagon. It could navigate the river up to the quay. li) Information on harbour is readily obtainable at Tourane from French and American sources. Vietnamese seem ill-informed on the matter, iii) Outer harbour will be good for 25 years at least. No problem on lightening vessels. (b) The Bridge: Now limited to 12 t-4 vehicles at a time. Bridge has shifted rendering railway which crosses it unserviceable. Americans know nature of technical problem, French improperly anchored floating piers which have shifted and are settling. (c) The Region: Went hunting to BA NA. Guides were of Ter tribe. Admitted communists whom IX) says "are now on our side". I wonder, American movement in the Hue - Tourane district is restricted after dark because of SVN fears of Communist attempts at assasination. MAAG Intelligence services predicted the Saigon bombings and the same source revealed plans for similar incidents in the Hue - Tourane area. These did not come to pass - largely, I think because of counter-measures employed by S W police and Army - and of MAAG precautions. TAN CHAU 55. 15 Nov. 57: The team is virtually confined to barracks for "security" reasons. The team was informed by the SVM LO that if any member wishes to "walk out", he should give 5 minutes notice, in order that the police may be informed. The LO confidentially told our team member that the "unofficial reason for this slight restriction was that the former Chief of the District who had just been replaced was suspected of disloyal tendencies, and that the new Chief had been told to clean things up. To this end there are increased military operations with the resultant possibility of reprisals in the form of assassinations. There appears to be quite a few troops moving about, particularly on the river at night. They come in to refuel and take on stores after midnight. 56. 12 Nov. 57: The senior LO informed the team that about 10 days ago, an ambush patrol from a post across the river (and visible to the team) had itself been wiped out when all its members went to sleep while waiting for the "reactionaries" to come along. The LO emphasized the increased tempo of activity on the part of the "bandits." A fair amount of traffic through the town and on the river of soldiers, Garde Civile and in the last weeks, Garde Rurale - all armed with automatic weapons, in addition to their normal 1870 model French rifles. What might be mortar fire has been heard at night. �- 25 - SECRET PERIODIC MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE PART B - EXTRACTS FROM THE PRESS. (N.B. Some of the extracts are repeated verbatim from literal translations. Such items will be headed "literal"). From NHAN DAN 1. 19 Aug. 57: The CAO LIEN Bridge a t THANG HOA has been opened t o l i n k i n g t h e NTNH BINH - THANH-HOA motor r o a d . 2. traffic 29 Aug. 57: BARGE OF 200 TONS LAUNCHED On l a s t August 25 - 1957, t h e Haiphong s h i p yard has launched an i r o n - b a r g e of 200 t o n s . This i s t h e f i r s t of t h e 2 b a r g e s o f f e r e d us a s a i d by t h e S o v i e t Union t o g e t h e r w i t h a dredge which i s being assembled i n Haiphong, Our workers a r e p r e p a r i n g t o assemble t h e second barge so t h a t i t may be launched t o welcome Vietnam's N a t i o n a l Day on September 2 . 3. 10 S e p t . 57: On 8 S e p t . 57, t h e newly-dredged channel i n t o the p o r t of BEN THUY was i n a u g u r a t e d . BEN THUY i s l o c a t e d about 2 km. from the important c i t y of VINH in c e n t r a l Vietnam. For t h e f i r s t time s i n c e t h e p o r t was c o n s t r u c t e d i n 1926, cargo v e s s e l s up t o 1000 t o n s d r a u g h t can now come a l o n g s i d e t h e BEN THUY j e t t y . During the p e r i o d of French r u l e , v e s s e l s in e x c e s s of 500 t o n s could not reach t h e j e t t y . More than 142,000 cubic m e t e r s of a l l u v i a l d e p o s i t s had t o be dredged t o c r e a t e the c h a n n e l . 4 « 16 S e p t . 57: Literal VIETNAM-CZECHOSLOVAKIA POST AND TELECOMMUNICATION AGREEMENT CONCLUDED A p o st and tele-communication agreement p r o v i d i n g for t h e exchange of v a r i o u s t y p e s of l e t t e r s , p a r c e l p o s t , t e l e g r a m and t e l e p h o n i c c o n v e r s a t i o n s between t h e Republic of Czechoslovakia and t h e Vietnam Democratic Republic was signed a t Prague, c a p i t a l c i t y of Czechoslovakia, by Comrade Nguyen Thanh Ha, VDR's Ambassador E x t r a o r d i n a r y and P l e n i p o t e n t i a r y t o t h i s country and Comrade Neumann, S e c r e t a r y f o r Communications of the Republic of C z e c h o s l o v a k i a . 5. 17 Sept. 57: Literal In the afternoon of September 16 - 1957, the first train made a trial trip in safety across Due Tu bridge (on the Hanoi Laocai railway). The portion Yen Vien - Dong Anh was formerly damaged in several places by flood water. Since August 15 - 1957, cadres and workers of the Railroad Department and labourers coming from several provinces have started the repair of this portion of railway. After one month of tremendous efforts, the repair has been completed, Hanoi-Laocai railroad opened to traffic has made possible the exchange of different types of parcel post and mail between Vinh Phuc, Phu Tho, Yen Bai, Lao Cai, Tuyen Quang, Ha Giang and other provinces. �SECRET - 26 - 6. 11 :Ocdta,; 57: Autumn and winter subsidiary crops for the period 1956-57, were generally weak in different localities and reached 80% of the target set. Under the plan.) only 70% of the "Plan for maize and sweet potatoes were fulfilled. Nhan Dan suggests as the cause the complacency of the peasants following successive good crbps. This situation was aggravated by a poor winter rice crop expected due to the drought in some areas. 7. 25 - 28 Oct. 57: Literal THE SOVIETS ON THE LAOC.&I MOUNT/ INOUS REGIONS Those comrades have lived here nearly 1,000 days far from the glamour of Moscow. From dawn to dusk their shadow mingle in the shadow of Hoang Lien Sen mountains and forests. Through 2 winters and 2 summers they have left in the core of Vietnamese and Cadres' heart a friendly picture which will never fade. Who are they? They are Soviet geologists coming here to help us to uncover our rich resources in this remote part of the frontier. From THE VIETNAMESE NEWS BULLETIN 8 * 5 Aug. 57: Fifteen out of twenty-five Soviet-equipped pumping stations of the major irrigation project in the North Western part of Nghe An province (North Central Vietnam) have, in the main, been completed. 9. 10 Aug. 57: CHINESE-SUPPLIED POWER STATION COMPLETED The power station in Phu Ly, chief town of Ha Nam province, in the Red River right bank area, has in the main been completed after four months construction. This two hundred kilowatt power station is supplied as aid by the Chinese People's Republic. Preparations are being made for a test operation in the near future. 10. 13 Aug. 57: 500 MORE AUTOMATIC LOOMS P r e p a r a t i o n s a r e being made by workers a t t h e Nam Dinh Weaving P l a n t t o assemble 500 more a u t o m a t i c looms and 15 s p i n n i n g machines. P r e v i o u s l y t h e P l a n t had assembled 600 a u t o m a t i c looms and 15 s p i n n i n g machines. These looms and machines were s u p p l i e d by t h e P e o p l e ' s Republic of China t o h e l p t h e V.D.R. develop the weaving i n d u s t r y under t h e 1957 S t a t e P l a n . According t o t h e managing board of t h e P l a n t , when a l l t h e s e 1,100 a u t o m a t i c looms a r e put i n t o o p e r a t i o n , c l o t h o u t p u t of t h e P l a n t w i l l i n c r e a s e more than two fold compared w i t h t h e pre-war l e v e l . The p l a n t w i l l a l s o weave many new k i n d s of c l o t h formerly imported. �SECRET - 27 PART C - ADDITIONAL MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE 1. 21 Sept.- 57: The following was received from a military member of our Delegation in HANOI: On 14 Sept. 57, while proceeding from HANOI to TAN DAO on an organized recreational trip at approx 1345 hours, I observed a number (approx. 6 or 8) of AA guns about 17 kms. NW of HANuI. These guns appeared to be HAA and were fixed in an enclosure a short distance from the road. The guns were manned at time of passing, 2; 21 Sept. 57: The following anecdote was submitted by a member of the Military Component at HANOI: While at a reception last night in the Villa of the Canadian Commissioner, I had occasion to chat with Lt. Col. T: Diatlowicki, Polish member of the Operations Committee. Lti Col. Diatlowicki told me that he was being repatriated in November Ori normal rotation and that he was looking forward to rejoining his family in Warsaw. He has 2 sons, one age 16 and the other age 10. Both are at school, and the older boy has finished "Middle School" (Probably our equivalent of junior matriculation). He thought that the boy was interested in becoming a medical doctor and offered the suggestion that with such a profession, a young man could practice in "any country". This remark reminded me of the migration of 4000 or so Polish veterans who came to Canada from the UK under contract as farm labourers, and were subsequently absorbed into our population as immigrants. I referred to a specific group of 400 such Polish veterans whom I personally conducted as TCO from Halifax to Winnipeg, and in which there was a Polish Naval Officer who in civilian life was an eye surgeon. The conversation switched from speculation on the present lot of this surgeon, to the numbers and position of Polish immigrants generally in Canada, Somehow or other Fred Rose (convicted ex MP) came to my mind and without naming him, I remarked that a Pole had attained parliamentary rank in recent times, but that unfortunately for him he came to a bad end and was deported. Lt. Col. Diatlowicki asked for his name, and when I replied "Fred Rose", he said, "I know him very well. He is a newspaperman in Warsaw and lives there with his wife and daughter. His daughter is an attractive person". He went on to say that he toured Bulgaria with Rose for e month last Autumn and that Rose had told him that he was an MP in Canada and that he had been jailed for 5 years and subsequently deported. He said that Rose talked frequently of Canada and that he wished he were back. He also mentioned that Rose spoke Polish quite well now, explaining that he was brought to Canada as an infant, and apparently had not been fluent in his mother tongue when he was forcibly returned. I gathered from the manner in which the Colonel spoke that Rose was nothing more to him than a well-known acquaintance, so I asked him if he knew why Rose was imprisoned. He replied that Rose told him that he was a Communist MP and that he was convicted and jailed because he dared to stand up and speak against the Government in Parliament. I expnained that the essence of our Parliamentary system lay in the existence of an effective Opposition and that lest he should have gained the wrong impression from Rose, the latter was, in fact, convicted with some other Canadian citizens for espionage. I very briefly outlined our famous Spy Case. He listened with interest, smiled and replied: "Well, anyhow, Rose said he was put in prison because he said bad things against the Government. �- 28 - SECRET 3 6 Nov. 57: AA installations at GIA LAM. The location of AA installations reported on 6 Oct. 57, are confirmed. Calibre of the guns appears to be not larger than 85 ram. A troop of four guns appears to be patterned as follows: intergun spacing is estimated to be 1- yards (a sketch showed four artillery symbols arranged in the shape of a diamond with a predicter or other gun control equipment located in the centre). Recently whet might be a second troop position was seen. This contained the same weapons arranged in the same pattern as described above. The location of both sites is within a 1000-meter perimeter of the airfield. 4Oct. 57: The following was received from a Team officer on being posted from Fixed Team HAIHiONG: (a) North Boundary: It is known that ships lighten in the Baie D'Along preparatory to berthing in Haiphong. It is also known that ships complete loading there, having loaded to approx. 24 feet in Haiphong. Neither lightening nor loading has ever been witnessed by the Team. (b) South Boundary: It is known that comprehensive dredging has been carried out in the inland waterways south of Haiphong. It is reasonable to assume that such dredging has included coastal entries. NuTE There are three alternative entrances to NAM DINH. Candel suspects that this inland city has been developed and includes a Naval Base. The Team has never been close enough to the coast to observe anything. (c) Haiphong Port: The Team is The warehouses and behind them is out walls. Oddly enough, the British may whenever they have goods consigned to only permitted to walk along the jetties. of bounds although inside the port area enter the warehouses and adjacent areas them. The Customs House is outside the Dock Area but is very close. Normally there is no trouble in checking manifests. The small coasting ships MUU NINH and HOA BINH run to VINH,, as a rule, and the Team, at Candel's suggestion - checks for "internal movement" at varying intervals. It appears that the documents for these ships are kept not in the Customs House, but in the Harbour-Master's office, which is inside the dockyard walls. The port is silting up and one good typhoon could possibly plug the canal which leads to Haiphong. A Russian dredger (large, suction, lelf-soading and discharging) has been stationed in Haiphong for over a year. Most of the time it lies alongside, occupying valuable jetty-space, undergoing repairs. If the Vietnamese are paying for the dredger's time, not the amount of work she does, they are throwing money away.' This year (1957) a Polish ship darawing not more than 28 feet was aground for three days in the buoyed channel. She was well to seaward of the canal and discharged approx. 1,000 tons into another Polish ship which then towed her off the mud. The cargo was transferred back in the Baie D'Along. The information concerning the amount of cargo lightened comes from the Master of the "rescuing" ship. There are a couple of small Viet dredgers here but they limit themselves to occasional puttering around the canals in the city. If the local authorities wish to, they could bring practically anything into Haiphong without the Team's knowledge. The only limitations would be weight, i.e. the ship must lift the object herself - if the local floating crane is not available - and it is doubtful if the jetties can support more than 20 tons of concentrated weight. The floating crane can, it is estimated, lift about 10 to 15 tons. Russian ships sighted here almost invariably have a 50 - 75 ton heavy lift. (For non-sailors this means a very heavy derrick can be observed stowed upright against one or more masts. This derrick can be used as a heavy crane). Steel barges have been built in �SECRET - 29 Haiphong. It is believed that Russian, Czech etc., technicians were in charge. These barges (about 6 of them) were built near the old slip area. This slip appears to be in good shape and quite useable. Lack of dredging may be the reason it has never, as far as is know, been occupied for the last 9 months. Local newspapers announced that, in honour of the 40th Anniversary of the October Revolution, the floating dock is to be raised. This dock has been submerged for some 10 to 14 years and is probably in very bad shape. A check on the Haiphong Shipping Reports will indicate the type and amount of traffic through the port. It is very noticeable that machinery, drugs, hospital equipment etc., almost invariably arrives in "satellite" shipping from "satellite" ports. Mother Russia seems to be very slow in putting her hand into her own pocket to help N. Vietnam. The two coasters NUU NINN & HOA. BINH were gifts of the Chinese government and are very smart little craft. (About 600 tons D.'".)« Occasionally, sea-going barges are towed from China. These are controlled. The port is well served by harbour tugs. Up to six have been sighted at one time. There are a few small mobile cranes. Loading and discharging can be carried out at a very fast pace. Material can, and possibly is, moved very quickly indeed, by jetty or barge, out of sight. British junks from Hong Fong have been caught in large-scale smuggling. M594T (Wing Sang) has been held since 26 Aug. 57, to date. Presumably she will remain here till she pays the fine of 84,000,000 dongs for repeated smuggling offences. (d) Cat Bi Airport: Until recently, the Team could wander, at will, anywhere inside the airport perimeter. Progessively, the controllable area has been reduced. The Hanger area and hangars are now enclosed and laballed "Military" area. The Team now requires permission to proceed past the Control Tower, On Oct. 19, 1957, the Team was informed that it could no longer cross the runway to inspect the buildings on the other side. Thus, airport control is. now confined to a very small area adjacent to the Control Tower. Minor repairs have been carried out on the roads immediately adjacent to the runway. The runway white guide-lines and borders have been repainted very recently. The Met station seems to be manned. Electric cables round the perimeter have been dug up for inspection and connection repair. The Airport Staff have informed the Team that no register is maintained but have refused to answer the following: i) Is the Control Tower manned? ii) Should an aircraft make an emergency landing, will the Team be informed? iii) Should the airport be re-opened to air traffic, will the Team be informed? These questions and refusals will be pursued by the Team - at Candel's prodding. Date: December, 1957 Source: Canadian Delegation t o I . C C S . S ECHET ~~~": 000721 �AIVAJLJIA A - 30 TRANSLATION EXTRACT FROM NHAN DAN (PEOPLE) November 15th, 1957 Editorial THE DRAFTED LABOUR TO BUILD UP THE COUNTRY IS THE DUTY OF EVERY CITIZEN In the war time, various sections of people - mostly peasants - have eagerly met the drafted labour, done their best to overcome hardships and record big achievements so as to contribute to the success of the resistancewar. Since peace was restored, our compatriots in countryside as well as in town have many a time took part in the drafted labour to build and repair roads, dikes, irrigation systems, etc... In the work of restoring and developing economy with the aim to gradually improve the people's living standard, the operations of construction and repair become more and more numerous. These occupations have to need a large number of manpowers for which the State, due to its limited financial capacity is impossible to pay. Besides, the popular democratic power belongs to our people, therefore the State always relies upon the latter's contribution to realize every work. However, to be consistent with the peaceful time, to materialize the plan which consists in gradually reducing the people's contribution and at the same time to pay attention to the agricultural development in countryside, the policy of mobilizing and using the drafted labour at present aims to restrict the sphere of drafted labour so that the State plan be successfully fulfilled and simultaneously the production be ensured for the people. The provisionary regulations for the mobilization and disposition of the drafted labour in peaceful time which the VDR Prime Minister has promulgated on July 27 - 1957, define clearly that the labour is only drafted to meet a definite number of works concerning communication, transport, irrigation system supplies to armymen in mountainous regions having no conditions to use means of conveyance and to pay manpowers. Formerly, the drafted labourers were mobilized to go away but from now on, the labour is only drafted to meet the local work or that happened in surrounding provinces. The former regulations do not define the time taken for annually drafted labour of each citizen: from now on, each citizen has to do a drafted labour within 50 days in the construction site. The work regime of drafted labour is the piece-work having the effect to encourage the creation of initiatives, the increase of efficiency, the quick achievement of work planned, and to realize the economizetion of budget. The rights of the drafted labourers are clearly defined as follows: cancellation of the regime where the drafted labourers have to provide themselves during the first 5 or 7 days, and allowance for the case of accident labour ... The provisory regulations for the mobilization and disposition of drafted labour in peaceful time need to be widely popularized among various sections of people. Every administrative organ and mass organization have the duty of mobilizing the people to study the policy in question so as to make every body perceive the purpose, significance and interest of drafted labour in peaceful time. In every mobilization and disposition of drafted labour, the fundamental motto consists in educating and raising the spirit of willingness of people, �APPENDIX B. TRANSLATION Extract from NHAN DAN (PEOPLE) November 15th, 1957. PROVISORY REGULATIONS FOR THE MOBILIZATION AND DISPOSITION OF DRAFTED LABOUR IN PEACEFUL TIME In the war time, our people had endured hardness and eagerly taken part in the drafted labour with a view to contributing to the success of resistance war. Since peace was restored, due to people's contribution, a number of works of communication, transport, irrigation and other operations have been achieved. In the economic rehabilitation and reconstruction, the State must further rely upon the people to bring profit to them. Therefore, each citizen has the duty of favouring the drafted labour, emulating each other for the increase of labour efficiency and securing a rapid and good achievement of state operations. To guarantee the development of production along the diminution of people's contribution in peaceful time, it has been decided as follows: - to mobilize the drafted labour aimed at chiefly carrying out a definite number of works on irrigation, communication and transport: - the time put for the drafted labour is not limitless: - the drafted labourers have to work in their own localities or in the surrounding provinces. - the work-regime of the drafted-labour is principally the pieoe-work. CHAPTER I Persons having the duty to join the drafted labour Article 1 - All Vietnamese citizens frcm 18 to 50 years old for men and from 18 to 45 years old for women have the duty to take part in the drafted labour. Article 2 - To guarantee the State's reconstruction plan so as not to hinder the materialization of production plan of various branches and administrative machinery and at the same time to apply the governmental policy of priority treatment towards a number of persons, the following people enjoy either exemption, provisional exemption or provisional postponement of drafted labour: A - Are exempted from drafted labour: - permanent members of the administrative committees in village or city. - secretary of the administrative committee's office in village or city. - agents of liaison in village or city. - head of the statistic committee in village or city. - medical worker and mid-wife in village or city if these localities have only one medical worker and one mid-wife. �- 32 - disabled armyment - wife or husband of the war invalid if the letter's living depends on the wife or husband; - can bo (cadres), government officials and teachers working in the public and private schools. - workers and labourers who are working in the state-owned factories (colliery, construction site, collective farm, forestry work yard) and in the private factories. - those who practice the religious profession such as: clergyman, priest, monk, bronze, sorcerer (minority people's area), etc... - cripples and those who affected by a chronic disease are unable to do hard labour. B. Are temporarily exempted from drafted labour - teachers in the mass education who are fulfilling their duties. - demobilized armymen living in their villages (if the demobilization time does not yet reach one year). - Southern people going to the North and taking part in the production to provide themselves, if the time of this does not yet reach one year. - pupils in public and private schools, - pregnant women. - women who are giving suck to their babies for a time under one year: in the case where the baby is not yet weaned and the family has no nurse, the mother of this baby may enjoy a provisory exemption of one and a half year. C. Are allowed temporary postponement of drafted labour. - Those who directly practice the handicraft under the contract signed with the State-owned trade organ enjoy a temporary postponement during the time stipulated for the application of the contract. - Fishers and salt makers who are exercising their crafts during the fishing and salt making season. - '"'food-cutters who are carrying out the State Plan. - Those who are recognized by the people as principal labourer to keep their families composed of old folks, children and invalids. CHAPTER II Operations Asking for Drafted Labour Article 5 - The drafted labour is mobilized to do following jobs: 1. T!?ater-works are composed of: dikes (river and sea dikes) major and medium size irrigation works. In the dike and irrigation operations, are considered as joining the drafted labour those who undertake the work of researches and building. Are not considered as taking part in the drafted labour those who assume the following works in their own localities: combat against 000724 �- 33 flooding, drought, typhoon, inundation and operations relative to the permanent protection and repair of portions of dike and channel. In case of needj the local administration and mass organizations will mobilize the population for these works. When repairing the dike surrounding the town, the people living in the town will be mobilized to dd itt If the strength of the people in town is insufficient to meet the Repairj there will be further mobilization of labourers in surrounding villages for the Common operation. 2. Works on transport and supplying to servicemen in the mountainous regions where the means of transport in car, boat, buffalo, horse and the hire of manpowers are impossible. 3. Special works authorized by the Permier's Office to employ drafted labour. Concerning the mountainous region, beside the works stipulated above, the drafted labour is possible to be mobilized to do following jobs: waterwork, construction and repair of communication road, work to study bridge and road, the dredging of river bed to facilitate the water traffic, the construction of school, hospital, market and habitation of public organs from the district level upwards, in the case where there is shortage of manpower. (to be continued) �TRANSLATION - 34 Extract from NHAN DAN (PEOPLE) November 16th, 1957. TEMPORARY REGULATIONS FOR THS MOBILIZATION AND DISPOSITION OF DRAFTED LABOUR IN PEACE TIME (continued) CHAPTER I H Obligations and rights of the people taking part in the drafted labour. Article 4 - Each person has every year to join the drafted labour to work in the construction site during 30 days not including the travelling and leave days. Article 5 - After 9 successive days' work, the draftees have the right to 1 day leave. The draftees should work 9 hours a day. At the mountainous area in winter or in the case where the draftees have to work far from the lodging they are admitted to work 8 hours a day. Article 6 - In the construction site, the draftees must respect the labour discipline and work conscientiously so as to ensure the quantity and quality of the efficiency; the draftees should bow to the orders of the leading organs, respect and safeguard the public properties, not violate the people's properties, not disclose the State's secret and take measures against sabotage. Article 7: The draftees are entitled to contribute their opinions to the organization of work and to the organization of living in construction site. Article 8 -The drafted labourers will work in the sphere of their own localities. Referring to the mountainous regions, the draftees from any district or province, work in the sphere of their respective district and province. In the case where the province or district lacks in manpower utilized for the common profit of the 2 or 3 contiguous provinces or districts, the Zonal Administrative committee will mobilize the manpowers in the surrounding provinces or districts to execute the same operation. Article 9 - When coming to work in the construction site, the draftees must carry on them the working instruments; the organ mobilizing the manpowers should notify the concerned villages so that the draftees can make preparations before arriving in the construction site. The tools belonging to the construction site and remitted to the draftees must be kept in good care, if the draftees lose or gravely damage them, there will be compensation for the losses suffered. Article 10 - The work regime of draftees in the construction site is principally the piece-work; except a few jobs which must be carried out in daylabour. �The piece-work has 2 aspects: - 35 - 1. Piece-work entrusted to village - The construction site entrusts the village with the amount of works, fixes the time of completion and the sum of reward so as to enable the village to make arrangements for the successful execution of the scheduled amount of works. If the operations are terminated before the due time in accordance with the conditions laid down to the draftees, the latter are allowed to go home before the specified time and are considered as having fully fulfilled the total number of labour days and admitted to enjoy the integral sum of reward. 2. Piece-work entrusted to construction site: That means the construction site entrusts each unit of draftees with an amount of works, fixes the time of completion and the sum of reward. If the draftees succeed in finishing the scheduled work before the due time in strict accordance with technical conditions, they are admitted to go home before, are considered as having completely fulfilled the total number of drafted labour days and are allowed to enjoy the integral sum of reward. When receiving the piece-work, the village administrative committee or the organ commanding the units of draftees has to sign a contract with the commandment service of the construction site. When the draftees work in the construction site, the village administrative committee is liable to organize and lead the draftees in emulating one another for the increase of efficiency so as to ensure the materialization of work in the scheduled time. If the concerned village or the draftees do not fulfill the specified work in accordance with the proposed requirements and have to do an overtime work, there will be no more payment of reward by the construction site if the responsibility falls on the concerned village or on the draftees. On the contrary, if the responsibility belongs to the construction site the draftees have the right to enjoy the payment or overtime work. (to be continued) �- 36 - TRANSLATION Extract from NHAN DAN (PEOPLE) November 16th, 1957 TEMPORARY REGULATIONS RJR THE MUBILIZATION AND DISPOSITION OF THE DRAFTED LABOUR IN PEACE T E E (continued) Article 11 - Allowances granted to the draftees who work by the piece are calculated following the amount of their works. The pay by the piece (for instance a cubic meter of earth, a square meter of road macadamized, a kilometer of transport, etc..) will be fixed by the construction site as follows: 1) Average efficiency of drafted labourer for a day in accordance with the conditions laid down by the interested organ. 2) Daily allowances fixed to each kind of drafted labourer: 600 "dong" a day for ordinary draftee, 800 "dong" for transport-draftee and from 800 to 1,000 "dong" for the technical draftee disposed following the degree of one's technical capacity. 3) Various expenditures (such as allowances to be paid to leading cadres, nurses, cooks and so on...) Cadres in charge of the construction site and cadres in charge of the drafted labour should organize and stimulate the draftees to surpass the target set under the Plan in order to secure the scheduled operations and at the same time to make the draftees enjoy more allowances. Only in the case where the amount of work is impossible to be calculated, are the allowances paid following the regime of day-labour. The payment of allowances for the day-labour is fixed as follows: - 600 "dong" a day for ordinary draftee - 800 "dong" a day for transporter and victualler-draftee to armymen in mountainous area - From 800 to 1,000 "dong" a day for technical draftee employed following one's technical capacity. Through executing the day-labour, the draftee is also obliged to ensure the quality as well as quantity of the daily operations fixed by the construction site. For ordinary leave, holiday, sick leave, rain, typhoon, the ordinary and technical draftees are entitled to enjoy an allowance of 600 "dong" a day, and the draftee in charge of supplying to armymen in mountainous region enjoy an allowance of 800 "dong" a day. In the construction site where the draftee comes to work in the morning and returns home in the evening has no right to allowance for the leave. For the travelling taken from the village to construction site and vice versa, the ordinary draftee and technical draftee enjoy an allowance of 600 "dong" a day, the draftee who transports and supplies to armymen in mountainous area is paid 800 "dong" a day. The draftee will not be paid of one's travelling is under 10 kilometers; from 11 to 15 kilometers' travelling, the draftee obtains half of daily allowance; from 16 to 30 kilometers' travelling, full allowance is paid; from 31 to 45 kilometers* travelling, allowance of one and a half day is paid; for the long travelling, every 15 more kilometers will be paid half of allowance. �- 37 Article 12 - In the course of work in the construction site, the drafted labourers will enjoy the following holidays: - International labour day (May 1st), a day leave: - National Day (September 2nd), a day leave: - Solar New Year (January 1st), a day leave: On the occasion of the Vietnamese Lunar New Year, there will be no mobilization of drafted labour. If the drafted labourers who are working in the construction site, the Vietnamese New Year celebrations will be held there. The Catholic draftees are entitled to enjoy Christmas holiday (December 25th). The Buddhist draftees are entitled to enjoy the Buddha birthday (the 8th of the 4th Lunar month). Article 15 - Health service to the drafted labourers in the construction site is mainly the preventive work against diseases. In the regions where the climate is not so well, preventive medicines against malaria will be distributed to draftees. The sick draftees will be treated at their units or at the informary of the construction site. If the construction site is unable to cure them, they will be medically treated in the hospital of province. Expenditures for these treatments will be in charge of the construction site. The sick draftees may ask the permission to return home for treatment at their families. In this case, with the proposal of the nurse or of the commandment service of the construction site, a few medicines are granted to these people. The sick draftees medically treated at the construction site are entitled to, by the proposal of the nurse or of the leading organ, obtain beside the allowance, an indemnity of 150 or 300 "dong" a day following the state of their maladies. If the draftee dies, the burial expenses will be in the charges of the construction site. Article 14 - The women draftees, during the time of their menses, are entitled to do light work and if they live near their houses, they are admitted to return home for rest. After their menses, they should work in compensation. Article 15 - The drafted labourers who are victim of accident labour will be medically treated at the informary of the construction site. If the construction site has no informary or if it is unable to treat these victims, the latter are submitted to the hospital treatment in the province. During the time of medical treatment in infirmary or in hospital, the draftee victim of labour accident will be the object of the Government's care. Treatment expenses will be undergone by the construction site. After one's recovery, if the draftee suffers from an infirmity which exerts great influence upon one's labour capacity, this victim will be entitled to enjoy a sum, as an indemnity. If the victim dies of labour accident, the victim's family will enjoy an indemnity. (to be continued) �.- 38 - TRANSLATION Extract from NHAN DAN (PEOPLE) November 16th, 1957 TEMPORARY REGULATIONS FOR THE MOBILIZATION AND DISPOSITION OF DRAFTED LABOUR IN PEACE TIME Article 16 - Following the condition and situation of work, the construction site may organize collective living for the draftee. The latter may also return home in the evening if one's house is located near the construction site. Article 17 - If the draftee lives a collective living in the construction site, the collective expenditures such as: oil-light, newspapers, and other materials necessary to the leading cadres' activities are covered by the construction site. The kitchen utensils are provided by the draftees themselves, in case of need, the construction site may lend some, but the draftees are requested to carefully conserve them. All losses or damages suffered should be repaired. Article 18 - All units of draftees recording brilliant achievements in the work will be congratulated. CHAPTER IV Obligations of Concerned Organs Article 19 - Following are the duties of various organs having the responsibility on the distribution, mobilization and disposition of drafted labour. - The State planning board sets the drafted labour plan to meet the requirements of various branches. - Basing itself upon the requirements of the State plan, the Labour Ministry has the obligation to distribute the number of drafted labourers to different localities and at the same time to control the application of drafted labour system by the concerned localities. The zonal and provincial administrative committes have the obligation to order the mobilization of manpowers and ratify the needs on the drafted manpowers of various localities. Article 20 -The Administrative Committee is liable for the drafted labour done in the sphere of its locality, such as: - Managing the drafted labour done in the sphere of its locality, providing a sufficient number of manpowers so as to meet the realization of the plan of the construction site. - Popularizing the policy relative to the drafted labour and supervising the application of the policy in question. - Organizing the mobilizing the drafted labourers to work eagerly. - Supplying documents and reporting on the situation of drafted labour to higher authorities. The Administrative Committee at all levels must send in the construction site, a cadre in charge of following-up the mobilization and disposition of drafted labour. �u 39 Air$i0.ieit 21 - The Command Service of the construction site has the obligation oft - Ensuring the fulfillment of various clauses concerning the drafted labour system. - Organizing, leading and mobilizing the draftees to compete with one another for the increase of efficiency and for the rapid achievement of operations and at the same time taking care of the draftee's living. - Applying necessary measures against accident labour. - Timely congratulating or proposing to congratulate every unit or individual draftee having recorded metitorious achievements in the work. Article 22 - If the construction site dissolves before settling the draftees' interests, the responsible organ should liquidate them instead. Article 25 - The mobilization of drafted labourers must aim at ensuring the needs of work and at the same time the production of the locality. The village administrative committee should study the situation of manpower in its locality so as to mobilize only the strong people. The village administrative committee has the obligation of securing the number of manpowers and leading the draftees for the successful fulfillment of the target laid down by the construction site. When mobilizing manpowers, the concerned organ must make explanations on the duty of people toward the drafted labour and base itself upon the situation of each person so as to apply mobilization in accordance with the present regulations. Article 24 - To avoid waste of time, the draftees have to concentrate at the district and province before coming to the construction site. CHAPTER V General Provisions Article 25 - The Administrative Committee in autonomous area base itself on the present clauses and on the concrete situation of each area to fix particular regulations after having discussed with the labour Ministry. Article 26 - The Labour Ministry is liable to explain and lead the application of the present regulations. July 27th, 1957. The V.D. R. Prime Minister Signed: Priam Van Dong. 000731 �APPENDIX C - 40 - TRANSLATION E x t r a c t from NHAN DAN (PEOPLE) November 1 8 t h , 1957 FURTHER EXPLANATIONS ON MOBILIZATION OF MAN-POWER To f i t with the time of peaceful construction in accordance with the people's d e s i r e , the Prime Minister of the Government has issued a new regulation on man-power aimed a t lessening the people's contributions and concurrently a t ensuring the fulfillment of S t a t e ' s important plana Trie regulation is being introduced to the population. JUrttier explanations are given below to trirow a l i g h t on a few points in the regulation: 1» Under the terms of trie new regulation, age, condition i s reduced, time-limit of hard labour lessened to 50 days a year and draftees only have to work in t h e i r own provinces or in neighbouring areas; in t h i s case, how can State Plans be f u l f i l l e d ? That clearly proves the S t a t e ' s good cares for the population and i t s good will in granting, the l a t t e r ' s legitimate desire by determining the duration of t h e i r work. That i s made possible to the fact that the Government, in peace-time, only allows certain branches to draft man-power in accordance with the prescriptions in the State plans. The services that used to draft man-power ih vter time and that now are no longer allowed by the new regulation, are not e n t i t l e d to r e c r u i t laborers except p a r t i c u l a r cases authorized by the Prime Minister of the Government. Thus, people's necessary contributions to the fulfillment of State Plans have been carefully calculated. A good drafting - not r e c r u i t i n g old people and children over or under the age conditions stipulated in the regulation, granting exemptions and postponements in s t r i c t accordance with the policy, organizing cleverly, guiding wisely - would ensure success to the work. The decision that draftees work in t h e i r own provinces or neighbouring area i s aimed a t sparing people from unnecessary t r a v e l l i n g s , reducing expenditures of work-yards and combining S t a t e ' s i n t e r e s t with the p e o p l e ' s . If the work requires long t r a v e l l i n g s , adequate allowances and cares w i ll be granted. In t h i s case healthy persons should be moved the f i r s t and assistance be granted to t h e i r families. 2. Why cases of exemption and .postponement are reduced. In war time, there were considerable works to do in the rear front. Exemption was therefore granted to those entrusted with resistance work in the rear front. At present, drafted labourers serve the constructions d i r e c t l y advantageous to t h e i r l o c a l i t i e s a t the same time they are not busy with production work and have not to go far and long. Cadres w i l l stay and work together with drafted labourers and t h a t wil l encourage the l a t t e r in f u l filling their tasks. 3. Draftees have to work 9 hours daily and only get a day leave every 9 working days; i s t h a t contradictory to the labour law? According to the regulations, the working regime of drafted labourers i s mainly task-work. Here, the policy als o aims a t combining the i n t e r e s t of draftees with t h a t of public work. Drafted labourers are meant to f u l f i l l t h e i r duties for a c e r t a i n time and doing a c e r t a i n amount of work. Every draftee wants to achieve t h e i r task the sooner the b e t t e r so that they might go home to mind t h e i r own business. Whoever properly f u l f i l l s h i s task ahead of schedule i s considered as having served h i s time and i s e n t i t l e d to the salary set for the whole work. 000732 �- 41 Jbrmerly, draftees had to serve a l l the time scheduled. Certains worked nonchalantly and i n e f f e c t i v e l y . That was a mere waste of time for draftees and caused losses to national budget and State Plans. For t h i s reason; the regime of working 9 hours d a i l y and leaving one on every nine days i s p r a c t i c a l and appropriate to both the i n t e r e s t s of draftees arid public work, Holidays for draftees are a l s o determined in such a way that the l a t t e r might shorten t h e i r service time and yet> s t i l l ensure the fulfillment of State Plans. Thus, the working regime applied for draftees are defined by the regulation of July 27-1957 and the decree number 358/TTg of the Prime Minister of the Government; I t has no r e l a t i o n with the labour law applied for other factories arid work-yards. Draftees' i n t e r e s t s are guaranteed by the provisions of the regulation such as working time, paid leaves, allowances, wages and so o n . . . 4, The carrying out of trie regulation on the drafting of man-power consists not only in mobilizing labourers in accordance with the policy but s t i l l ensuring a good achievement of the State work. As mentioned above, the new regulation i s aimed a t lessening people's contributions and ensuring appropriate i n t e r e s t for draftees so as to f i t the need of construction and peaceful circumstances. Village administrators have to draw a l i s t of inhabitants to be drafted and to ensure the supply of man-power necessary to each type of work, In case of task-work, contracts should be made and the 2 p a r t i e s have to f u l f i l l the terms agreed upon. Village administrators not only have to draft the number of labourers as required but s t i l l ensure the fulfillment of the work specified in the contract, Therefore, encouragements, emulation drives , sanitary cares are necessary to make draftees e n t h u s i a s t i c and confident in t h e i r work. For the past few years, people's contributions were considerable but part of these was wasted due to careless arrangements (for instance lack of organization and t o o l s ) . I t i s therefore trie duty of the concerned branches to calculate carefully and of regional administrations to heighten t h e i r s p i r i t of r e s p o n s i b i l i t y so that the planned work be achieved properly. ' For t h i s reason, task-work needs to be explained c l e a r l y . A proper carrying out of t h i s working regime would spare the State from unnecessary expenditures, the population from waste of time and encourage drafted labourers to promote t h e i r creativeness, to properly and rapidly f u l f i l l t h e i r task and heighten the people's s p i r i t of r e s p o n s i b i l i t y with regard to t h e i r dutie s i n r a t i o n a l construction. �S E C R E T APPENDIX D HANOI, 7 O c t . REPORT SUBMITTED ON RE-ASSIGNMENT FIXED TEAM DONG DANG General 1. O f f i c e r s a s s i g n e d to Fixed Team DoNG DANG have a c c e s s t o t h a t a r e a w i t h i n 10 km. of the CHINESE Border from i n c l u s i v e SOC GIANG and CHI MA, and t o t h e t e r r i t o r y immediately a d j a c e n t t o Route C o l o n i a l 4 between SOC GIANG and DINH LAP. 2. Importan t towns v i s i t e d d u r i n g mobile c o n t r o l s i n c l u d e CAO BANG, DONG KHE, THAT KHE, DONG DANG, LANGSON, LOC BINH and DINH LAP. A l l of t h e s e a r e s i t u a t e d on Route C o l o n i a l 4 . PHUC HOA l i e s n o r t h of Route C o l o n i a l 4 and i s w i t h i n t h e Team's Zone of A c t i o n . Route i n T r a n s i t 3. O f f i c e r s p r o c e e d i ng t o Fixed Team DoNG DANG a r e routed from HANOI t o DONG DANG v i a r a i l , on trie I n t e r n a t i o n a l T r a i n which l e a v e s HANOI on Mondays, Wednesdays and F r i d a y s . The r e t u r n journey i s made via trie same r o u t e l e a v i n g DONG DANG on t h e I n t e r n a t i o n a l T r a i n s scheduled for Tuesdays, Thursdays and S a t u r d a y s . The journey time i s 6 h r s . 45 rains. 4. CANDEL members a r e given a "compartment" in 1 s t c l a s s coach No. 52. U s u a l l y t h i s i s shared with t h e INDEL c o u r i e r i f t h e CANDEL member i s t r a v e l l i n g a l o n e . Baggage may accompany t h e member i n h i s compartment or i t may be placed in t h e open baggage c a r a t t h e end of t h e t r a i n . This car i s c o n t i n u o u s l y guarded by a policeman i n uniform. R a i l r o a d HANOI-DONG DANG 5. The r a i l r o a d i s e f f i c i e n t l y operate d and accommodates upward of 20 t r a i n s a day. The number of t r i p s per day seems t o vary a s d i c t a t e d by i n t e r n a l domestic n e e d s . An i n t e r n a t i o n a l schedule shows nine t r a i n s per day North bound f o r CHINA and nine t r a i n s p e r day South bound from CHINA. Only one of t h e s e d a i l y . North bound and one South bound, a r e passenge r t r a i n s . The schedule i s a v a i l a b l e a t trie Team s i t e . 6. T r a i n s run f a i r l y c l o s e to schedule - d e l a y s of 10 minutes being f r e q u e n t and a p p a r e n t l y t o l e r a b l e . DONG DANG i s a major s t o p p i n g p o i n t (Customs P o s t ) and t r a i n s t o p - o v e r times of 30 t o 45 m i n u t e s seem customary. The s t a t i o n a t DONG DANG i s a major l o a d i n g p o i n t f o r t r a n s - s h i p m e n t of road-borne l o a d s . The s t a t i o n has a t u r n around c i r c u i t and t h r e e s i d i n g s . H a l t s a r e made a t LANG SON ( f l a g s t o p ) BAC LE, CHAHN MOI, PHU L'NG THUONG, BAC NINH. The l e n g t h of s t o p i s v a r i a b l e and seems dependent on running time between s t o p s . 7. Major r a i l r o a d b r i d g e s a r e l o c a t e d a t LANG SON, PHU LANG THUONG, DAP CAU (BAC NINH) and YEN VIEN. A major b r i d g e (perhaps road and r a i l ) i s b e i n g b u i l t a t e i t h e r HIU LANG THUONG o r DAP CAU, ( I t h i n k the f o r m e r ) . The road bed between BAC NINH and HANOI has been weakened by floods in s e v e r a l p l a c e s and has been "patched " but n o t substantially repaired. �SECRET - 43 - 8. Internationa l passenger t r a i n engines appear to be French. The engines on commerce t r a i n s may be Chinese or Russian. They are new and in good condition and they a r e large r than the passenger t r a i n engines. Points to Observe En Route: 9. Military Insta; ations: LANG SON (PAW HQ and Training Garrison) (Airfields), BAC LE (PAW Garrison?) PHU LANG HUONG (PAW Garrison) DAPJCAU (Bridge Garrison^ BAC NINH (PAVN HQ and very large concentration of a semipermanent nature. Estimate difficult but larger than a Brigade group). PHU TU SON GIA LAM NOTE: (PAW Garrison?) (AA emplacement of 4 guns and what may be radar or gun control equipment 5 minutes train time NORTH of GIA LAM (approx. l| km.)! (Airfield 85 mm.) Bridge garrisons of varying size are located at every bridge, 10. Factories - Only factories to be seen are located at PHU LANG THUONG, BAC NINH, and on the Northern outskirts of HANOI. The one at PHU LANG THUONG could be a textile factory. The one at BAC NINH has considerable quantities of construction steel (for reinforcing concrete), pipes of from approx. 2 inch diameter to 30 inch diameter and some sheet steel in its associated compound. The buildings are large and modern and may cover an acre in extent. The mainhuildihg has a large geared wrieel insignia on trie front of it - rather like a rotary club symbol. 11. Crops - Almost exclusively rice which varies from excellent to poor. In general very good. Description of Team Area by Sectors 12. SOC GIANG - CAO BANG a) Not always accessible. Visited for first time in approx. 6 months, on 27 Sept. 57. lerry at CAO BANG is the regulating feature. b) The road is passable by jeep in good weather. Military pattern vehicles up to •§ ton could use the road in its present condition. Load capacity of bridges and culverts would be the limiting factor. Trie river at CAO BANG is crossed by a suspension foot bridge on the original bridge site but vehicles wishing to cross at CAO BANG must use the ford SOUTH of the foot �- 44 - SECRET bridge approx. 1000 yds. This ford is passable by jeeps during the dry season only. The river must again be crossed approx. 6 km. NORTH of CAO BANG. This crossing is accomplished by a state operated ferry having an estimated 5 ton capacity (one 3 ton vehicle, loaded, per trip - two empty 3 ton vehicles or 4 jeeps.) Time of crossing approx. 10 minutes one way (varies with condition of current). Ferry is poled across by two attendants and is secured by an anchored cable. In addition, two small streams within 5 km. of the ferry are fordable without difficulty. Existing bridges were destroyed and have not been replaced. c) Very little vehicular activity NORTH Of CAO BANG. Souie state transportation trucks (3 ton) employed on crop gathering. Perhaps six vehicles in all. d) The valleys of CAO BANG province are under maximum cultivation and are now burdened by rice crops of excellent yield. The better crops are now being harvested and the paddies drained preparatory to harvest. The crop of two plantings ago in the higher paddies is likely to be a fa ilure. e) No bridging. Rudimentary road improvement, i.e. scratch and patch, between NUOC HAI and CAO BANG. The LO once informed me that the frontier provinces of CAO BANG and LANG SON had a "one-year" plan for road improvement whicri expires witri 1957. The amount of labour involved is difficult to assess but is based on the system of having each family living in the vicinity, provide the labour of one person for 30 days. f) No industry of consequence. Some cabinetmaking and pottery production at NUOC HAI. Good hydro potential. g) No P A W garrisons seen, but two "camps" whicri could accommodate a platoon sized garrison each are in the vicinity of NUOC HAI. CAO BANG - DONG KHE a) CAO BANG is an important administrative centre. Trie town contains a fair sized hospital and a P A W garrison of unknown size but thought to be not less than a battalion. The town is connected to LANG SON by a single, steel telephone line. b) A great deal of activity is apparent especially in crop gathering and shipment. The shipping is accomplished by state transport of the familiar 2 x 4, 3 ton, dual rear wheel type produced at the MOLOTOV Automotive Factory. For the most part, the vehncles are old and tired. (A bad pun since in fact the shoddiest part of the vehicles are the tires which are worn and cut through to the cords. One tire seen had actually been sewn closed where it had ruptured on the side. What new tires there are, are from China and are marked "Export" in Chinese characters, ) �SECRET - 45 - c) A great deal of activity observed in road improvement. All manual labour. No heavy equipment - in fact no equipment other than locally produced hand tools, used. One small bridge being rebuilt 7 km. South of CAO BANG on Route Colonial No. 4. For the most part other improvements consist of clearing the verges of encroaching vegetation, digging drainage ditches along cuttings (6 inches deep), tamping crushed rock into pot holes, reinforcing embankments with stone ballast. The road could be negotiated one way only by 5 ton traffic. d) The populace seem contented but subdued. They listen avidly to the "Peoples Broadcasts" from 0550-0630 hours, and 1800 - 2300 hours daily. e). CAO BANG has its own electric power which operates from about 0600 to 0630 and 1800 to 2300 hours. The quality is poor and fluctuates from below 90 volts to approximately 110 volts. Breakdowns are commonplace, f) All French fortifications have been destroyed by demolition and no attempt seems to have been made to rehabilitate them. One cavernous magazine (suspected) remains intact on the LEFT side of the road to SOC GHANG on the outskirts of CAO BANG. g) What appears to be a radio transmitting or relay station is located on the highest point NORTH of the river on the towns outskirts. A good view could be gotten from the Catholic Church. The LO said it was not a radio station but the evasive manner of his reply indicates that it might be. DONG KHE - PHUC HOA a) The road is in good repair not having been extensively demolished as was Route Colonial No, 4. It climbs and traverses a mountain range and a stretch of jungle-like forest. b) Two streams within 5 km. of DONG KHE must be forded. No difficulty in dry weather but could stop a jeep in the rainy season. Three tonners 4 x 4 might make it. The river at PHUC HOA is deep and swift (10 feet from the LEFT bank it drops to 15 feet. This is the shallowest part of the river bed). The river is crossed by a ferry of approximately 10 ton capacity (2 loaded 3 tonners or 4 jeeps). Motive power is human hand on liana vine. The ferry is anchored by cable. c) Crops vary from very good to fair. Because of the nature of the land, little of it is under cultivation. d) Beyond PHUC HOA at TA LUNG is a Border Customs Post connected to its counterpart in CHINA by a good all weather road. The road appears to be much used. e) No P A W installations seen. �SECRET - 46 - 15. DONG KEE - THAT-KHE a) A wild b i t of c o u n t r y with some f e r t i l e but narrow v a l l e y s . Crops a r e e x c e l l e n t t o poor depending on trie time a t which t h e r i c e was p l a n t e d . P r e s e n t h a r v e s t i s very good. . b) THAT-KHE i s a major g r a i n t r a n s - s h i p m e n t p o i n t . I t i s n e c e s s a r y t o t r a n s - s h i p because t h e bridg e a t THAT-KHE has never been r e b u i l t . At p r e s e n t a suspension f o o t - b r i d g e i s i n place on t h e o r i g i n a l b r i d g e - s i t e , connectin g the two bank p o r t i o n s of t h e o r i g i n a l beavy b r i d g e . Grain from t h e LEFT bank, down bound from CAO BANG, i s manhandled over t h e f o o t b r i d g e t o w a i t i n g t r u c k s on t h e RIGHT bank. I have seen a s many a s 30 s t a t e 3 t o n n e r s in THAT-KHE a t the c r o s s - r o a d s a t one t i m e . c) Road b u i l d i n g i s n o n - e x i s t e n t , but road r e p a i r i s proceeding a s p r e v i o u s l y d e s c r i b e d . Bridges a r e being b u i l t of l o c a l m a t e r i a l s and old r a i l w a y t r a c k s a t p o i n t s 4, 7 and 11 km. NORTH of THAT-KHE on Route C o l o n i a l No. 4 . No road b u i l d i n g o r b r i d g e b u i l d i n g equipment s e e n . d) A PAVN G a r r i s o n of small s i z e i s s t a t i o n e d in THAT-KHE. might be a b r i d g e g a r r i s o n , though I doubt t h i s . It e) A bamboo v e h i c l e f e r r y about 1 km. up stream from t h e f o o t b r i d g e accommodates one j e e p a t a t i m e . Time of round t r i p f o r 4 j e e p s v a r i e s between 1 and 2 h o u r s . The s t a t e t r a n s p o r t a t i o n w i l l e s t a b l i s h a f e r r y a t t h i s p o i n t sometime w i t h i n a f o r t n i g h t . The LO s t a t e s t h a t i t may be in p l a c e a s e a r l y a s one week from now. At t h e p r e s e n t time no v e h i c l e h e a v i e r than a j e e p can c r o s s t h e r i v e r u s i n g e x i s t i n g f a c i l i t i e s . f) Metal s c r a p i s being scavenged from t h e v a r i o u s ambush s i t e s and c o l l e c t e d a t THAT-KHE. Armoured c a r s a r e being l e f t i n s i t u because t h e l o c a l s c r a p - g a t h e r e r s have n o t h i n g with which t o move them. Two p i e c e s of road b u i l d i n g equipment, a s h e e p - f e e t r o l l e r , and a d r u m - r o l l e r , l i e abandoned but useable a t THAT-KHE. g) Both DONG KHE and THAT-KHE were l a r g e l y d e s t r o y e d by f i g h t i n g and few good b u i l d i n g s remain u s e a b l e . 16. THAT-KHE NA CHAM a ) Largely mountainous but with o c c a s i o n a l f e r t i l e v a l l e y . Rice crops a r e e x c e l l e n t t o good depending on t h e time of p l a n t i n g . H a r v e s t i s under way and the crop being h a r v e s t e d i s v e r y good. b) Road improvement i s g e n e r a l a s i n t h e s e c t o r s f u r t h e r n o r t h . Bridge c o n s t r u c t i o n of l o c a l m a t e r i a l s a t p o i n t s 18.7 and 26.5 km. North of NA CHAM. I n g e n e r a l road i s rough but good. I t i s used c o n s t a n t l y by t r u c k s of t h e s t a t e t r a n s p o r t a t i o n s e r v i c e b r i n g i n g r i c e and maize down from THAT-KHE, c) R a i l r o a d bed ends a t NA CHAM. Much d e s t r o y e d running stock s t i l l l y i n g a b o u t . d) No PAW camps s e e n . No m i l i t a r y installations. 000738 �- 47 - SECRET, e) River flowing from NA CHAM to THAT-KHE is swift and contains rapids at several points. Some fair hydro electric possibilities since configuration of the ground would permit backing the river up into a fair reservoir without innundating much arable land. NA CHAM - DONG DANG a) Rolling hills of sedimentary origins, laced with rugged limestone outcrops and narrow fertile valleys. Rice crop very good to good. Harvest in progress. b) Road improvement general as in other sectors. One bridge under construction using local materials, approx. 5 km. from DONG DANG and another approx. 6 km. past. Road is rough but all weather and easily negotiable by 5 ton vehicles. c) Railway road bed to NA CHAM has been stripped of all rails and in the odd place of ballast (for use on the roads). d) No evidence of P A W except at DONG DANG where approx. 20 soldiers man the ISC detachment. These are armed witri small armp only. e) All road traffic to NA CHAM and points north west must pass directly in front of the Fixed Team accommodation. DONG DANG - LANG SON a) Fertile and under good rice crops. Harvest in progress. b) Road is all weather and though narrow could accommodate up to 10 ton loads without difficulty. Bridge width would be the limiting factor. The road parallels and trien crosses the railroad which enters D R W at NAM QUAN, c) LANG SON is the provincial capital and a centre of much administrative activity. The town has a good solid looking power station situated immediately SE of the railway bridge. No industry is apparent though much activity is directed to collection of grain and other produce. d) The bridge at LANG SON was built recently and is well constructed. It bears the rail traffic which crosses it, with little difficulty and in spite of this the bridge attendant is averse to permitting more than one wheeled vehicle across it at any one time. Traffic over the bridge is controlled by flagmen, one at each end. The flagman at the NORTH end has a telephone in his sentry box. e) A substantial P A W Garrison mans the town. P A W use the surrounding area for training. The P A W HQ is in the town proper, situated in the SW corner. Adjacent to the HQ is a fairly large Garrison. Close by is a hospital not exclusively military though used by the P A W . Very little transport belonging to the P A W . Mostly jeeps of Russian make and the occasional 3 tonner of Russianfliake.TheGarrison is now engaged in annual weapon training. Silhouette targets of tanks, side view, £- view and head-on view as well as figure targets, side as well as head and shoulder views, dot the landscape. One mortar was seen by my predecessor,iwhile on one occasion I saw an anti-tank �SECRET - 48 weapon whicri I thought mught be a 75 mm. RCL. Apart from these two sightings only small arms have been seen* The SMCs are mostly pre-Korean of Russian and Chinese v i n t a g e . Latest manufacture date was on a 1952 Chinese machine carbine. Some carbines, A l l r i f l e s seen were bold-action Russian weapons of world war 2 age. Areas in which PAW are b i l l e t t e d a r e shown in the sketch below: Approx. 1 Coy KY LUA River^=::::yA^y \ <_—. May only be occupied for training purposes. Scene " T ^ N X of air training. LANG SON AT LEAST ONE BN The P A W are very proud of the caves at LANG SON, in which they made ammunition during the war.. The French dropped by air in 1953 and put an end to trie production of ammunition. However, the caves still represent excellent natural magazines. In particular trie ones to the SW Have large excavated chambers which were previously used by hoth the Japanese and Viet Minh. The local Commandant was and may still be a Colonel Kim who is alleged to command subordinate formations at least one of which might be 5 - 6,000 men. f) The airfield at LANG SON is probably not used for landings but the buildings are occupied by P A W or police. The wireless masts are still operable and trie weather station has two anemometers and three other pieces of equipment not identified, g) French fortifications destroyed by demolition have not been rehabilitated. LANG SON - LOC BINH - DINH LAP a) Rice crops Very Good to lair. b) Road rough and unattended. Good for vehicles up to 5 ton. c) Substantial P A W garrison in LOC BINH extending from the town proper to the village 9 km. EAST. There are approximately 6 small villages between these limits, each with its quota of billetted soldiers. Estimate NOT less than one battalion, perhaps two. Some P A W transport seen -2 jeeps (Russian) and 2 3 ton 4 x 4 Molotov Trucks. This formation may be an engineer or pioneer battalion since immediately adjacent to billets in all villages and also in LOC BINH are large caches of peeled logs. There are all placed under thatched cover. IN LOC BINH the timbers cached there have been roughly finished square. . Looking at them end on they might be railway ties but are probably longer. 000740 �SECRET - 49 d) The bridge at LOC BINH is out and a manually operated ferry (bamboo poles for power) which can take 12 tons approx. (2 loaded trucks or 6 jeeps) is in operation. e) The crossing place is "overlooked" by P A W bridge garrisons in eitrier bank. f) Road work between LOC. BINH and DINH LAP rather more active then between LANG SON and LOC BINH. Work consists of patching and ballasting. No bridge work. TIP BITS a) Multi engined aircraft flew SOUTH from CHINA crossing at approximately 1520 hours 1st October, 1957. Sounded to be under 5000 feet. Visibility obscured by cloud. b) P A W allegedly will reorganize into a rank structure, comparable with other armies, after the New Year. LO who volunteered this information was not certain whether or not badges for different corps would also be adopted. He also stated technically trained P A W officers were returned to civil status in order to contribute more to trie technical development of the country. c) I saw no armoured vehicles, aircraft or artillery. d) I did not see or hear a round fired. e) P A W utilized wireless, telegraph and runner as signal media during their "war of liberation", expect to do the same if fighting under similar conditions in the future. f) Church in BAC NINH (double spire) has a wireless, rod, aerial 16 ft. (approx.) on spire. �- 50 - SECRET SUMMARY AND QUICK ASSESSMENT OF BORDER ENTRY POINTS PLACE FACILITIES 1. DONG DANG (Customs Post) Railroad ASSESSMENT First class condition. Traffic: Inbound from CHINA: -9 trains per day (8 good trains) Road a Outbound for CHINA: 9 trains per day (8 good trains) All weather. Little used but capable of sustaining continuous military traffic. Maximum classification in LANG SoN province approx. 5 2. PHUC HOA (Customs Post) Road All weather. Frequently used and capable of sustaining continuous military traffic. Maximum classification 12? 3. SOC GIANG Road Poor conditiin. Not used. Not passable to the border. 4, Road Secondary road. Condition not known but thought to be disused, All traffic from TRA LINH is routed via CAO BANG. 5. PAC MUONG (TRUNG KHANH PHU) Road Secondary road. Condition not known but thought to be poor. All inbound traffic is routed via COA BANG or PHUC HOA. 6. HA LANG Roads (2) Two poor secondary roads converge at HA LANG. Nothing known of traffic pattern. PO MA (THAT KHE) Road Secondary r o a d, but d i s u s e d . , Bl NHI ((LUNG VAI) Road Secondary r o a d . Notriing known of c o n d i t i o n or traffic. NA LANG Road Secondary road. Impassable to wheeled vehicles. TR? LINH passable 1 i 9. 000742 �SECRET - 51 - ASSESSMENT PLACE FACILITIES 10. BAN RAHN Road Secondary road. Nothing known of condition or traffic. Suspected disused. Will investigate 2 Oct. 57, Disused. Not passable, by jeep past km. 12. 1 1 . CHI MA Road Secondary r o a d. Impassable due t o washed out c u l v e r t . PAW s t a t e t h i s road w i l l be abandoned. �SEC RET PART I I JIB(CAN) 1/58 Page No. U.S.S.R. Merchant Vessels (S) - 1. 2, 3; 4* 5. 6. 7* Bi 9; 10. Alexander Nevsky Baku Dekabrist ..,. Djurma Erivan ,.....* General Panf ilov Mikhail Kutuzov i,..t Novossisk .,,.,,...... * Odessa .....iii.:*.. J1 s. Pskov ...ALi..*....* 52 55 61 67 73 80 85 91 94 98 lli Stalingrad i 105 1$. Zarja 12. Suchan 13. Valery Chkatov 14. Vladimir Ill 120 125 133 Northern Sea Route - Shipping Activity (C) 137 Ports - (a) KOVDA (S) 138 (b) KYEM (S) 139 JT ** 000744 �SECRET - 52 U.S f .S.R^ .< 4. MERCHANT. VESSELS > ALEXANDER NEVSKY The ALEXANDER NEVSKY a r r i v e d i h Vancouver on 17 November 1957 from V l a d i v o s t o k c a r r y i n g 900 t o n s of b u n k e r s . , She l e f t on 2 December 1957 f o r t h e Vladivostok/Nakhodka a r e a witri 9,000 long t o n s of w h e a t . C h a r a c t e r i s t i c s of the v a s s a l a r e a s f o l l o w s t - G e n e r a l Remarks g Alexander. .Nevsky DECK SPACES 1, The vessel Carried thnks in holds #lj 2 & 3 similar to those carried ih PSKOVi •• iri addition,,.-a steel tank was loCatied on deck between #2 & #3 holds of a size approximately 6f x 5' x 3' and bolted to the deck,. 2, The degaussing in this vessel was seen to be in reasonable conditio ion and still attached to the generators... 3.'" A jury rig was attached to the rudder arm and appeared to be used as an aid to steering,• All other deck accommodation and bridge space remained as previously reported. However, two ship to shore telephones were observed in trie radio room, Aa Trie main chart room in this vessel contained an electric speed and distance log indicator which was observed clearly (see sketch).. Electric log indicator V LiJTjj W .Mileage (?) Total Knots 5» The small room previously reported forward of the boiler space now appears to house a PJtometer type log, BRIDGE 6t room* Two spherical centigrade thermometers were observed in the chart �S E C-R E T - 53 ALEXANDER NEVSKY (Con't) 7. Trie engine and boiler rooms were as previously reported. Trie only change noted was the inclusion of several lengths of flexible'metallic hose of between 2-4 inches in diameter amongst the engine room stores. This hose had interlocking flange connections. 8. The motor generator room had 5 generators in use plus one spare. CAMERAS 9. as follows: Five cameras were registered with trie Customs & Excise office Name of Owner Stepan BURIAKOV Filipp POEUNIN Pavel KOL0K0LTSEV Nicolay CHEH Dmitry KATASONOV Make of camera and Serial No* ZORKI ZORKI ZORKI ZORKI ZORKE 56005045 127913 159893 5701232 56060915 Value $100 100 100 150 100 CREW'S ACCOMMODATION AND STORES 10, The crew's quarters contained the usual personal effects together with a rather large amount of photograpriic equipment of an amateur nature, 11, Aniong trie personal effects of unidentified seamen was a petty officer's naval uniform and two naval sailors uniforms. Trie PO's uniform was witriout distinguishing marks and the buttons were completely plain, each embossed with a clear anchor, 12, Food stores contained an average amount of dry goods with rather more butter and meat than previously noted. GENERAL INFORMATION 13, A review of trie crew manifest reveals triat trie ship carried eleven new crew members on this voyage. They are shown as having joined the vessel at Vladivostok during the period 26-31 October. However, this appears to be incorrect as trie master stated the vessel arrived at Nakhodka 25 October and departed there 31 October, and it is therefore believed that trie crew joined at Nakriodka. The master added that trie vessel spent 4 days discharging wheat and he spent 2 days at home in Vladivostok with his family. 14« The ship registered and cleared from Nakriodka and arrived at Vancouver at 0030Z 17 November 1957, It is not known but presumed triat trie vessel bunkered at Nakriodka or made a stop off at Vladivostok enroute to Vancouver, It is not probable that trie vessel arrived at Nakhodka on 22 October, discharged in 4 days and spent 26-31 October at Vladivostok. 15* It was learned that the wheat had been discharged by six ton grabs which, completely ruined the shifting boards thus necessitating a complete relining. This would not have occurred if the vessel discharged by using a portable sucker known to exist at Vladivostok, �S E C R E T - 54 . ALEXANDER NEVSKY (Con't) 16, As reported previously, it is still considered that the master is the political officer aboard the vessel, He did not wear a uniform and was dressed in trie same baggy brown pin-stripped suit as he wore on the previous trip. The First Mate, Petr YUMASHEV, was asleep when the vessel arrived and had to be awakened for the passport check. The Second Mate, Filipp POLUNIN, was trie officer of trie day signified by a red band which he wore on his arm,' He was very active and althougri courteous he portrayed a trait of arrogance. The Third Mate, Pavel KDLOKSOLTSSV, conducted the passport check but did not appear to have the characteristics of a political officer. Evaluation: A-2 Date: November 1957 Source: DNI Ottawa S E C R E T 000747 �S E C R E T - 55 U.S.S.R. MERCHANT VESSELS BAKU The BAKU arrived In Vancouver on 13 November 1957 from Vladivostok carrying 840 tons of bunkers. She left on 29 November 1957 for the VladivostokNakhodka area witri- 9225 L/T #3 and #4 Nortriern wheat. Characteristics of the vessel are as follows: 1, (a) Tonnage (GRT) (b) Port of Registry: (c) (d) 7176.49 Vladivostok (some documents give Odessa) USSR Cargo (Liberty) Owners: Type (Passenger, Cargo, Passenger/ Cargo, Tanker, Refrigerator) (e) Signal letters:(f) Year built (completed): (g). Where built: (h) Previous name if any: U-U-N-V 1943 Portland, Oregon, USA David Douglas 2, Length, (overall): 422' 8" 3, Beam: 57 4, (a) Draft Loaded, (b) Draft light. Forward: 26'7" Forward: 6'6" 5, (a) Speeds, Maximum: 13.5 Service: 11.5 1 Aft: 28'10" Aft: 14'8" (b) PPM (for any or all speeds: 6* (a) Type of propulsion: (b) Type fuel: (c) Bunker capacity: (d) Daily consumption of fuel, (e) Fuel Endurance, Steam turbine Oil Bunker C Not in excess of 900 tons if 9200 tons cargo carried Maximum speed: 30 tons Service speed: 26 tons Maximum speed: 28-30 tons S e r v i c e speed: $5-27 t o n s 7, Whetrier fitted for replenishment at sea: Normal, as originally fitted 8, (a) Passenger capacity: Not in excess of 30 men without alteration. 9,300 tons Maximum 30-40 without alterations. (b) (c) Full cargo capacity: If suitable for troop carrying, if so, what capacity: Number of crew: > 10, Number of hatches and holds: 47 ll e Number of derricks: Lifting capacity: 30 t o n Jumbo SWL 1 2 . Armament: 5 & Jumbo 5 5 t o n SWL Nil 000748 �SECRET - 56 -. BAKU (Con't) 13, Strengthened for gun platform (Yes or No): No 14„ Strengthened;for ice (Yes or No): No 15* If fitted with radar equipment (Yes or No): (Describe type and aerial.) Rhssiari manufacture - Neptun Antenna 17„ If fitted with D.F, equipment (Yes or No): (Describe type and aerial). Original 18. If fitted with Echo Sourider (Yes or No): 19. Fitted with Degaussing Gear (Yes or No): (Describe number and location of coils, i.e, whether in the horizontal, vertical longitudinal or-vertical athwartsriips plane.) Original 20„ Fitted with Paravanes (Yes or No): 21c (a) Sequence forward to aft of kingposts, masts and funnel: (b) Type of Hull: (c) Type of Bow: (d) Type of Stem: (e) Type of Funnel: (f) Number and position of boats: (g) Remarks as to unusual features: K/M/F/M Hull riveted - deck electrically welded Original - raked Cruiser Single (Broad), vertical, capped, painted black with 2 ft, red band hammer and Sickle in relief an both sides. 4 boats - #1 & 3 portside, #2 & 4 starboard side. Externally none visible0 22, Registered No. M-2117 23* Net tonnage: 4380 24o Displacement tonnage: 25, Dead weigrit tonnage: 26„ Name of Master: Nikolay LAVSKY - age 45 27 e Name of Wireless Operator: Chief W/T - Michall CAVRIKOV 2nd W/T - Alexander FEDOROV 28c Name of Political Officer: Not known, possible eitrier Vladimir KONCHENKO (1st mate) or Georgy EASKMV (wnd mate). 000749 �S E C R E T - 57 BAKU (Con't) GENERAL REMARKS- - BAKU DECK SPACE - FORE 8c AFTER PEAKS Trie deck was normal and reasonably clean and tidy. Of interest was a large drum of about 6' diameter situated on trie starboard side just aft, of ffA holde The drum was filled to capacity vdth 2" heavy steel wire. The condition of trie wire was clean and covered witri new grease. A well fitted but old canvas cover was over it, 2, flat. Several large cog wheels, painted red, were seen in the steering Degaussing gear was observed in this section also-. 3. Rather more hoses than usual were noted attached to deck peaks or stowed, both rubber and flexible types, 2-3" diameters. However, no particularly long pieces were seen, 4o Black oil was seen to be dripping from a 3" oil outlet in the steering flat, BRIDGE HOUSE 5. The wheelhouse contained trie standard equipment of a Liberty ship and no crianges were noted, 60 Trie radio room was also standard except triat a ship to shore set was observed of Russian manufacture. 7o noted, The radar room was situated normally and no particular changes were (Trie black cylinder was mounted vertically in this case.) 8e The chart house was also standard and the equipment included five' pairs of binoculars, one of whicri was extremely powerful witri a lens of 15 x 50* 9n Also in the chart house 4 ordinary sextants were noted, plus one of an unusual design (see sketch) which was identical to the one carried in STALINGRAD. The Russian officer in attendance appeared very proud of this instrument, however, it appeared to be only a new type bubble sextant. /s*^f&- yiz / Dog Lock \ AAEdge of r o t o r \=s\y H Settings 4 0 , 120, 200 ? I 0 / \ ^ 1 \ v ^ \ 44 i 1 "V ~s y y y 7 / Eye p i e c e (dovetail mount) 6 . 1 / J > Grooved Knobs view through eyepiece 000750 �- 58 BAKU SE.CRI T (Con't) *^,lC-o The Monkey Island was an almost complete replica of the wrieelriouse and contained automatic and manual steering, roll indicator, radar repeaters and speed indicator 1-100, This house was almost completely sided with glass and was very warme Above this house was a binnacle, MACHINERY SPACES llo The engine room and boiler space were clean and the only additional feature observed was an extra fine pump. Communication equipment was standard, I2« A large water filter was noted in the engine room which, was much larger than the usual type of water filter* 13o Trie "special" room previously reported in some vessels of this type was not evidento . 14o • The machine shop was normal with trie exception of a large latrie on a 15' bed - chuck approximately 15" in diameter. 15<* Lockers contained a wide assortment of heavy wrenches and tools including two large caliper gaugesc It was noted that two or three dozen new black overalls were stowed on top of the lockers, l60 Outside the meat locker door were two electric motors, approximately 2 T x 9" in dimension, witri wires leading to the deckhead0 The motors were in use but their function was not obvious except that they were not connected with refrigeration* 17o In the electrical stores were approximately 14 brand new intercommunication hand phones fitted with rubber pads and also several dozen felt sea boot fillers, I85 In a small room above the machine shop were two tanksj approximately 6 ! x 4* x 4'j filled with oii (type not known)» 19ft Two extra large dials (made in USSR) were observed on the engine room control board,, Their function was not known but they have not been observed previously0 OFFICERS' and CREW'S QUARTERS - STORAGE ROOMS,, etc. 20r, Men were accommodated three to a cabin. Four women were carried, three of them shared one cabin and the remaining woman (the doctor) had a cabin by herself,, 210 Many books of instruction, mostly of nautical subjects, were found in the crew's quarters, plus trie usual rather sparse personal belongings, 22c In addition, the following items were found of more than usual interest: trie usual amount of winter clothing plus several dozen knee high sea boots., completely new; one large laundry bag containing 2 or 3 dozen oily jackets; more than trie usual amount of food including one box of Mexican canned tomatoes, a L "> ^rge amount of soap and several car cases of venison, �S E CRE T 59 BAKU (Con5t) '23o The Bosun's cabin contained a projection fil™. unit and photographic enlarging and developing equipment which was far superior to the usual amateur photographic material usually seen, 24* There were two other photographic enlargers found in cabins also 5 cameras as follows: Name of Owner: V, V„ E0 N„ Keuchenko (Chief Hate) Mosnin (Seaman) Ziurniaev (Fireman) Moshchenko(4tri Mate) S 0 Efimov 25- Type t oaa-a & Serj.a]. No„ (Seaman) FED - Y81988 Y8I988 _ 257689 FED 2 257639 LORKI 3 -- 5515193 I.0RKI I0RKI -0180223 - 0180223 SMENA 2 - 334595 SMENA. 2 - 334595 Value: 150 150 190 170 100 One Naval seaman's uniform was found In a suitcase 26c Trie First Officer's cabin contained an abundance of books of varied subjects •- political, nautical and riistory0 In addition triere was a blackboard end pointer .j A metal safe containing trie crew's passports was also in this cabin, m M s safe was later used for the safe stowage of medical drugs0 2?o The female doctor's cabin was normal but an excessive supply of morphia ampules and opium was discovered,. These drugs were removed and stored as stated above,, 28 0 The sick bay contained one bunk and the average number of instruments< Eiere was no evidence of operating facilities.. In this bay was seen a considerable nur.bar of bottles (50-60) containing strong saline solution, also one large package of arsenic and .50 large, clean, empty bottles. The reason for this was not ascertained0 Details of Fittings to Undertake IHiollin^ at Sea 29= The vessel appeared to carry only the normal Liberty ship type and number of fittings for fuelling at sea0 Indications of Hull Strengthening _ for Operations in Arctic Waters 30o While the BAKU was in drydock it was noted that there was consider" able evidence that trie vessel had suffered bottom plate damage either from ice or a wartime explosion,, However,, there was uo indication of hull strengthening;, Back Details cf Voyages, particularly ports of departure for Vancouver and any- Deviations fromJEnbound cr Outbound Routes S 3Io The master stated that he departed PETROPAVL0VSK 28 October for Vancouver and lest the propeller through a broken tail shaft about 500 miles frcm Vancouver,, �- 60 BAKU SECRET (Con't) 32 0 The BAKU was taken in tow by STALINGRAD and the master of STALINGRAD stated that he towed BAKU for 650 miles and as both vessels were light it was an extremely hazardous voyage„ Any Indication of Crew Members Having served with Soviet Navy 33e It was reported that a Naval seaman's uniform was found in a suitcase belonging to a crew member who was not identified. However, it may have been that this was a Russian merchant navy cadet's uniform which, is similar to a Russian naval uniform, Other than this triere was nothing to indicate that any of the crew were members of the Soviet Navya General Impression of Ship and Crew 34o The BAKU was towed into Vancouver because of a broken tail shaft. and was drydocked that evening. Trie shaft was replaced by a spare whicri trie vessel carried in #5 hold "tween decks". The broken one was stowed on board at the request of ths master, A spare propeller from the STEPAN RAZIN was used in trie BAKUo 35o While in drydock the vessel had her bottom cleaned and painted and although this was not urgently required, it was expedient toriaveit done at triis time- The last annual survey was carried out 17 January 1957 at Nakhodka, 3o« A thorough inspection was carried out while the vessel was in drydock which revealed no evidence of any foreign attachment to the vessel and electrolytic effect on the hull was negligible, 37o The vessel was originally scheduled to remain in drydock for 2-3 days, however, as it was suddenly necessary to drydock a Greek vessel, the BAKU vacated trio drydock 36 hours after entering and grinding and packing was completed in the watera 38 e The master spoke English fluently and a few of the officers had a fair knowledge of English,, 39The ship was in a clean condition and it was noted that a good relationship existed between the officers and men. Evaluation: A-2 Date: November 1957 Source: DNI Ottawa SECRET 000753 �S E C R E T - 61 U.S.S.R. MERCHANT VESSELS DEKABRIST The DEKABRIST arrived in Vancouver on 18 December 1957 from Vladivostok carrying 500 tons of bunkers, She left on 8 January, 1958 for the Viadivostok/Nahodka area with 9250.long tons.of wheat. Characteristics of trie vessel are as follows:(a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) Tonnage (GRT) Port of Registry: Owners: Type (Passenger, Cargo, Passenger/ Cargo, T a nker, Refrigerator) Signal l e t t e r s : Year b u i l t (completed): Where b u i l t : (h) Previous name if any: 7176 Vladivostok USSR (BaORFLOT) Cargo UOUL 1943 Oregon Ship Building Corporation, Portland Oregon E.H. HAHRIMAN 422.8' 2, Length 3o Beam: 57.0' 4. (a) Draft loaded, (b) Draft light, Forward: 25' 0" Forward: 6' 0" 5. (a) Speeds, Maximum: lis- Knots Service: 10§ Knots 10^ Knots • 70HPM (b) 60 (overall): RFM (for any or all speeds): (a) Type of propulsion: (b) (c) (d) Type fuel: Bunker capacity: . Daily consumption of fuel. (e) Fuel Endurance, Aft: 29' 0" Aft: 15 s 6" One Triple Expansion Steam Turbine, Bunker C, Oil 600 Tons with. 9200 L/T Cargo, Maximum speed: N.A. Service speed: 25 Tons 0 Maximum speed: N.A. Service speed: 7, Whether fitted for replenishment at sea; Not Observed, 8, (a) Passenger capacity: (b) Full cargo capacity: (c) If suitable for troop carrying, if so, what capacity: Nil 9200 L/T plus 600 tons Oiia 30 under present conditions* 9s Number of crew: 45 10 0 Number of hatcries and h o l d s : 5 110 Number of d e r r i c k s : Lifting capacity: 12 „ Armament: 5 S e t s p l u s Jumbo Nil 5 tons' -50 tons. �S E C R E T - 62 DEKABRIST (Con't) 13. Strengthened for gun platform (Yes or No): Original Aft. Gun platform 14. Strengthened for ice (Yes or No): Extra Skin plating From Bow to Midships* 15. If fitted with radar equipment (Yes or No): (Describe type and aerial,) Yes Neptun Nav. Type. Range 1§-, 5, 15 and 30 Miles. 16, Description of W.T. equipment and aerials: Original MacKay Bank of Transmitters & Receivers. 17. If fitted witri DiF. equipment (Yes or N o ) : (Describe type and aerial*) Yes - Original US Type, 18. If fitted with Echo Sounder (Yes or No): Yes - Original Equipment, 19. Fitted with Degaussing Gear (Yes or No): (Describe number and location of coils, ie: whether in the horizontal, vertical longitudinal or vertical athwartships plane.) Yes u Original Type 20. Fitted with Paravanes (Yes or No): No. 21. (a) Sequence forward to aft of kingposts, masts and funnel: (b) Type of Hull: (c) Type of Bow: (d) Type of Stem: (e) Type of Funnel: D/M/F/M Longitudinal Welded - S t e e l Raked Eliptical, S i n g l e - Broad-Capped, Black w i t h 2 ' Red Band w i t h Hammer & Sickle, 22. Registered No. M-11930 23, Net tonnage: 4235 24. Displacement tonnage: Nil 25, Dead weight tonnage: Nil 26, Name of Master: Vladimir SKALKIN 27. Name of Wireless Operator: V i c t o r MENSHOV 23, Name of Political Officer- Evgeny HODAKDV Age 32 �SEC R E T - 63 DEKABRIST (Con't) GENERAL REMARKS - DEKABRIST DECK SPACES 1» The compartments of t h e for e peak c o n t a i n e d n o t h i n g u n u s u a l . However, a 5 0 ' l e n g t h of 2 " b l a c k r u b b e r hose was n o t i c e d . On e i t h e r s i d e of rr3 hold was seen s e v e r a l 1 6 ' l e n g t h s of l i g h t 2" r a i l r o a d t r a c k welded t o t h e deck (see s k e t c h ) . Rails 6" hi^h l ,—/' ) 2 * The vessel carried one spare anchor and 1 spare propeller with welded blades and bolted nose piece. 3. Under the gun platform was seen a 30' length of 5" black corrugated rubber hose fitted with bolted flanges. On trie gun platform itself was a 70' lengtri of 2" rubber riose. There was also a small gasoline engine on the gun platform and about a 14' dingriy, i*a Trie accommodation under trie gun platform contained several bunks without mattresses. This accommodation was not in use and condition of trie cabins was poor. One of the cabins contained twenty 100-lb. sacks of flour plus miscellaneous electrical stores, 5a Trie steering flat contained several lengtris of small (approx. 2T') black riose in coils. In triis same compartment six trousers and six coats of khaki, also winter clothing, was observed. A ^" jury rig as an aid to steering was in place In triis vessel as reported in previous vessels. of recent use, Four life boats were housed amidships and there was no evidence BRIDGE SPACE 8 » Trie upper wheelhouse contained trie usual equipment including gyro (of trie type that does not click), radar with range 1,5, 5, 15 and 30, and repeater. �I S E C R E T DEKABRIST - 64 - (Con't ) 9, The main wheelhouse was a l s o s t a n d a r d f o r t h i s t y p e of L i b e r t y s h i p and two Walker l o g s were s e e n . T e l e g r a p h s were m e c h a n i c a l . The r e v o l u t i o n I n d i c a t o r was not working and t h e c a p t a i n s t a t e d t h a t 70 r e v s , produces lOijr k n o t s . Gyro was l o c a t e d i n trie main wheelhouse w i t h a r e p e a t e r i n t h e c a p t a i n ' s c a b i n , D/F equipment was trie o r i g i n a l US t y p e , 10, The Chart room c o n t a i n ed an e l e c t r i c log i n d i c a t o r , 3 v e r n i e r type s e x t a n t s and one new t y p e bubble s e x t a n t * There were a l s o two chronometers, one w i t h graph and one bf t h e o r i g i n a l t y p e , b o t h i n good working c o n d i t i o n . The ocho sounder was of t h e American FATHOMETER f l a s h t y p e , probably o r i g i n a l e q u i p ment j but not i n good working c o n d i t i o n , 11, A l l c h a r t s observed were Russia n i n c l u d i n g t h o s e Of t h e Juan de Fuca S t r a i t s a r e a . The c a p t a i n mentioned t h a t he had o r d e r e d a c h a r t of Vancouver I s l a n d but h i s a u t h o r i t i e s were not a b l e t o supply him w i t h one, 12, W i r e l e s s equipment was s t a n d a r d w i t h t h e o r i g i n a l MacKay bank of t r a n s m i t t e r s and r e c e i v e r s . I n a d d i t i o n a sriip t o s h i p s e t was i n s t a l l e d . T h i s s e t was superimposed w i t h a s m a l l mechanical c l o c k . 13, O f f i c e r s ' , c a b i n s were w e l l k e p t . Three .22 r i f l e s Were seen i n triese q u a r t e r s . The f i r s t mate had an e n l a r g e r and a 35 mm camera. The f o u r t h mate.had a g r e a t e r supply of p o l i t i c a l books t h a n i s normal, ENGINE ROOM 14, The main engine and boiler room appeared to be unaltered and contained the usual Liberty installations. Engine room response was good, 15, Trie small room which has been seen in other Russian vessels at trie forward end of the boiler room was not accessible. The door or entrance to this compartment had been welded solid, 16, The machine shop contained once again trie new treble purpose 9' lathe with a 12'" chuck. The original 6" American lathe was also in place together with a new Russian drill press. 17, The CO2 locker in trie engine room was used for stowage purposes, 18, up. Degaussing coils which ran trirougri the 'tween decks was connected CREW'S ACCOMMODATION 19, Trie crew members appeared to be young and alert. Their quarters were well kept and nothing of ah unusual nature was observed in their accommodation, 20, The cinema was located on the port side of trie main saloon with trie usual 16 mm projector togetrier witri 8 large boxes of fil, - subject matter not ascertained. 21, The sick bay was average and earried a fair amount of surgical instruments. There was no indication of operating facilities. The Docotr was a young man on his first sea voyage. �S_E_C..R E_T - 65 DEKABRIST (con't) 22. Priotographic equipment owned by the crew was not extensive and included one photographic enlarger and several rolls of film. 23. Several parts of naval type uniforms were observed amongst personal possessions but no complete uniforms, 24. There was a good supply of dry stores aboard, all of Russian origin, plus considerable amount of clean linen. The sealed locker contained the usual amount of supplies for the captain and officers in the way of cigarettes, drink, etc, 25o Trie Bosun's stores included several sheepskin coats and other types of winter clothing. There was also an old 4 cylinder auto engine plus spare parts and one large motor generator about 4* long, 26, Additional lockers in this flat contained more winter clothing. The quantity was not excess but it would appear triat triere was more carried trian necessary for trie crew, 27, Refrigeration stores were in good supply and contained beef, mutton, fish, cheese, herring and Chinese chicken and duck. The vegetable locker contained Chinese vegetables of various kinds, CAMERAS 28, Eight cameras were r e g i s t e r ed with trie Customs & Excise Department as follows: Name of Owner V, A. E. V, E. I. N, A, Skalkin Kres Hodakov larkatov Gormov Prigunov Teleznov Litniy master Cri mate 1st mate doctor sailor sailor maeh. fireman Type & 1serial No. of camera 1 Value 5733180 Zorky Contaky--a 44656 Smena 5449443 FED 144633 Zorky 56072300 497290 FED 515310 FED Zorky-C 56017326 950 R 960 250 500 750 500 500 750 Back Details of Voyages 29, Within the last 7 months trie vessel has been to Egypt, CUba, South Africa, Germany (Kiel Canal) and"Minsk, Triere was also every indication that trie vessel visited Japan recently, 30, • The vessel departed Nakriodka on 30 November 1957 and arrived at Vancouver on 18 December, It is two years since trie"vessel was drydocked and her speed is very much reduced because of bottom growth. The master complained that trie vessel was very slow. Trie eastbound passage was made on the 50th parallel to Vancouver with following wind's most of the time. The vessel approached within 50 miles of the Aleutian Chain, �sjLiULJLi - 66 DEKABRIST (Con't) 31. Trie DEKABRIST loaded 9250 long tons (345,333/30 bu.) frA Northern wheat and sailed from Vancouver at 0300Z on 8 January 1958 for VladivostokETA 25 January 1958, 32. It was noted that trie vessel was loaded to trie summer mark and although the master stated that he was proceeding back by the "summer zone" (southerly route) he has in fact been routed via trie "winter zone". Any Indication of Crew Members Having Served with Soviet Navy 33. It is very possible that trie First Officer mayriavebeen at one time if not at present associated with, the Soviet Navy, General Impression of Ship & Crew 34« Trie pilot was well received aboard trie vessel and stated triat no language difficulties were experienced. He said the captain'made a point of indicating Ssquiraalt harbour to both trie first and second mates. One camera was in use while entering Vancouver harbour, 35« The captain is married and rias 2 children. He said that he had been in Vancouver in 1945* Both trie captain and first mate were born in Vladivostok and it was said triat triey are never away from their home port more than 5 months at a time, 36. The first mate has spent six years in triis vessel and' expects to take command when trie present captain leaves sometime in trie new year. It was learned triat trie Russiansriave3 nautical scriools at Odessa, Leningrad and Vladivostok, Trie first mate, wrio spoke Englisri very well, attended one of these and said that the course in the Russian naval colleges lasts for 5| years. Trie first mate's father is trie captain whoriasriadtrie longest service as captain in trie Russian merchant fleet. Trie captain of the DEKABRIST said triat the former master of the V MAYAKOVSKY is now taking a one year course in special instruments, 37. The captain said that trie STALINGRAD, BAKU and STEPHEN RAZIN ran into severe weather on their return passage from Vancouver, The BAKU had a broken water pipe in #3 hold which spoiled a considerable amount of grain. The STEPHEN RAZIN and STALINGRAD lostriatcricovers over #1, 2 and 3rioldsand riad to heave to. 38. The captain stated that trie DEKABRIST will be in Havana in February for sugar. Evaluation: Date: Source: A-2 December, 1957 DNI Ottawa SECRET �- 67 SECRET U.S.8.R. MERCHANT VESSELS DJURMA Trie DJURMA arrived in Vancouver on 29 November 1957 from Provideniya carrying 800 tons of bunkers, Srie left on 7 December 1957 for trie Vladivostok/ Nakriodka area witri . 7850 long tons (293,066/40 busriels) #4 wheat. Characteristics of trie vessel are as follows: 1, 2, (a) (b) (c) (d) 6908 NOGASVO USSR (MORFLOT) Cargo (h) Previous name if any: U/P/K/Z 1921 New Waterway S.B, CO, Ltd, Schiedam Holland Brielle - 1935 Lengtri (overall): 402.6' Tonnage (GRT) Port of Registry: Owners: Type (Passenger, Cargo, Passenger/ Cargo, Tanker, Refrigerator) (e) Signal letters: (f) Year built (completed): (g) Where built: 3, Beam: 58.4' 4, (a) Draft loaded, (b) Draft light. Forward: Forward: 5, (a) Speeds, Naximum: Service: 10.5 71-72 for 10.5 Kts. (b) RPM (for any or all speeds): 28' 6' Aft: 28' 1" Aft: 16' 2" (e) Fuel Endurance, Triple expansion steam turbine Oil - Bunker C 900 tons with 8000 (summer loadline) cargo. Maximum speed: 28-30 tons Service speed: 25-27 tons Maximum speed: 30 days Service speed: 36 days. 7, Whether fitted for replensihment at sea: As originally fitted 8, (a) Passenger capacity: (b) Full cargo capacity: (c) If suitable for troop carrying, if so, what capacity: Nil 8000 tons with 900 tons fuel. Under present conditions about 30-40 6, (a) Type of propulsion: (b) Type fuel: (c) Bunker capacity: (d) Daily consumption of fuel, 9, Number of crew: 48 10, Number ofriatcriesand holds* 5 11, Number of derricks: Lifting capacity: 5 tons - 50 tons reported 2 booms removed 5 sets jumbo. �S E C R E T - 68 DJURMA (Con't) 12. Armament: Nil 13. Strengthened for gun platform (Yes or No): No 14. Strengthened for ice (Yes or N o ) : No 15. If fitted with radar equipment (Yes or N o ) : (Describe type and aerial,) Yes Usual Russian Nav, type Neptun Aerial, 16. Description of W.T; equipment and aerials: Bank of MacKay transmitters and Russian receivers. 17. If fitted witri D.F. equipment (Yes or No): (Describe type and aerial) Standard loop antenna 18. If fitted witri Ecrio Sounder (Yes or No): Yes 19'. Fitted witri Degaussing Gear (Yes or No): (Describe number and location of coils, ie: wrietrier in trie horizontal, vertical longitudinal or vertical atriwartsriips plane".) Not observed. 20. Fitted witri Paravanes (Yes or No): No 21. (a) Sequence forward to aft. of kingposts, masts and funnel: (b) Type of Hull: (c) Type of Bow: (d) Type of Stem (e) Type of Funnel: (f.) Number and position of boats: Riveted Raked Elliptical Brood - single 4 (l motorized) 22. Registered No, 11643 23. Net tonnage: 24. Displacement tonnage: N/A 25. Bead weigrit tonnage: N/A 26. Name of Master: Genrik RODZIK 27o Name of Wireless Operator: G a v r i l SAMOILENKO, Criief W/T o p e r a t o r ; Alexander LARTSEV, W/T O p e r a t o r . 28. Name of P o l i t i c a l V a s i l y MELEHEN, officer: �SECRET -69 DJURMA (Con't) GENERAL REMARKS - DJURMA DECK SPACES 1, dition* 3Deck spaces were reasonably clean and running gear was in good con- 2, A: 3*-ton truck was carried on trie gun platform. Trie maker's name was H.M, Monotbba'i Trie truck riad a flat deck^ stake sides and was open at trie topi A similar truck was carried on trie snip on her previous visit in 1956, 3, The steering flat contained jury steering gear attached and similar to that previously described as a steering aid in trie PSKOV report, 4o Trie following amounts ofriosewere carried: (a) Stowed on deck — black rubber corrugated riose fitted with, oil-smeared blanks - 1 piece 8" 70' long, 2 pieces 6" 70' long, plus two pieces 6" 35' long, (b) Stowed in upper deck alleyway starboard side 1 piece 2" black rubber riose 400' long, and on trie portside 1 piece 2"riose250' long, (c) Several small pieces of riose ori deck, eacri about 20' long and 6" diameter, (d) Triere were several new rolls of canvas riose in trie forepeak, 5. Trie #3 hold has a tank about 10 feet higri covering trie entire floor of trie hold just above trie double bottom tanks, 6, Trie riouse under trie after gun platform contained 5 spare cabins each with 2 berths and mattresses, MACHINERY SPACES 7* Trie engine room appeared to be conventional in all respects and no alterations were noted since trie vessel visited Vancouver in 1956, It was observed triat trie engine room response was very prompt, 8, Trie machine shop housed a lathe with a 7" chuck on a 7* bed and a large Mack petrol engine which, was hooked up to a generator. It is considered that this is connected with auxiliary lighting. �* 70 DJURMA LAIQUT OF BRIDGE 20" search light Kadar repeater 0 Mochb Tblegraph <fc Revolution Indicator Gyro Repeater 20" ooarch litfit Binnacle Flag Loekor MacKay D/F Fathomster (US) Binoculars) & Sextants Radar Chart Table ) ) Chronometers (no cylindor) Russian Sounder MacKay D/F MIDSHIPS ACCOMMODATION Funnel Midship H o u o ina g Radio Tumtablo 5 band receiver and amplifier Russian Receivers MacKay Transmitters Auto Alasm 000763 �SECRET -71 DJURMA (Con't) BRIDGE SPACES 9, The radio cabin contained trie usual bank of MacKay transmitters together' with Russian receivers and a Russian auto alarm, 10, Bridge communication was by voice pipe and telephone, 11, Revolutions for various speeds were as follows: Bead Slow - 20, Slow - 25, Half - 40-45, Pull 71-72 for 10,5 knots. Revolution counter marked up to 100, 12 e Canadian and American cherts were found to be in use. Corrections were about 2 years beriind. Trie master inquired about obtaining new criarts In Vancouver, T 13• rie conjunction box was marked was in trie Captain's cabin, (T J ^-^ An additional gyro repeater CREW'S QUARTERS 14* Crew's cabins were standard and notriing of interest was noted beyond trie fact triat very little of trie usual photographic material was seen, 15« Several parts of naval uniforms were found in the personal effects of crew members. One seaman (unidentified) admitted heriadbeen in trie Navy, Several seamenriadmany books of instruction and triey appeared to be students. One vernier sextant was found in a seaman's cabin in a box marked "CH0 #6371"• l60 Two spare cabins on trie lower main deck were found to be full of potatoes, loosely stored and filling eacri cabin,,. The temperature in both cabins was high., over 75° E, and there was no ventilation.. 17c The refrigeration machinery was not in working order and triere appeared to be no fresh meat or fish aboard,. There was a considerable amount of canned goods including canned duck packed in China, I80 It was noted that triere was a surplus of linen stowed; over 100 spare matresses were seen, plus a similar number of srieets and blankets,, all in new conditlon„ Trie dirty linen locker was full to excess of soiled srieets and pillow cases. Less Arctic clothing than usual was seen,,, 19c unusable. One locker contained 24 Cia bottles in bad condition and considered 20, The projection room was located as usual behind the main saloon in whicri triere was a 10' x 12' screen, CAMERA LIST 21c The following cameras were registered with the Customs & Excise Department: Type & Serial Name of Owner No,, of Camera Value N. Maevstey Doctor Z0RKY-3 547981 #375 R, Hanjenkov Navigator ZORKY 239867 175 V, Chus Machinist ZORKY;;. 55244413 175 000764 �-72 DJURMA SECRET - (Con't) Details of Fittings to Undertake Fuelling at Sea 22. Trie vessel appeared to carry only trie normal fittings for taking on oil fuel. Indications of Hull Strengthening for Operations in Arctic Waters 23-J No indication of hull strengthening for operations in Arctic waters was observed. Back details of voyages, particularly ports of departure for Vancouver and any deviations from Inabound or Outbound Routes 24e It is noted by trie sriip's decuments triat trie vessel's activities riave been confined to trie Far East since departure from Vancouver, B.C., on 1 June 1956 witri a cargo of wrieat for Nakriodka, 25, It was observed triat trie vessel was surveyed at Vladivostok on 2 October 1957. General Impression of Ship and Crew 26 0 Trie DJURMA was built in Schiedam, Holland in 1921 and riad a major refit in 1950* s h e was in good condition and clean trirougriout, 27 a Bridge discipline was relaxed and easy until an order was given, and orders were than carried out promptly and efficiently,, 28 c Trie Second fete spoke fair Englisri and related triat rie riad been on trie nortriern route during trie past summer. He stated triat trie vessel riad traded with. Communist and Satellite countries and India in recent months. He also said that a considerable number of factories had grown up on trie nortriern route and triat trie workers in triose areas received special privileges and extensive leave facilities, 29o Trie master spoke English, well and had visited Vancouver in 1956. He stated that rie was going on six months leave witri riis family to trie Black Sea area by air on conclusion of triis trip or trie next, sriould riis vessel return .here, 30. During the boarding formalities conversation turned to Sputnick and the master stated rie rieard news broadcasts from Russia giving an account of an interview between Mr. R. Hearst and Kruscriev, Trie master said triat Mr, Hearst stated rie could not print riis entire interview witri Kruscriev, only part of it. Trie news announcer said triis was typical of trie Americans, only printing trie part advantageous for them to do so. When Mr. Selivanov asked Vasily MELEKIN (believed to be the sriip's political officer) if rie rieard trie broadcast, rie replied in Russian, "I rieard it all", confirming triat triey can monitor Russian broadcasts quite easily on their receiving sets. Evaluation: Date: Source: S E C R E T A-2 December 1957 DNI Ottawa �SECRET. - 73 U.S.S.R. MERCHANT VESSELS ERIVAN Trie ERIVAN arrived in Vancouver on 20 December 1957 from Vladivostok carrying 900 tons of bunkers. Srie left on 8 January 1958 for trie Vladivostok/Nakriodka area witri 9050 long tons wrieato Characteristics of the vessel are as follows:1„ (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (ri) Tonnage (GRT) 7176 Port of Registry: Vladivostok Owners: " USSR (MORFLOT) Type (Passenger, Cargo, Passenger/Cargo. Cargo, Tanker, Refrigerator) Signal letters: U-U-N-T Year built (completed): 1943 Where built: Oregon Ship Building Corpl, Portland, Oregon, USA. Previous name if any: JOSEPH WATT 2, Lengtri (overall): 422.8' 3, Beam: 57,0! 4, (a) (b) Draft loaded, Draft light, Forward: Forward: 27' 2" 10' 6" 5° (a) Speeds 0 11_ Knots 10|- Knots (b) RPM (for any or all speeds): Maximum: Service: NK (a) (b) Type of propulsion: Type fuel: (c) Bunker capacity: (d) Daily consumption of fuel c (e) Fuel Endurance. 6. Aft: Aft: 28' 6" 19' 0" 1 triple expansion steam turbine Bunker T'C" oil, 900 tons with. 9050 tons cargo loaded to summer draft. Maximum speed: 27-30 tons Service speed: $4-26 tons Maximum speed: N/K Service speed: 7, Wrietrier fitted for replenisriment at sea, None fitted. 8r. (a) Passenger capacity: (b) Full cargo capacity: Nil 9050 tons with 900 tons bunkers (summer mark) 30 under present conditions. (c) If suitable for troop carrying, if so, what capacity: Number of Crew: 42 10* Number of batches and holds: 5 11o Number of derricks: 9» 5 & Jumbo Lifting capacity: 5 tons50 tons 0 12 o 13 0 Armament: Strengthened for gun platform (Yes or No): Nil 1 aft - Liberty Type �SECRET - 74 ERIVAN (Con't ) 14, Strengthened for ice (Yes or No): Extra plates onriullfrom bow to midships both sides. 15. If fitted witri radar equipment (Yes or No): (Describe type and aerial,) Yes - Neptun Nav, Type - Russian Manufacture, 16. Description of W.T, equipment and aerials: Original MacKay receivers and transmitters - clothesline aerial. 17. If fitted with D.F. equipment (Yes or No): (Describe type and aerial) 18. If fitted witri Ecrio Sounder (Yes or N 0 ) : 19. Fitted witri Degaussing Gear (Yes or No): (Describe number and location of coils, i.e.: wrietrier in trie horizontal, vertical longitudinal or vertical atriwartsriips plane,) 20. Fitted witri Paravanes (Yes or No): 21. (a) Sequence forward to aft of kingposts, K/M/F/M masts and funnel; (b) Type of Hull: Steel - welded (c) Type of Bow: Raked (d) Type of Stem: Elliptical (e) Type of Funnel: Single - broad - capped - vertical 2' red band on black funnel - Hammar & Sickle in relief on botri sides. 22. Registered No, 11955 23. Net tonnage: 4380.41 tons 24. Displacement tonnage: NK 25. Dead weigrit tonnage: NK 26. Name of Master: Vladimir MORDVINOV - Age 47 27. Name of Wireless Operator: Afanasy RaBODZEENKO 28. Name of Political Officer: Dmitry NAHOV Yes - original double loop, Yes - 1 US - 1 Russian Seen in "Tween decks longitudinal. No. �SECRET - 75 ERIVAN (Con't) GENERAL REMARKS - ERIVAN DECK SPACES 1. The forward compartments contained nothing unusual with trie exception of an unmeasured amount of well greased 2§" heavy steel cable plus 5 bolts of felt material. Each bolt was .approximately 6' wide and 2^-' thick. The felt appeared to be ^-" thick* Also observed was a fishing net and sails for a small boat* 2'a The Carpenter's shop contained a box of fire extinguishers. Trie dimension of trie box was 4' x 2' x 3' and trie only recognizable marking on the box was "78 Kilo", 3» Extra tanks were installed over trie double bottom tanks in ffl, 2 and 3 riolds. In addition, triere was an extra tank in triis vessel situated in frA riold forward and above trie double bottom tank (see sketcri). #1 #2 #4 #3 Engine Double bottom tanks Room Extra Tank D.B. 4. Two winches were missing at trie forward end of #2 riold, D/G coils were observed tween decks. One spare anchor was carried on deck. 5. The following amounts of hose were seen: 9 pieces 10' x 2" black rubber corrugated riose witri couplings - no evidence of use, 2 pieces 20' x 2" black rubber riose - stowed overhead, 3 pieces 10' x 6" corrugated hose with bolted flanges showed under gun platform, 6. Oil outlets in trie midships alleyway were standard, however, trie one on trie port side riad oil smeared around trie flange and was dripping sligritly. 7, In trie after accommodation eleven steel beds were seen witriout mattresses, Triis accommodation was not in use. Stowed in triis accommodation were 20 sacks of potatoes, several bolts of canvas, football gear and one priotograpriic enlarger. �S E C R E T - 76 ERIVAN (Con't) 8, In trie steering flat a jury steering gear rig was observed, also an additional amount of coiled black rubber 2s' riose, 9, Trie vessel carried 4 life boats, 1 motorized. One boat sriowed evidence of being damaged by sea. Several sand boxes were observed * around trie deck, BRIDGE SPACES 10, Trie bridge and chart room equipment appeared to be standard for triis type of vessel. Trie following items were specifically noted: (a) PA room was wriere the head was originally* (b) Speed log indicator on bridge^' (c) Russian D/F double loop aerial. (d) Radar had Neptun type aerial, (e) Radio room had MacKay bank plus small Russian receiver"and the usual somewhat larger Russian receiver, (f) The summer wheelhouse contained gyro, radar repeater and wheel only, (g) Five pump of the 2 man hand type was on trie boat deck. (ri) Trie motor generator room contained 2 large motor generators, 9 additional motor generators connected up plus 2 disconnected, (i) 2 Fatriometers were observed - one American and one Russian, (j) 3 vernier sextants and 1 new bubble type, 11, Trie previously reported special triermoraeter was not seen but was described by a Russian as being called a "Secrometer", 12, Sounding booms were located on both sides of bridge and fitted with. Kelvin type sounding apparatus, 13, Binoculars seen were in poor condition, 7x50 and 3 smaller pairs, Triere was one pair MACHINE SHOP 14, The machine sriop contained a US latrie with, a 6' bed and a 9" chuck, Triere was also one of trie new treble purpose Russian latries, Triis latrie is on a 9' bed, rias a 12" criuck'and is about 6' high.. It is alternatively used as a milling machine and driller, 15, On trie level above trie machine shop was another room containing refrigerating machinery and a new Russian made drill press, 16, Standard fire fighting equipment was observed. is not in use as sucri and is used for stowage, Trie CO2 room ENGINE ROOM 17, The engine room had trie usual Liberty i n s t a l l a t i o n s with no modifications i n evidence. �SEC ERIVAN RET 77 - (Con't) 18, Trie small room previously described at the forward end of the boiler room was seen. Certain changes in location of trie instruments were noted, (See sketch) Ford Peephole Well A Generator Dial Panel CREW SPACES 19. name "Estonia", The cinema room contained a new 16 mm projeotor with, a brand 20, In this particular ship a system of responsibility was observed in triat several compartments were under trie responsibility of individual members of trie crew and trie keys for these compartments were in trieir possession, For example, one of trie senior sailors appeared to be in criarge of all dry stores. This particular man also had 24 rolls of 35 mm film plus photograpris of trie sriip in trie Suez Canal, Cape Town and at Singapore, He also riad several packages of US cigarettes purchased in Singapore, 21, Trie sick bayriadtrie usual supplies of medicine; very few surgical instruments and no operating facilities were in evidence. For trie first time several vials of chloroform were found in trie sick bay, 22, An interesting book was observed in one of trie firemen's cabins. It was described as a triesis on trie tactical use of atomic warfare as applied to land and sea warfare. It would appear that the book had no classification and yet it was not trie type of book triat would be put up for sale. Several pagesriadillustrations of some form of atomic explosion or the effects of such explosions on vehicles, troops, ships, etc. The illustrations were in biack and white. 23, The "Red Room" or crew's library was average and It was noted that there were no novels in existance. The only light reading matter was magazines"apart from books of instruction, Magazines in English and French were seen. 24, A considerable amount of Arctic clothing was found in trie crew's cabins and not so much as usual in stowage lockers below. 25, Cabins were sparsely furnished but clean. Three stewardesses shared one cabin. The crew expressed intentions of spending quite a lot of money �S E C R E T 00 7 8 - ERIVAN (Con't) in Vancouver on luxury items and clotriing. The senior sailor referred to above was found to have a considerable amount of Canadian money in his possession. Trie exact amount was not ascertained but contained several bills of $10 and $20 denomination. 26. Dry.stores were in fair supply and trie refrigeration compartment contained good quantities of beef, mutton, crab and other fish. It is notable that pork is never sedn in these vessels. 27. The Bosun's stores were standard with the exception of several bolts of new brown heavy canvas and a large number of leather knee boots and sheep skin lined knee boots. The Bosun's stores also contained several emergency electic lamps for use under water and in each officers' cabin a similar lamp was seen. Also amongst triese stores were a number of calcium carbide cannisters, 28. In a locker below trie crew's quarters were found approximately six each of trousers and jackets of heavy quality and covered with dirty oil. On trie same level existed a small electrician's store room which contained a large number of 100 watt electric light bulbs. 29. The crew appeared to be young and keen. They were not too friendly during the search of trieir quarters, CAMERAS 30. ment a s f o l l o w s : S i x cameras were r e g i s t e r e d witri trie Customs & E x c i s e D e p a r t - Name of Owner Make & Serial No. of Camera I. Kulakov Doctor V, Vlasov Sailor I, Barabasri Elect, G, Yurcrienko 3rd Engr, Ship's Camera Ship's Camera ZORKY ZORKY ZORKY ZORKY ZORKY KIEV 3C 2 2 3M 5636406 56085639 5561511 5512143 451807 551307 Value $340 183 183 340 161 500 Back Details of Voyages 31. The ERIVAN sailed from Petropavlosk on 7 December and arrived at Vancouver at 0200Z on 20 December 1957. It is believed trie vesselriasrecently been employed in Asiatic trade including Criina and Japan, 32. The vessel loaded 9050 Long Tons (337,866/40 bu) #4 wheat and departed Vancouver at 2200Z on 8 January 1958 for Vladivostok - ETA 27 January. General Impression of Ship fc Crew 33» The master of this vessel appeared to be more sedate trian otrier Russian masters. He wore a single broad ring denoting a Captain First Class, He stated rie was master of trie Russian vessel TUNGUS wriicri visited Vancouver in 1945« �S E C R E T - 79 ERIVAN (Con't) 34, I t was evident triat trie m a s t e r commanded f u l l a u t r i o r i t y on trie v e s s e l and conducted trie e n t i r e boarding procedure witriout i n c i d e n t . When t o l d triat Moscow would not autriorize overtime payment t o load v e s s e l s , trie c a p t a i n r e p l i e d rie would t a k e trie r e s p o n s i b i l i t y of overtime i f rie triougrit loading warranted i t * Evaluation: Date: Source: A-2 December, 1957 DNI Ottawa SECRET �S E C R E T 8DU. S. Si ; R. MERCHANT VESSELS ^ENERiAL PANFILPV The GENERAL PANFILOV arrived in Vancouver on 7 December 1957 from Vladivostik carrying 905 tons of bunkers. She left on 21 December 1957 for the Vladivostok/Nakhodka area witri 9200 long: tons wrieat. Criaracteristics of trie vessel are as follows: 1. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (ri) 2. Tonnage (GRT) Port of Registry: Owners: Type (Passenger, Cargo, Passenger/ Cargo, Tanker, Refrigerator) Signal letters: Year built (completed): Wriere built: Previous name if any: Length (overall): 7216 VLADIVOSTOK USSR (MORFLOT) Cargo U-U-O-M 1944 Permanente (Shipyd #2) Richmond GEORGE E. G00DFSLL0W 422.8' 3. Beam: 57.0' 4. (a) Draft loaded, (b) Draft light. Forward: Forward: 4' 8" Aft: Aft: 16' 8" 5. (a) Speeds, (b) RPM (for any or all speeds): Maximum: N.A. Service: 6B (a) (b) (c) (d) Steam turbine triple expansion. Oil - bunker 905 tons at 9200 tons cargo Maximum speed: 30tons) Service speed: 25 tons) Approx. Maximum speed: 36 days Service speed: 3C days Type of propulsion: Type fuel: Bunker capacity: Daily consumption of fuel, (e) Fuel Endurance, 7, Wriether fitted for replenisriment at sea: No, 8, (a) Passenger capacity: (b) Full cargo capacity: (c) If suitable for troop carrying, if, so, what capacity: 9, Number of crew: Nil 9200 Lt, 30-40 under present conditions. 43 10, Number of batches and holds: 5 11, Number of derricks: Lifting capacity: 12, 5 sets - Jumbo Armament: 13, Strengthened for gun platform (Yes or No): Nil. No* 5 tons50 tons. �S E C R E T - -81- " • GENERAL PANFILOV (Con't) 14, Strengtriened for ice (Yes or No): Extra bracing in #1 riold, 15, If fitted witri radar equipment (Yes or No): (Describe type and aerial,) 16, Description of W.T. equipment and aerials: 17, If fitted witri D.F. equipment (Yes or No):Yes, Loop antenna* (Describe type and aerial.) 18, If fitted witri Ecrio Sounder (Yes or No): Yes, USSR type Neptun aerial. MacKay receiver & transmitter plus USSR Receiver. Yes. 19, Fitted witri Degaussing Gear (Yes or No): Yes, Horizontal. (Describe number and location of coils, iie. wrietrier in trie horizontalj vertical longitudinal or vertical atriwartsriips plane*) 20, Fitted with Paravanes (Yes or No): No, 21, (a) Sequence forward to aft, of kingposts, K/M/F/M masts and funnel: (b) Type of Hull: Welded (0) Type of Bow: Raked (d) Type of Stem Cruiser (e) Type of Funnel: Broad - capped -single black with 2' red band with Hammer & Sickle in red, 22, Registered No, 11515 23, Net tonnage: 4382 24, Displacement tonnage: N.A. 25, Dead weight tonnage; N.A. 26, Name of Master: Mikhail SERIH 27, Name of Wireless Operator: GORNOVSKY, Georgy TITSKOVSKY, Igor 28 6 Name of Political Officer: IVANOV, Nikolay - 1st Mate, �S E C R E T - 82 GENERAL PANFILOV (Con't) GENERAL REMARKS - GENERAL PANFILOV DECK SPACES and HOLDS 10 Two tanks running trie entire beam of trie sriip 10' high existed in ffl and #3 holds just above the double bottom tanks, 4" pipes lead to the main deck at either side of each tank to a valve wriicri was bolted to trie bulwark situated at edge of trie fore deck in each case,. At trie time of observation trie tank tops were off and trie tanks triemselvesriadbeen cleaned out by ship's personnel preparatory to taking grain aboard. Steam coils were seen in these two tanks, 2C Trie fore peak and after peak spaces contained no more than the normal Stores and equipment, 12 spare bunks and mattresses were seen in the after housing under the gun platform0 The contents were dirty and there was no sign of recent usee 3^ The condition of trie deck was in all respects normal and running gear was seen to be in good working order, Extra bracing was observed between decks in #1 riold. 4a Only a small amount of hose was observed including 300-400' of 2" black rubberriosein trie fore peak and a similar quantity of trie same type aft0 Degaussing gear coils were observed in trie shelter deck, 5* A spare propeller was stowed on the gun platform. Four life boats were carried and one dinghy; there was no evidence of recent use, BRIDGE SPACE 60 Trie layout and functional capability of trie bridge was similar to previous Russian liberty snips,riowever,trie following points were observed. (a) The summer wheelhouse contained Russian gyro and trie original Sperry, The Russian set was used during passage from Brotcriie Ledge to Vancouver but trie master mentioned triat trie Sperry is used to traverse Russian coastal waters. Echo sounder, radar repeater, original telegraphs, rudder indicator were also located in the summer wheelhouse and Pelorus on the wings 0 (b) The main wheelriouse contained radar and Sperry. (c) Trie binoculars were in poor shape and only two pairs were observed on trie bridge, riowever, two large pairs, probably 15 x 50, were seen in trie Captain's cabin, (d) One sprierical U type thermometer was seen and of interest is the fact that trie escorting officer when asked what this was used for replied quite abruptly that it was for use in icy waters. �S E C R E T -83 GENERAL PANFILOV (e) ~' (Con't) No speed-log indicator was seen on trie bridge,. (f) Trie radio cabin contained trie usual MacKay bank of radios and transmitters plus a Russian receiver, Triere were two unused bunks in trie radio cabin,-, (g) "Trie motor generator room contained 9 generators coupled up and in use-, (ri) The PA room contained tape recorder, domestic radio and PA equipment., (i) Four small life boat compasses were found in locker in trie chart room,., ENGINE ROOM & MACHINE SHOP 7e The machine shop had a normal lathe (original) on a 9' bed with an 8" chuck, drill press and grindstone,, 8„ ships 0 The engine room was not so clean as in previously visited Russian 9e Trie small room previously reported at trie forward end of trie boiler room was found to be empty;. The speed-log indicator on trie engine room panel was disconnected0 10o In trie CO2 room on the port side of the engine room a new Russian made lathe on an 8 ! bed and with a 9" chuck was observed. The design on triis latrie was extremely advanced and it riad a powerful capability. It appeared to be designed so that trie latrie could be elevated and used in positions otrier trian .horizontal* Four small spare criucks were seenc It would appear triat triis latrie could be converted to a small milling macriine witri easee In addition, triere was a large drill press in trie same room,, CREW'S QUARTERS M P STORES 11<, A smaller amount trian average of Arctic clothing, dirty linen and clean linen was in evidence. Souvenirs of Bombay and blankets marked "made in Venice" were seenr. 12. The crew ? s quarters appeared to be clean and nothing of unusual interest was noted0 One photograph, sriowed a class of naval seamen witri one of trie sriip's company (unidentified) in trie picture, dated 1954^ A female stewardess riad a picture of herself in Naval (WREN) uniform,, 130 Photographic equipment on board was less than average and included only one enlarger., 14« In a cabin which, is used as a library or recreational area described as the "Red Room" were several photographs of crew members who were recipients of awards of merit for efficiency^ These included trie Bosun, carpenter and a stewardess& Trias room was situated on trie main deck just'aft of trie stairway leading to trie refrigeration space (alongside trie galley), 150 The male doctor had a c a b i n on t h e p o r t s i d e of t h e main deck and t h e s i c k bay was l o c a t e d on trie s t a r b o a r d s i d e of trie a f t e r end of trie main midsriips housings, The s i c k bay containe d an e x c e s s i v e amount of a n t i b i o t i c �S E C R E T - 84GENERAL PANFILOV (Con't) medicines Triere were few instruments and a normal amount of narcotics. Triere appeared to be no operating facilities, 16, Both dry and perishable food stores appeared to be very low and no meat or fish was in evidence as the refrigerating macriinery was not in working order, 17* In a sealed locker were noted several metal cartons, size about 14" x 10" X 12", wriicri were said to contain "bread",riowever,"bread" on translation could probably be interpreted as sriips biscuits, 18, It was notable that emergency rations and other emergency equipment which, would normally be kept in life boats is often found stowed in the most unlikely places in these Russian ships. However, as ho opportunity has presented itself to inspect sriip's life boats, no wortriwriile comment can be made at triis time* 19. A 6 band commercial receiver witri the word MINSK embossed on it was in trie master's cabin. Four bands were noted to be sriort wave, 1 medium wave and 1 for local reception. On commenting on trie receiver trie master stated triat wrien in trie Bering Seariepicked up trie Soutri American stations of Equador and Criile. CAMERAS 20* Five cameras were registered witri trie Customs and Excise Department as follows: Make and serial number of Camera Naime of Owner M. Seriri L. Skogol v. Stefanenkov L. Imakin M. Nijnik Captain Ch. Off, Sailor ir Maeh, ZORKII C 6102291 ZORKII 5496131 ZORKII 5004651 ZORKII IV 5651026 FED 533463 Value $150 150 150 400 190 21, It was notable that neither trie chief officer or the first mate appeared to have many seamanlike qualities. However, trie first mate looked after trie crew's passports and crew members were observed queuing up outside riis cabin preparatory to going asriore. Trie second materiada locked safe in riis cabin wriicririadto be opened by trie captain and was found to be empty. 22, The captain had previously visited Vancouver at least twice and was reasonably cooperative. He said triat sinceriisprevious visit in 1956rieriashad 5 months vacation and rias spent 3 montris at Navigation Scriool* He added triat with, all the new electronic gear it was necessary that masters take a refresrier course in electronics as onriisprevious voyageriewas not acquainted witri trie new electronic equipment onriisvessel, 23, The master added that trie GENERAL PANFILOV would probably go into a 3 month, refit on conclusion of this or trie succeeding voyage at which time trie entire bridge superstructure would be modified. Evaluation: Date: Source: SECRET A-2 November 1957 DNI Ottawa �S E C R E T - 85 U9O 0 D mli t MERCHANT VESSELS MIKHAIL KUTUZOV Trie MIKHAIL KUTUZOV arrived in Vancouver on 22 November 1957 from Vladivostok carrying 800 tons of bunkers, Srie left on 2 December 1957 for trie Vladivostok/Nakriodka area witri 9250 Long tons (345,333/20 busriels)No, 4 wrieat, Criaracteristics of trie vessel are as follows:lo (a) Tonnage (GRT) (b) Port of Registry: (c) Owners: (d) Type (Passenger, Cargo, Passenger/ Cargo, Tanker, Refrigerator) 7176 USSR (MORFLOT) Cargo (ri) Previous name if any: U-U-M-G 1943 Oregon Shipbuilding Corp,, Portland, Oregon, USA 0 CRAHAN TAYLOR 2„ Lengtri (overall): 422„8' 3c Beam: 57.0' 4o (a) (b) Draft loaded, Draft light 0 Forward: 26'03" Forward: 6' 5o (a) SpeedSc (b) RPM (for any or all speeds): Maximum: 13.5 knots Service: 12.5 loaded 76 RPM — 12 knots (a) (b) (c) Type of propulsion: Type fuel: Bunker capacity: (d) Daily consumption of fuel, (e) Fuel Endurance, (e) (f) (g) 6, Signal l e t t e r s : Year b u i l t (completed): Where b u i l t : Aft: Aft: 29'05" l6'6" Triple expansion steam turbine Oil •- Bunker "C" 900 tons (wrien carrying 9300 tons cargo) Maximum speed: 28-30 tons Service speed: 25-27 tons Maximum speed: 3° days Service speed: 36 days 7n Whether fitted for replenishment at sea: As originally fitted - port & starboard side amidships 8, (a) Passenger capacity: (b) Full cargo capacity: (c) If suitable for troop carrying if so, what capacity: Nil 9300 tons 30 additional witriout alterations 45 9-t Number of crew: 10 6 Number of hatches and riolds: 5 11o Number of derricks: Lifting capacity: L2„ Armament: 5 sets Nil 2 jumbo 50 tons �S E C R E T - 86 MIKHAIL KUTUZOV (Con * t) Strengthened for gun platform (Yes or No): No Strengthened for ice (Yes or No): No If fitted with radar equipment (Yes or No); (Describe type and aerial 0 ) Navigation type Russian make- range markings 1^, 5; 15\ 30 miles 0 Neptun aerialo Description of I»T, equipment and aerials: MacKay bank-Russian auto-alarm ship to sriore - small USSR receiver one small stand-by transmitter (Russian) If fitted witri D.F. equipment (Yes or No): (Describe type and aerial)„ If fitted witri Ecrio Sounder (Yes or No): Yes - USSR make Fitted with. Degaussing Gear (Yes or No): (Describe number and location of coils, i c e: whether in the .horizontal, vertical longitudinal or vertical atriwartsriips plane a ) Not known. Fitted with. Paravanes (Yes. or No): No. (a) K-M-F-M (b) (c) (d) Sequence forward to aft of kingposts, masts and funnel: Type of Hull: Type of Bow: Type of Stem: (e) Type of Funnel: if) Number and position of boats: Registered N o 0 Net tonnage: Raked Cruiser Single, broad, capped, black witri red band. 4 midships. M-2006 4380 D;j, sp ] acement t onnage: Dead weight tonnage: Name of Master: Nikolay MIROSHNICHENKO - age 45 Name of Wireless Operator: Chief W/T - Petr SN0P0K 2nd W/T - Nikolay TASHCHAKOV Name of Political Officer: Chief Mate - Vladimir MAHJCHENKO 000779 �SECRET - 87 MIKHAIL KUTUZOV (Con't) GENERAL REMARKS - MICHAEL KUTUZOV iSSpK SPACES, - FORE & , AFT PEAKS 1« Numbers from 1-175 in fives were painted on trie inside of trie bulwarks from stem to stern of the vessel on both sides 0 2„ In trie after accommodation under trie gun platform were 7 boxes o f dry cell batteries eacri in a series of 5o Trie boxes were approximately 14" x 6"0 Trie batteries were rectangular in sriape and appeared to be new 0 30 in use c Trie after accommodation contained 7 spare bunks and mattresses not 4o A large amount of rubber riose was stowed in trie gun platform. In addition, trie following amounts of miscellaneous riose was seen: (a) 200 feet of black rubber riose about 2 " in diameter stowed overriead in trie main deck alleyways, both sides„ (b) Approximately 300 feet of 2_-n diameter black rubber hose located in the steering flat in several pieces, (c) Several pieces of rubber and canvas hose in the usual stowage positions, 5Trie gun platform was used for trie stowage of several 40-gallon drui."iSp mostly empty, contents of remainder not known. In addition, more trian two dozen sriort (4*) wooden oars were also stowed on trie gun platform. Triese oars riad shaped handles and wide blades witri stoppers (rowlocks) about 1 foot from trie end of trie riandlec A similar oar was seen in trie carpenter's shop in trie fore peak 0 6r. Two spare anchors and one spare propeller were carried,, Two jumbo derricks were carried, one aft and one forward. The after' ('T. ons was fitted with double sheave blocks and trie forward one witri quadruple srieaves, 80 Four life boats were carried plus one 14' (approx.) dinghy carried on chocks on trie gun platform. Two of trie life boats were of wooden construction and two were metal with, propellers, MACHINERY SPACES 9o Trie engines and boilers were of standard Liberty type and no modifications were evidento Trie engine room was exceptionally clean* 10r. Trie small watertigrit room forward of trie boiler room wriicri may now be described as housing a Pitometer type log a contained an electric log-speed indicator and other equipment as previously reported,, Trie wall panel was located 000780 �SECRET - 88 _______ KUTUZOV (Con't) on the after bulkhead on trie starboard side andriada plain face, no dials, with copper tubes leading out from it* The room had recently been painted and it appeared that the equipment was not in use. The starboard side bulkhead'of this small room had once had a door or small opening and now was welded in solid. No speed-log indicator was seen on the bridge but one was on the engine room control panel, 11* Trie macriine or work sriOp contained a latrie on a 7' bed with a 7" chuck, a drili press"of average size and several cupboards containing the normal amount Of tools, etc. BRIDGE SPACE 12* wheelriouse: Trie following items of interest were noted in trie criart room and (a) One special bubble type and four vernier type sextants, (b) Trie black cylinder on trie radar set was in place and described by one of trie officers as an "ecrio camera", (c) Binoculars carried included 1 pair of 7 x 50, one pair 6 x 30 and 2 pairs 8 x 30 (almost unusable), (d) Ecrio sounder of Russian make. Trie gyro room was situated opposite trie chief radio operator's cabin 13. and contained the original equipment, 14. The generator room contained 5 motor generators in series, 15* The radar set was made in Russia and was a navigation type with a range of !•_, 5, 15 and 30 miles. 16. The P,A, room contained a tape recorder and record player. 17« The radio room was equipped with a MacKay bank of receivers and transmitters, Russian auto-alarm, ship to shore telephone and one standby transmitter (Russian), also one small Russian receiver similar to a model 38 Halicrafter set. 18. Layout of radio room is as follows: MacKay Sets Standby Transmitter marked "XMTR" Ship to Shore Phone USSR Receiver -Auto alarm Battery Room P A Room / 000781 �S E C R E T - 89 MIKHAIL KUTUZOV (Con't) CAMERAS Ten cameras were registered with, trie Customs & Excise Department 19. as follows: Name of Owner Nikolay KDRSHUNOV Ivan ABRAMDV Viktor SAM30N0V Petr SNOPOK Anatoly KHOHUUA Alfred ROGAJINSKY Kamza ABISHEV Sergey KDSMINSKY Jury SOBOLEV Vladimir RUSAH3V 2nd engr, 2nd mate 3rd engr. Chief W/T electrician saiior machinist sailor machinist sailor Make & Serial No # Value ZORKY 5527018 FED 386146 ZORKY-5 56093514 SMENA 175800 FED-2 170818 ZORKY-5 56092019 ZORKY 6095260 ZORKY 201153 ZORKY-5 56079787 ZORKY-5 56039472 705 Roubles 700 n 750 w 140 n 700 750 755 700 780 750 tt tt rt tt it tt CREW'S QUARTERS 20. sheets. Trie c r e w ' s q u a r t e r s were v e r y c l e a n witri w e l l made bunks, i n c l u d i n g 21* In one of trie 4-hertri cabins many books of instruction were seen, mostly on nautical subjects. The occupants were described as students - their average age was 24, Two naval seaman's uniforms were seen in this cabin, 22, Camera equipment included one 8 mm projector with a large supply of films. One enlarger and three sets of developing equipment were in evidence, also several priotograpris of Vancouverriarbourand surroundings wriicririadbeen taken recently, 23, Food stores were almost empty, Triere was very little meat or fisri and dry stores contained some brown flour and rice, 24, and paint. Trie CO^room was empty except for some tools, miscellaneous spares Very few fire extinguishers were seen, 25, There was a normal amount of Arctic clotriing including Criinese quilted typerieavywear and srieepsktn coats, 26, The Second mate's cabin was located on the main deck in the crew's quarters. His cabin was witriout interest except for an expensive table-type radi0-prionograpri, Details of Fittings to Undertake Fuelling at Sea 27, No fittings were observed of any significance;riowever,on trie gun platform covered witri canvas was a large amount of 4" corrugated black rubber riose. The pile was approximately 4 feetriigriandriada diameter of 6"feet, and is estimated to contain 300 feet of hose which appeared to be in two pieces. Two blanked off ends were seen as sketched below. Dirty black heavy oil was in evidence in these "blanks. �SECRET - 9« - MIKHAIL KUTUZOV (Con't) Bolt Blank Stopper h o s e Boit y 1, 4 Indications of Hull Strengthening for operations in Arctic waters 28, No hull strengthening was observed. Back Details of Voyages 29« The vessel registered as departing Varnia, Bulgaria, 1 July 1957 bound for Bombay, thence to Vladivostok arriving triere about 1 October 1957, 30* It was observed from trie crew manifest triat several crew members joined trie vessel at Korsakov (Otomari) on 20 October 1957, indicating triat trie vessel mayriavevisited triat port before proceeding to Petropavlosk where it registered as clearing November 10th for Vancouver, B.C. Any Indication of Crew Members having served witri Soviet Navy 31* Triere was no indication of any crew members .having served with trie Soviet Navy, 32. Trie naval seaman's uniforms seen in one of trie cabins are believed to be Merchant Navy cadet uniforms. General Impression of Ship & Crew 33* Trie master was very cooperative and riad a good command of Englisri, He wore trie insignia of Captain First Class onriisrigrit'top pocket. His cabin was well appointed and contained a 5-band domestic radio. The master had been in Vancouver previously, 34* The First Mate's cabin was well stocked with volumes of Marx and Engels, plus other books ori political science. His English was poor andrieriad an unseamanlike appearance, 35* Whilst in Vancouver trie vessel made considerable purcriases of liquor. It was said triat triere are no restrictions or duty payable on landing triis liquor in Russia, Evaluati on: A-2 Date: November 1957 Scource: SECRET DNI Ottawa 000783 �- 91 - S E C R E T U.S.SiR* MEROHANT VESSELS NOVQROSSISK TJie NOVQROSSISK arrived in Vancouver on 4 December 1957 from VLADIVOSTOK carrying 900 tons bunkers. She left on 11"December 1957 for the Vladivostok/Nakriodka area witri 9350 long tons of wheat, GENERAL REMARKS - NOVQROSSISK DECK SPACES 1 .. 1 1 1,. The following amounts of hose were observed on the deck, (a) (b) (c) (d) 35 feet of 5-6" diameter hose 60 feet of 3|-4|" diameter hose 50 feet of 4" diameter hose 180 feet of 2" diameter hose 2. The ship carried an excessive number of steel and wooden blocks stored in upper deck locker space, 3,. The life boats did not appear to have been used recently. an 18 ft* dinghy aft. 4,. Two spare blades and one solid propeller were noted. carried a good supply of cordage and wire rope, - There was The vessel also BRIDGE SPACES 5* Standard equipment was carried and no change from the previous report except that one new bubble-type sextant was seen, 6, Trie radio cabin contained one all-wave domestic receiver and one sriort wave receiver, plus one small broadcasting set, all made in trie USSR, 7* . Trie radar was of Russian make dated 1953 with, the usual /Omark, ' ENGINE ROOM 8, Trie small recessed room is now described as riaving two rotary type cables about 3/8" thick coming out of the centre of the installation and leading to the deckhead, . CREW SPACES 9. Two navy uniforms, one P.O. type and one seaman's, were seen amongst personal effects in trie crew's quarters. Two medals were found in the suitcase whicri contained trie P.O's uniform, Wrien triis suitcase was being inspected, in trie presence of trie friendly 3rd mate, a seaman came into trie cabin and spoke angrily to trie 3rd mate. It appeared triat trie suitcase was riis and rie was objecting. Of interest is trie fact triat one of trie medals was described as identical to trie single medal worn �S E C R E T - 92 - NOVQROSSISK (Con't) by trie late Josepri Stalin, Trie impression was given triat trie seaman was angry triat trie 3rd mate sriould be in a position of seeing trie seaman's private effects, 10, It was noted triat trie 3rd mate,riadvery little knowledge of trie ship or its equipment, 11, Sriip's stores were below normal with, trie exception of a larger amount of meat trian is usual - mostly venison, 12, A world map in the crew's quarters indicated that this vessel had recently voyaged from Vladivostok to Tiksi and return. Track lines of the voyages were seen on the map, CAMERAS: 13* Department: Trie following cameras were registered witri the Customs & Excise Name of Owner Make and serial number of camera Value V, V, V, V, A. V, I, ZORKY-3 1380 Radinsky Egorov Ivanov Bauman Lisikhin Urvantsev Mulivanov Captain Sailor Nav, Elec, Chief w/T Sailor Sailor Fireman it it tt tt tt tt 5635975 5504303 5629955 5627447 57078717 55153864 602338I 38O 380 380 380 250 250 GENERAL IMPRESSIONS OF SHIP AND CREW 14* Few crew crianges were noted. Trie woman doctor was trie same as on the previous visit to Vancouver in October 1957, however, of trie four women seamen, three were new, 15, Trie average seaman appeared to be inriisearly thirties, somewhat older than usual. Trie attitude of trie crew was less friendly than hitrierto and two seamen were described as being noticeable unfriendly,riowever,trie Captain was pleasant and spoke Englisri well, 16. It was noted triat wrien trie Canadian officials came aboard a bell button was pressed by trie Quartermaster that sounded loudly in several positions trirougriout trie ship. This bell was also pressed when others came aboard. 17, On arrival at Vancouver the master asked the ship's agent numerous questions pertaining to the loading of the vessel. It was evident that all questions had been dictated to him by USSR port officials. Questions included queries about cheaper and quicker methods of loading Russian vessels. 000785 �S E C R E T - 93 NOVQROSSISK (Con't) 18, There have been no known infractions of regulations by Russian masters. They appear quite reconciled when told the vessels have to be loaded to Canadian port specifications or are shown that other means of loading (by sacks) is more expensive, 19. 190 tons of oil was transferred from the NOVQROSSISK to trie Russian vessel DJURMA in Vancouveron 4-5 December, Trie USSR Embassy official, MT, V.A. Selivanov, was said to be extremely pleased triat triis was allowed by port autriorities. Trie oil transfer was witriout incident and local oil barge equipment was used. Evaluation: A-2 Date: December 1957 Source: DNI Ottawa S E C R E T 000786 �SECRET - 94 - . U.S.S.B. MERCHANT VESSELS ODESSA Trie ODESSA arrived in Vancover on 10 December 1957 from Vladivostok carrying 967 Bunker "C". She left on 21 December 1957 for the Vladivostok/Nakhodka area witri 9100 Long Tons of wheat. Characteristics of the vessel' are as fellows: 1, Name: ODESSA 2, USSR Flag: 3, Gross Tonnage: 4, Port: 7176,49 Vladivostok 5, Origin of Voyage: Providenyia Bay 6, last Port of Call: Vancouver, B.C. 7, Next Port of Call: Vladivostok/Nakriodka Area 8, Ultimate Destination: 9, Name of Master: Viadivostok/Nakhodka Area Aleksey PALEHA, Age 55 10. Name of Wireless Operator: 11. Name of Political Officer: Leonid KRIJAN0V5KY, Criief W/T Boris DYAKDV W/T Opp. Kiril GAVRILOV, 1st Mate or Anatoly POEEHUN, 2 nd Mate. 12. Number of Crew: 41 13. Date of Arrival: 10 December, 1957 at 1730Z 14. Date of Departure: 21 December, 1957 at 0300Z 15. Draft on Arrival: 16. Draft on Departure: 17. Bunkers on Board on Arrival: 18. Supplied witri: 19. Passengers: 20. Cargo: 7' 6" For'd 18' Aft. 27' 6" For'd 28' 3" Aft. 967 Bunker "C" Nil Nil 9100 Long Tons. (Wheat) 000787 �SECRET 95 ODESSA (Con't) GENERAL REMARKS - ODESSA FORE PEAK _ AFTER PEAK 1, On trie gun p l a t f o r m was c o n s t r u c t e d a 4 x 6 ' p l a t f o r m w i t h a 4" s o l i d s t e e l t h r e a d e d p i p e 3 ' high, mounted i n t h e c e n t r e . Beside t h i s p l a t f o r m was a riatcri f u l l of wiping r a g s . Two round p l a t f o r m s 12* a c r o s s were a l s o l o c a t e d on trie gun p l a t f o r m (see s k e t c r i ) . These p l a t f o r m s were no doubt used for coiling rope. Round Platforms 12' across 4 x 6 ' platform 3 1 solid steel pipe Hatch full of wiping rags 2. I n t h e f o r e peak were 4 Jacobs l a d d e r s , t h r e e of which, were new. There were 2 s p a r e p r o p e l l e r b l a d e s and one s p a r e c o n e . No s o l i d p r o p e l l e r was v i s i b l e and i t i s t h e r e f o r e assumed t h a t trie p r o p e l l e r i n use was a changeable o n e , Triere were numerous sand boxes and riand pumps. 3. Three g r a p p l i n g riooks were s t o r e d i n trie forward peak, riave n o t been seen on o trier USSR v e s s e l s . These BRIDGE 4. F u r t h e r t o trie p r e v i o u s r e p o r t on trie ODESSA, i t was observed t h a t trie PA system, t a p e r e c o r d e r and r a d i o r e c e i v e r could be coupled i n numerous ways f o r use i n r e c o r d i n g messages i n p i c k i n g up and l a t e r r e p l a y i n g triem over trie PA system or trie o r i g i n a l loud s p e a k e r . 5. A l a r g e s t r e a m l i n e d copper c y l i n d e r 4-4§-' i n longtri and 1 | - 1 _ " i n d i a m e t e r was observed i n one of trie o f f i c e r ' s c a b i n s (see s k e t c r i ) . I t i s not known t o what use t h i s c y l i n d e r i s p u t . KlAig C y l i n d e r 4 - 4 g ' long Opening 000788 �S E C R E T - 96 ODESSA (Con't) 6, T r i e ' v e s s e l c a r r i e d a new t y p e bubble s e x t a n t as d e s c r i b e d i n trie BAKU r e p o r t . Triis s e x t a n t i s not s i m i l a r t o trie American bubble sextant, ENGINE ROOM 7, I t rias been e s t a b l i s r i e d triat i n a l l p r o b a b i l i t y trie room tria t e x i s t s on trie s t a r b o a r d s i d e forward of trie engine room c o n t a i n s equipment r e l a t i v e t o trie s p e e d - d i s t a n c e I n d i c a t o r . 8, The s h i p c a r r i e d s e v e r a l s p o r t i n g guns and r i f l e s on b o a r d . I t was observed t h a t trie e l e c t r i c i a n made up a l l trie sriot and kept trie powder and p e l l e t s i n s e p a r a t e compartments, CREW'S QUARTERS 9, Four s t u d e n t s occupied one c a b i n and were seen studying* Numerous a l g e b r a and n a v i g a t i o n books were i n e v i d e n c e . Trie Customs p a r t y came upon Mr, S e l i v a n o v , trie Russian Embassy O f f i c i a l , l e c t u r i n g t o triese s t u d e n t s and i t was obvious triat rie would not riave been doing t r i i s riad rie known trie Customs p a r t y were aboard trie v e s s e l a t trie t i m e , Photograpriic equipment, an abundant supply of developing p a p e r and a l a r g e priotograpri of trie sriip were a l s o seen i n t r i i s c a b i n , 10, Books on atomic warfare i n c l u d i n g i n s t r u c t i o n s f o r c i v i l deferice were observed i n trie above-mentioned cabin and a l s o i n numerous otrier c a b i n s . Triere was a l s o a sketch, of a p e r s o n o u t f i t t e d i n r u b b e r c l o t h i n g . 11, The s h i p ' s l i b r a r y was stocke d with, many p o l i t i c a l b o o k s . A l a r g e map of trie Nortriern sea r o u t e and one of I n d i a witri riiany n o t a t i o n s were a l s o seen i n trie l i b r a r y . I t was not p o s s i b l e t o note trie p o r t s of c a l l a l o n g trie Nortriern r o u t e . 12, I n one of trie o f f i c e r ' s cabin s a 12" g l a s s t u b e boused i n a wooden tube c a s i n g was n o t e d , Triis tube riad a p l u g i n trie end and r e sembled a triermometer a s trie l i q u i d , i n i t appeared t o be s t a t i o n a r y , 13, The s r i i p ' s s t o r e s riad a l a r g e q u a n t i t y of w i n t e r c l o t r i i ng and p e r s o n a l c l o t r i i n g wriicri riad been purchased i n Vancouver on trie p r e v i o u s t r i p was a l s o i n e v i d e n c e . 14, The sriip c a r r i e d a good supply of food and a l a r g e q u a n t i t y of venison was n o t e d . 15, One crew member riad a priotograpri of trie ship surrounded by i c e and i t was e v i d e n t triat t h e priotograpri riad been t a k e n from an a i r c r a f t , p r o b a b l y a s p o t t e r p l a n e used t o d i r e c t s h i p s through, t h e i c e f l o w , 16, One crew member had a peaked cap witri triin w h i t e r i b b i n g around trie crown and an 1/8" wriite band around trie o u t s i d e of trie bottom b a n d . I t i s not known i f t r i i s cap was r e g i m e n t a l i s s u e . �S E C R E T - 97 ODESSA (Con't) 17. When trie boarding party boarded trie vessel it was noted triat Mr. Selivanov, trie Russian Embassy Official, greeted and sriookriandswitri trie first mate but seemed to ignore trie remainder of trie officers. 18. The vessel carried 5 uew crew members on this voyage, CAMERAS 19. Eight cameras were registered witri trie Customs & Excise Department as follows: Name of Owner Serial No. of Camera Value V. A. A, M. E. I. N, I. N N N N N N N N 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 Maliar Poleriin Sadovicri Baranov Smirnov Ivanov Averin Gribunin 57066255 91112 215796 672984 2681687 560143 X 571364 12 560124 }CI GENERAL 20. Trie ODESSA riad 967 tons of bunkers on board on a r r i v a l at Vancouver on 10 December 1957, Empire Shipping Co. agent advised t h a t on numerous accasions i t rias been ascertained triat trie amount of bunkers on board r e g i s t e r ed by sriips' masters was incorrect and varies as much as 100 t o n s . However, trie amount for triis vessel is no doubt correct as i t was not given in round f i g u r e s , 21. I t i s believed triat trie vessel discriarged rier previous cargo at Nakhodka, picked up a general cargo and proceeded t o Petropavlosk, The vessel r e g i s t e r e d as departing Petropavlosk at 1200 28 November, The riiaster stated that vessels departing Petropavlosk are not in possession of clearance c e r t i f i c a t e s as no issuing officer e x i s t s in t h a t p o r t , riowever, triere are clearance officers at Vladivostok and Nakriodka, Evaluation: Date: Source: A-2 December, 1957 DNI Ottawa SECRET �SECRET - 98 U.S.S.R. MERCHANT VESSELS PSKOV Trie PSKOV arrived in Vandouver on 14 November 1957 from Leningrad carrying 775 tons of bunlcers, Srie left on November 1957 for trie Vladivostok/ Nakriodka area witri 9250 long tons of wheat. Characteristics of the vessel are as follows:1, (a) Tonnage (GRT) (b) Port of Registry: (c) Owners: (d) Type (Passenger, Cargo, Passenger/ Cargo, Tanker, Refrigerator) (e) Signal letters: (f) Year built (completed): (g) Where built: (h) Previous name if any: 7176.49 LENINGRAD USSR (MORFLOT) Cargo (Liberty Class) U-V-M-V 1943 Portland, Oregon, USA (Oregon Ship Building Corporation) George L, Shoup 2, Lengtri (overall): 3, Beam: 4, (a) (b) Draft loaded, Draft ligrit, Forward: 26' 3" Forward: 5* 11" 5, (a) Speeds, Maximum: lOiknots Service: 1C% knots (b) RPM (for any or all speeds): (a) (b) (c) Type of propulsion: Type fuel: Bunker capacity: (d) Daily consumption of fuel, (e) Fuel Endurance, 6, 422' 8" Aft: 28' 10" Aft: 16' 6" Steam Bunker "C" Not in excess of 1000 tons £f' 10,000 tons cargo carried. Maximum speed: Approx 28/30 tons Service speed: " 25 tons Maximum speed: N.K, Service speed: N.K. 7, Wh.eth.er fitted for replenishment at sea: As originally fitted. 8, (a) Passenger capacity: (b) Full cargo capacity: (c) If suitable for troop carrying, if so, wriat capacity: In space allocated for personnel not in excess of forty (40) in addition to the crew. Not in excess of 10,000 tons with 1000 tons bunkers. Not in quarters provided for the crew however all holds between decks could be used if troops provided own bedding. 9, 10, Number of crew: 40 Number ofriatcriesand holds: 5 �SECRET - 99 PSKOV (Con't) Number of derricks: 5 Lifting capacity: 5 ton (SWL) Cargo Booms 20 tori After Jumbo 50 ton for'd Jumbo* .armament: No. Strengthened for gun platform (Yes or No): As originally constructed after gun platform. Strengthened for ice (Yes or No): Numerous patcries crudely affixed. If fitted with radar equipment (Yes or No): (Describe type and aerial.) Radar of Russian Manufacture Neptun Aerial, Description of W.T, equipment and aerials: Mackay as Originally fitted. If fitted with D.F, equipment (Yes or No): (Describe type and aerial) DF of Russian Manufacture. If fitted witri Ecrio Sounder (Yes or No): Original fatriometer. Fitted witri Degaussing Gear (Yes or No): (Describe number and location of coils, ie: whether in the horizontal, vertical longitudinal or vertical atriwartsriips plane.) Coils were carried on trie magnetic compass. Fitted witri Paravanes (Yes or No): (a) Sequence forward to aft, of kingposts, masts and funnel: (b) Type of Hull: (c) Type of Bow: (d) Type of Stem: (e) Type of Funnel: (g) Remarks as to unusual features: K/M/F/M Welded-Riveted Original Bow (Raked) Cruiser Single vertical capped.funnel, painted red 2' wide band on black funnel; gold paintedriammerand sickle in relief on both sides. Four (4) - #1 & 3 Port Side - #2 & 4 Starboard Side, None externally visible, Registered No, M-11944 Net tonnage: 4234.74 Displacement tonnage: N.K. Dead weigrit tonnage: 10,39* tons (f) Number and position of boats: �SECRET - 100 PSKOV 26, (Con't ) BALAKIN, Nikolai Name of fester: Age 31. 27, Name of Wireless Operator: SELJAKDV, Alexei CH/WT, BAIKDV, Evgeny W/T, KNIAZEV, Vitaly W/T (Pupil), It is probable triat as triis sriip just transitted the Northern Route hence 3 operators, 28, KAIPOV, Vladimir. Name of Political Officer: GENERAL REMARKS - PSKOV DECK SPACES - FORE & AFT PEAKS 1, The condition of the deck was fair and the running gear in good condition. Two spare anchors and one spare propeller was rioused aft. Trie propeller was of cast steel, 2, It was of interest to note triat triis vessel contained tank space running trie entire length, of #1, 2 and 3 holds. The depth of this tank, whicri extended from side to side of trie sriip, was approximately 10 feet and was located over trie double bottom tanks. Trie tank tops are solidriatcriesremovable in one piece by trie ship's derricks. Trie tank was known to be clean. Standard water and oil connections were observed an nothing unusual 3. was in evidence, 4, On trie port side of trie fore deck located centrally between trie bridge and trie fore peak was a 4 chock cradle welded to the deck (see sketcri). Trie lengtri between trie 4 chocks was approximately 50 feet and a tail block existed several feet aft, of the fourth chock. The contruction of the cradle was metal and the chocks were topped with wood. It is estimated that a vessel with a length of approximately 60 feet had rested in this creadle and would appear toriavebeen ofriardchine construction. Wood buffers 8" thick on each cradle ..8'.. (Ford) ..8'.. ..8'.. Tail Block 0, It was observed that a similar cradle had"existed on trie starboard side as trie welding marks were still visible on trie deck. �SECRET - Itl PSKOV (Con't) 6. There were extra steel uprights in the tween deck to support trie deck on botri starboard and port side. STEERING FIAT 7. In trie steering flat a jury rig was attached to the rudder quadrant. It is believed that triis rig was not for emergency steering but more as a compensation for a loose rudder. Trie rig was so constructed triat once trie rudder position moved away from amidsriips, a system of weigrits wouldrioldtrie rudder over to port or starboard to its full extent. The stern post lignum vitae bearings were seen to be considerably worn. 8. The four life boats were standard and appeared not to have been in recent use, nor did the l6' dinghy whicri was carried aft, 9. Trie accommodation under trie gun platform contained several spare bunks and matresses in fair condition but with, no evidence of recent use. 10,' The null wasrieavilypatcried along trie sides. Trie patcries were crudely welded on with, trie largest being 5' in diameter, 11, No extra bracing or strengtriening was observed in either trie forward or after peaks, 12, An unusual bulbous projection was seen on trie stem just below trie waterline wrien trie vessel was riding light (see sketch). \ Water Line BRIDGE HOUSE 13, Trie usual summer wrieelriouse and criart room were located in trie upper bridge position, 14* Trie summerriousecontained course recorder, fathometer,'Loran receiver (USSR make), radar repeater, gyro repeater and rudder indicator, 15. The chart room just abaft of the wheelriouse contained 3 pairs of 4noculars (2 pair 7 X 50, 1 pair 15 x 50), Russian criarts corrected to date and one aneroid barometer. �SECRET - 102 PSKOV (Con't) 16, Two gyro repeaters wero located on trie wings of the upper bridge position and a 20" searchlight, Pelorus was mounted on trie bridge wings. 17, Trie main wheelhouse below contained two smoke indicators, Russian type RDF, rudder indicator but no shaft indicator, A signal log and two Walker logs were found stowed in trie wrieelhouse. 18, The main chart room contained a radar (USSR make) and two chronometers. 19, A speed and distance recorder was observed in the master's cabin which, was similar to the Pitometer log Type D. A gyro repeater was also noted, 20, compass, It was observed that degaussing coils were carried on trie magnetic 21, ceiver, Trie gyro room contained sriip's PA system and an automatic radio re- 22, Trie radar set was of Russian manufacture stamped 1956 andriada 12" x 14" screen plus cone, Triere were 4 range scales - 1-|, 2^, 15 and 30 miles. Trie set is located portside forward in trie main criart room and rias an overall size of 42" x 48". 23, Trie radio section was made up of two rooms, one for transmitting and one for receiving. Trie equipment was a combination of American and Russian units such, as reported on^ the ALEXANDER NEVSKY, ENGINE ROOM - MACHINE SHOP 24* Both the engine and boiler rooms were clean and nothing of importance nor anything beyond standard equipment was observed, 25, The engine room communication equipment appeared to be standard and there were less spare parts in evidence than normally seen, 26, The main gyro room Is- located amidships by the main engine room door. This room contained several boxes of brand new tools, made in USSR, which appeared to be in excess of trie normal tool requirement for gyro equipment, 27, The machine shop contained a U.S, latrie with 6-7* bed and 7" chuck, a grinder and drill press. In addition there was a metal planer on a plate bed approximately 6' x 3|-'« Such a tool has not been observed previously in vessels of this type. This machine, which, was stamped SH0B0, was unusual and made for heavy duty repairs. It consisted of planers and a sprocket type cutting blade, CREW'S ACCOMODATION 28, Cabins were clean and austere. There was considerable evidence of clothing recently bought by trie crew in Vancouver - trie preference being blue serge suits. Many books of instruction were in evidence, 29, A considerable amount of Arctic clotriing was stowed in lockers plus more trian 60rieavycanvas work jackets. �SECRET • - 103 PSKOV (Con't) 30, Food stores were in normal supply with the exception of meat. A surplus of butter and potatoes was noted. 31. There were 14 cameras aboard the ship and more amateur photograpriic equipment trian is normal. This equipment includes enlargers and developing facilities. One priotograpri of trie sriip apparently stuck in an ice flow was seen, A camera projection room is in a small space next to trie saloon and trie saloon is used as a viewing room. Details of Fittings to Undertake Fuelling at Sea 32, Trie vessel appeared to carry only trie normal Liberty sriip type and number of fittings for fuelling at sea. Indications of Hull Strengthening for Operations in Arctic Waters 33» Itriasbeen confirmed triat trie vessel transitted through ice and trie master stated triat his ship was the only ship making the trip and was accompanied by three ice breakers, 34* It was noted that there was deck strengthening'to support the rieavy cargo carried on it but no hull strengthening was in evidence, lack details of Voyages, Particularly Ports of Departure for Vancouver and Any Deviations from Inbound or Outbound Routes 35, It was noted that the vessel was surveyed on 27 April 1957 at Dairen (Dalny) China, From there trie vessel proceeded to Tsingtao, China, Szczecin and trien to Leningrad, » 36, Trie vessel departed Leningrad approximately 6 August for Provideniya via trio nortriern sea route. 37, Trie PSKOV left Provideniya on 5 November and averaged 10_ knots to Vancouver, arriving 14 November 1957 at 2300Z, 38, Trie vessel loaded wrieat in Vancouver and departed at 0030Z 28 November at 11 knots for Vladivostok - ETA Vladivostok 15 December. Any Indication of Crew Members Having served witri Soviet Navy 39* Trie Third Officer took an unusual number of fixes whilst off the B.C. coast and the general attitude of triis officer would indicate triatrieriad some Naval background. General Impression of Sriip 6c Crew 40, Trie master was talkative and pleasant. His home is in Leningrad and he is married with 2 children, a boy and a girl. He remarked that he had �SEC RET - 104 PSKOV (Con't) relieved the previous captain on short notice. He understood the previous captain riad become sick owing to his dislike of the nortriern sea route. Trie master started his seagoing career at the age of 20 in 1948 at Leningrad and after a short period of time at a nautical school he was appointed third officer in 1949» second officer in 1950 and captain in 1953* H e is 31 years of age and is reputed to be one' of trie youngest merchant captains in trie USSR, 41. The First Officer kept the passports. He spoke English well as did the Second Officer and trie Chief Radio Operator, 42, The vessel carried 3 wireless operators - Chief Operator, W/T Operator and a pupil. It is probable'that ships transitting the northern sea route carry an additional wireless operator. Evaluation: A-2 Date: November 57 Source: DNI Ottawa S E C R E T 000797 �S E C R E T - 1*5 U.S.S.R. MERCHANT VESSELS STALINGRAD The STALINGRAD arrived in Vancouver on 13 November 1957 from Vladivostok carrying 900 tons of bunkers. She left on 23 November 1957 for the Vladivostok/Nakhodka area witri ' 9,000 long tons wheat. Characteristics of the vessel are as follows: 1, , (a) (b) (c) (d) Tonnage (GRT) Port of Registry: Owners: Type (Passenger, Cargo, Passenger/ Cargo, Tanker, Refrigerator) (e) Signal letters: (f) Year built (completed): (g) Where built: (h) Previous name if any: 7216,32 tons VLADIVOSTOK USSR Cargo (Liberty Type) U-U-K-X 1944 Richmond, California, USA Permanente (Shipyard #2) THOMAS F. FLAHERTY 2, Length (overall): 422,8' 3, Beam: 57.0' 4, (a) (b) 5, (a) Speeds. (b) 6, Forward: 27» 10" Forward: V Draft loaded, Draft light, Aft: 28' 0" Aft: 16' 5" Maximum: 15 Service: 13 RPM (for any or all speeds): (a) Type of propulsion: (b) Type fuel: (c) Bunker capacity: (d) Daily consumption of f u e l , (e) Fuel Endurance, Steam Turbine 3 Cylinder Bunker C Not in excess of 1000 long tons if 9000 long tons cargo carried. Maximum speed: 15 K - 30 tons Service speed: 12 K - 25 tons Maximum speed: Service speea: 7, Whetrier f i t t e d for replenishment a t sea: Standard - as,orainarily fitted. 8, (a) Passenger capacity: (b) F u l l cargo capacity: (c) If suitable for troop carrying, if so, what capacity: Not in excess of 30 without alterations, Approx, 9,200 tons if 1,000 tons fuel carried. Only 30 - 40 without alterations. 9, Number of crew: 45 10, Number of hatches and holds: 5 11, Number of derricks: Lifting capacity: 5 ton (SWL) 50 ton jumbo (SWL) 5 sets �SECRET - 106 STALINGRAD (Con't ) Nil 12, Armament: 13. Strengthened for gun platform (Yes or No): No - only after platform as originally fitted. 14. Strengthened for ice (Yes or No): No. 15, If fitted with radar equipment (Yes or No) Russian Manufacture - Neptun (Describe type and aerial,) Antenna Radar not observed. 9" screen repeater on monkey island (Manufactured 1951)* 16, Description of W.T. equipment and aerials: Original equipment plus 1 small transmitter of Russian manufacture (size 18" x 14" x 10"). 17, If fitted with D.F,-equipment (Yes or No): Original, (Describe type and aerial.) 18, If fitted with Ecrio Sounder (Yes or No): Yes - original. 19. Fitted with. Degaussing Gear (Yes or No): (Describe number and location of coils, ie: whether in the horizontal, vertical longitudinal or vertical athwartships plane,) Original degaussing equipment in good shape. 20, Fitted with Paravanes (Yes or No): No. 21. (a) Sequence forward to aft. of Kingposts,K-M-F-M masts and funnel: (b) Type of Hull: Liberty - welded Original raked (c) Type of Bow: Cruiser (d) Type of Stem, Single (Broad) Vertical, capped, (e) Type of Funnel: 2' red band on black funnel Hammer & Sickle in relief both sides, 4 - #1 & 3 Portside (f) Number and position of boats: - #2 & 4 Starside Externally none visible, (g) Remarks as to unusual features: 22, Registered No, 11741. 23, Net tonnage: 4382.83 24, Displacement tonnage: 25* Dead weigrit tonnage: 26. Name of Master: Ivan Muhin - Age 43 27. Audrey Chimiritsa Anatoly Shatalov Name of Wireless Operator: 28. Name of Political Officer: ANTON MATVEYEV, age 25, although very young he seems'to carry considerable authority. 000799 �SECRET - 107 STALINGRAD (Con't) GENERAL REMARKS - STALINGRAD DECK SPACES - FORE & AFT, PEAKS 1, The condition of the deck was satisfactory and clean. There were no unusual features and oil fuel connections were in the usual places as in the other Russian vessels. 2, A considerable amount of rubber hose was observed including 40 feet of 3" hose attached to the deckriead amidsriips starboard side and several 18 feet lengtris of 3"rioseand couplings aft. A small red painted hand pump was observed in the forecastle, 3* A spare propeller was carried with torpedo end and bolted blades. iin additional blade and one 18" diameter drive shaft with, universal straigrit joint was observed stored on trie after aeck, ENGINE ROOM - BOILER ROOM - MACHINE SHOP 4* Trie engine room, boiler room and macriine sriop appeared to be quite normal and in very clean condition. The equipment and machinery was standard for a Liberty type ship with the exception'of a planking partition wriich lay between the engine room and the machine shop, 5. There was an "Iron Man" latrie in trie machine shop of normal size; the bed being about 6' and the latrieriada 6" chuck, BRIDGE 6, The wheelhouse was normal for a ship of this type except that one instrument was reported as an'electric log indicator. The log was reported to be mounted on the keel amidships. 7, The Radio Roomriadtrie original MacKay receiving set plus one small Russian type transmitter, 8, Trie Radar Room in triis vessel was not observed, A radar repeater witri a 9" screen was located in trie upper wrieelriouse- date stamped 1951* 9* Chart Room equipment included 3 original type sextants plus one new sextant of extreme design identical to the one described in the BAKU report. Four pairs of 6x30 and two pairs of 7x50 binoculars were observed, 10, There was also a unique thermometer in trie Chart room' (see sketch). This was a portable item and its function is not clear at this time. Centigrade gauges Small fan inside Trade mark "MC" Plastic key 000800 �SECRET - 108 STALINGRAD (Con't) CAMERAS 11, Four cameras were possessed by crew members. One wriicri belonged to trie Second Engineer was a veryriigriquality with a KIEV 1,2 lens and had an estimated retail value of between l500-$600. Camera list is as follows: Name of Owner Make of Camera V, Smiruov (find Engr.) KWEFF Lens 5703923 5719321 $500 N, Kbrban (Seaman) ZOBKU Lens 56017154 6023725 $175 N, Forban (Seaman) M0CKS0 4 Lens 5628155 5629464 $100 A, Kulchitslay (Macriinist) FED 2 Lens 324250 031759 $175 Serial No, Value CREW'S QUARTERS 12, No extra accomodation beyond that required for trie crew was in evidence witri trie exception of 16 knockdown type beds located in trie cabin under trie gun platform aft, Triis cabin appeared not to be in use and the few mattresses there were were in foul condition, 13, There was nothing of an unusual nature noted in trie crew's quarters except possibly triat several priotographs of Stalin were in evidence, 14, It was noted that the First Officer's cabin contained many books of political economy and similar subjects. It was triougrit triat triis officer was not a true seaman. 15, Triere were 4 women stewardesses aboard trie sriip. 16, It was noted that the Bosun had a single cabin and he kept keys to all store rooms, 17, Trie sick bay contained a considerable amount of new medical equipment and clean bed linen, A 400 watt wall light was observed and it would appear triat facilities existed for an operating table. Up to 100 vials were noted each, filled with a triin clear liquid and numerous hypo needles were observed, STORES 18, Store Rooms in general contained nothing of importance with the exception of about 120 ground sheets all new and made of heavy wool on one side backed up by rubber on the otrier, Triese were observed in trie Bosun's stores. 19. Food supplies appeared to be low on both, meat and vegetables* 2d, Winter clotriing supplies were average* �S E C R E T - 109 STALINGRAD (Con't) 21. In the cabin in the after gun platform 3 packing cases were noted, approximately 4' x 3' x 1^'. dimension and very heavy, contents unknown. In the same space a lg- HP new electric motor was observed with a special drive attachment. Details of Fittings to Undertake Fuelling at Sea 22. This vessel appeared to carry only the normal Liberty ship type and number of fittings to undertake fuelling at sea. Indications of Hull Strengthening for Operations in Arctic Waters 23. There was evidence triat triis vessel riad suffered superficial bull damage but there was no indication of hull strengthening for operations in Arctic waters. Back Details of Voyages, particularly ports of departure for Vancouver and any deviations from Inbound or Outbound routes 24* The vessel on arrival at Vancouver, B.C., at 9099z 13 November'1957, gave its port of departure as Korsakov (Otomari) 46-40 N, 142-45 E. However, an extensive inquiry failed to reveal the date of departure from Korsakov, but it is believed to be about 25 October. Any Indication of Crew Members Having Served with Soviet Navy 25. The Second Officer appeared to be of somewhat different calibre to the other crew raembers and it is possible thatrieriasserved with, trie Russian Navy, General Impressions of Ship and Crew 26,_ The ship was clean and efficient and it was noted triat a good relationship existed between trie officers and men, 27« Since trie STALINGRAD'S visit to Vancouver last year, trie Master and Cnief Officer riave changed. Trie Chief Officer was previously Second Officer aboard trie MIKLUKHO MAKLAY, 28, The Master spoke good English and related that he had towed the BAKU at 4-5 knots in bad weather and up to 13 knots in good weatrier, Triis tww approximated 780 miles from trie time trie BAKU lostrier.propeller until taken inriandby tugs in trie Juan de Fuca Strait* 29* Trie Master, stated triat after triis trip rie has planned to take up an appointment as pilot in Vladivostok, He stated triat pilots in that port work 24 hours and trien stand off 4 days. Pay for pilots is the same as for the master of a merchant snip, 30, The Chief Officer spoke English fluently and lives in Vladivostok, He related that during July, August and September twenty Russian freighters had been"lostu in the ice fields in the northern route. He added that trie STALINGRAD 000802 �S E C R E T - 110 r,s STALINGRAD (Con't) riad been in trie same waters and triat after visiting"Wrangel Island itriadtaken 40 days to make 600 miles due to ice in triat region, 31, Trie STALINGRAD carried Canadian corrected criarts possibly obtained during trie voyage to B.C. in 1956 or received from otrier Russian vessels who have recently visited Vancouver, Numerous Canadian charts have been purchased by the Russian vessels. Evaluation: A-2 . Date: November 1957 Source: DNI Ottawa S E C R E T 000803 �S E C R E T - Ill U.S.S.R. MERCHANT VESSELS SUCHAN Trie SUCHAN arrived in Vancouver on 5 December 1957 I^om Vladivostok carrying 800 tons of bunkers. Srie left on 17 December 1957 • . ... 9000 long tons for trie Vladivostok/Nakriodka area with. trie vessel are as follows:(336,000/00 bu,) #4 wheat, Criaracteristics of 1. (a) (b) (c) (d) Tonnage (GRT) Port of Registry: Owners: Type (Passenger, Cargo, Passenger/ Cargo, Tanker, Refrigerator) (e) (f) (g) Signal l e t t e r s : Year b u i l t (completed): Where b u i l t : (ri) Previous name if any: 7176 VLADIVOSTOK USSR (MORFLOT) Cargo 0/0/F/Z 1943 California S.B. Corp. Los Angeles Cal. USA. JOSE SEFULVEDA 2. Lengtri (overall): 422.8' 3. Beam: 57.0' 4. (aj Draft loaded, (b) Draft ligrit. Forward: 26' 3" Forward: 6' 0" 5. (a) Speeds, Maximum: 12.6 Service: 11.5 76 Revs 12 Kts. (b) RPM (for any or all speeds): 6. (a) (b) (c) (d) Type of propulsion: Type fuel: Bunker capacity: Daily consumption of fuel, (e) Fuel Endurance: Aft: 26' 4" Aft: 15' 6" Steam turbine triple expansion Oil Bunker C. 900 tons witri 9350 tons wrieat. Maximum speed: 28-30 Service speed: 25-28 Maximum speed: 30 days Service speed: 36 days. 7, Whether fitted for replenishment at sea: Standard Liberty. 8, (a) Passenger Capacity: (b) Full cargo capacity: (c) If suitable for troop carrying, if so, what capacity: Nil 9350 tons - 900 tons oil Present condition 20-30 9, Number of crew: 45 10* Number of riatcries and riolds: 5 11, Number of derricks : Lifting capacity: 50 tons. 12* Armament: 5 s e t s - jumbo 13, Strengtriened for gun platform (Yes or No): Nil No. 5 tons - �S E C R E T - 112 SUCHAN (Con't) 14. Strengthened for ice (Yes or N o ) : Extra -|-" plating riveted from bow to 10* abaft bridge above & below waterline. 15. If fitted with, radar equipment (Yes or N o ) : (Describe type and aerial.) Yes. USSR make Nav. type neptun aerial. 16. Description of W.T. equipment and aerials: Standard liberty. 17. If fitted witri D.F, equipment (Yes or No): (Describe type and aerial^, Yes, 18. If fitted with Echo Sounder (Yes or No): Yes 19. Fitted with Degaussing Gear (Yes or No): (Describe number and location of coils, ie: whether in trie riorizontal, vertical longitudinal or vertical athwartsriips plane,) Not o b s e r v e d . 20. Fitted with Paravanes (Yes or No): No. 21. (a) K-M-F-M (b) (c) (d) (e) Sequence forward to aft, of Kingposts, masts and funnel: Type of Hull: Type of Bow: Type of Stem: Type of Funnel: D.F. with loop antenna. Welded Raked Elliptical Broad s i n g l e cappea. Black w i t h reri band Hammer & S i c k l e , 22. Registered No, 29725 23. Net tonnage: 4380 Lt. 24. Displacement tonnage: NA 25. Dead weigrit tonnage: NA 26. Name of Master: Oleg BALANOV 27. Name of Wireless Operator: Lewen LARECHKIN 28. Name of Political Officer: Valentin DEREVJANKD �SECRET - 113 SUCHAN (Con't) GENERAL REMARKS - SUCHAN DECK SPACES 1, Trie forward spaces including trie fore peak were standard witri the exception of one item of equipment which, was unusual. It consisted of one black rubber tire marked 500 x 180 and four slightly larger tires marked 600 x l60. These were casings only. Triere was no tubing in sight and the tires were not new. The size of these tires and their baloon type sriape would indicate triat triey are trie kind of tires used on airplanes, 2, Trie following amounts ofriosewere observed: (a) 1 x 50' x 6" black corrugated witri flange, stowed under gun platform, (b) 1 x 50' x 4" black corrugated witri flange, stowed under gun platform. 1 x 12' x 4" black rubber corrugated, (c) stowed under steering flat, (a) 4 or 5 pieces of miscellaneous riose eacri about 12' long. About 350* of 2" black rubber water riose (e) stowed i n midsriips alleyway both, s i d e s , 3a. Four life boats were carried, one motorized, Triere was no evidence of trie boats riaving been recently in use, 4. There were 14 steel bunks and 4 mattresses located in the after accommodation under trie gun platform, Trieir condition was dirty and triere was no evidence of recent use, 5. A spare propeller was rioused on trie gun platform and a spare nose cone wasriousedin trie after flat. 6. A portable'band pump of trie two man type, painted red, was observed stowed on trie boat deck. 7. A spare derrick was stowed on trie after deck starboard side abeam of No. 5 riatcri, 8. A large canvas covered stowage was seen on trie gun platform size approximately 8' diameter x 4' riigri, 9. Extra tanks were carried to a height of 10 feet above the double bottom tanks in #1, #2 and #3 holds. These trianks were cleaned out and trie tops removed preparatory for trie loading of grain, 10. It was noted triat series of weld marks were evident on eitrier side of trie riolds fore and aft, Triese marks appeared to have been trie base of some permanent fitting since removed. Trie weldings riad been cut off down to deck level but were still obvious because of embedded rust. In addition, triere was an �SECRET - 114 SUCHAN (Con't) e x c e s s i v e number of eye b o l t s secured t o both, decks n e a r trie weld marks, (see s k e t c r i ) . 11* Trie d i s t a n c e between trie weldings was triat of a s t a n d a r d r a i l w a y an i t can be t h e r e f o r e assumed triat triese were marks of r a i l w a y l i n e s on which f r e i g h t c a r s o r r o l l i n g s t o c k had been c a r r i e d as deck cargo* v — y, 40, 4^ 0\ ^ "5-, % 3\ 5 4 w< ° y \J> •-. w •*• ^ " s >•* * - • ^ >_y \- \ i try Each s e p a r a t e weld i s about 16" long and | " wide Eyebolts H o l d BRIDGE SPACES 12* The bridge layout is basic as for previous Liberty ships. 13• Sperry gyro is carried as well as the Russian gyro, (It is noted that these vessels usually carry a technician especially for gyro and radar). There were two gyro repeaters on the Monkey Island and it appears that most of the navigation is done from'triis position. Trie actual wrieelriouse one deck below is not used a great deal. Trie upper wrieelriouseriadan electric speed-log indicator marked 0-22, plus mileage indicator and a revolution indicator, 14» Trie radio room was standard witri trie usual MacKay bank of receivers and transmitters. 15* speakers, Trie movie projector carried was l6 mm witri a 400 watt bulb and two l6. Four pairs of binoculars were carried - 2 pairs 8x50, one pair 7x50 and one pair 15x15. 17* A Russian made aneroid barometer in a leatrier case was seen in trie criart room, also a revolution indicator and a recorder log of Russian manufacture, �SECRET 115 SUCHAN (Con't ) 18, Trie r a d a r was of Russian manufacture s i m i l a r t o Model 268, Trie master s a i d trie r a d a r was good f o r a maximum of 50 m i l e s and trie D/F about 3°0 m i l e s off sriore, ENGINE ROOM 19, Trie engine room of triis vessel was trie cleanest and most efficient state of any vessel recently reported on. Trie equipment did not differ from trie normal Liberty sriip installations witri trie exception of the engine room gauges wriicri are now transcribed into Russian, It appeared triat triese dials were not replaced but superimposed witri Russian criaracteristics, MACHINE SHOP 20, The macriine sriop was standard and contained an 8' x 9" criuck latrie, drill press, grinder and various lockers. No unusual features were observed, 21, Trie small room at trie forward end of trie boiler room was once again in evidence in triis vessel. Trie room is only 4' x 4-|" and appears to'contain trie mecrianism for operating a speed log indicator (electric) - see sketcri, CAMERA U S T 22, as follows: Eight cameras were registered with trie Customs and Excise Department Name of Owner A, A, A, J, V, M, V, V, Saprikin Ivanov Prizva Danukov Marozov Gerasimov Kardosriev Reznikov Navigator 3rd mate 4th. engr. Fireman Machinist Turner 0/S A/B Make & Serial No of Camera ZORKY RED ZORKY ZENIT ZORKY-C FED-2 ZORKY ZENIT-C 6142119 0414859 55237389 5614773 55241537 114415 57067068 5613962 Value $180 180 180 180 180 180 180 180 CREW'S ACCOMMODATION & STORES 23. were noted: Crewts quarters were well kept and trie following items of interest (a) Priotograpriic equipment was in evidence but not in great quantity. Two enlargers were observed and at least one complete set of developing equipment. Triere was a greater amount of 35 mm film in evidence trianriadbeen previously noted in otrier sriips. (b) Triere were several empty and unused bunks including mattresses in eacri of trie 8 crew cabins. 000808 �3 wires leading through dockhoads Wire leading to panel on for8d bulkhead U wires leading to panel in Engine Room Dial Gauges Cti Wire leading from panol to Motor Generator Rotary Numbers Russian markings Panel PANEL IH ENGINE ROOM o i-i Peephole glass plate Valv« For^d Bulkhead Motor Port Bulkhoad olid stool ui 3/8*» dia, protrud ing 4" abovo deck. Rotary rotruding j2» above I deck. 8 16** x 18" well in deck in centre of room with instrument installed therein. Valve LAYOUT of h» X k¥ ROOM USSR SUCHAN r 000809 �SECRET - 117 SUCHAN (con't) (c) A surplus of cork life belts was in evidence in various stowage positions. It was estimated triat triere were three to every member of trie crew, (d) Dry stores contained a surplus of coffee but was sparsely stocked with, everything else. Very little meat and fish was stored and a minimum of vegetables, (e) Some 60 bib type overalls were seen and jackets to match, made of light weight grey rubber material. In addition, a very large souwester rubber hat appeared to come with each set. These hats had a brim at least 8" wide, (f) In a sealed locker there were several bundles each containing a dozen suits of heavy Arctic clothing plus an unspecified number of rubber boots and extra rubber clothing all in new condition, (g) There were 2 or 3 dozen pairs of leather ankle and knee jack boots similarly stowed, also 2 pairs of skis and accessories, 24. Trie COg room was full of tools and expensive diecutting equipment, also one large carton of quilted jackets and trousers, possibly six of eacri, Triey were all extremely dirty and covered witri black oil, 25. On trie main deck approximately midships in a room wriicri was previously arieadswas located a small electrician's workshop. 26. The doctor's cabin on the starboard side of the main deck contained a large amount of all kinds of medical supplies and surgical instruments, all in good condition. However, there was no indication of an operating theatre, 27. An additional item of interest found in a crew member's cabin was an illustrated book of the xvorld's merchant sriips. Trie publication riad one sriip to a page. There were 726 pages and all the vessels appeared to be of post war construction. The book was about 2" thick and 8" x 5" in size. Details of Fittings to Undertake Fuelling at Sea 28. The vessel appeared to carry only trie normal Liberty sriip type and number of fittings for fuelling at sea. Indication of Hull Strengtriening for Operations in Arctic Waters 29. No extra strengtriening was observed below decks but considerable extra plating riad been refitted to trie bow botri above and below trie water line to a distance from the bow to about 10 feet abaft the bridge. �SECRET - 118 SUCHAN (Con't) Back Details of Voyages 30, Trie SUCHAN was in Nakhodka on 18 October and departed Petropavlosk on 19 November and arrived Vancouver at 0600Z on 5 December, Trie master stated triat on approacriing Canada the first D/F station he contacted was Langara Island, trien Cape St. James, Ampriitrite and finally Swiftsure Light Vessel. The sriip made 12.6 knots wriicri is trie maximum speed attained and at 12 knots trie revolution indicator registered 76 revolutions. Any Indications of Crew Members Having served with Soviet Navy* 31* There was no Indication of any crew members riaving served witri the Soviet Navy. General Impression of Ship and Crew 32. cabin, The First Mate's cabin was placed midships, just aft of the Captain's A blackboard pointer and a large supply of books was seen in this cabin, 33* An incident occurred when a Customs official had to see the Captain about an infraction of regulations. It was noted triat during triis interview the First Mate (Boris IAVIGIN) had to be present and that he was not a seamanlike type, 34* Charts were observed with Russian names of the San Juan-VictoriaVancouver area. The master remarked that Canada was ah extremely rich country but it seemed to lack population in the northern areas, 35* The master wore 8 ribbons and altriougri triey could not be individually identified, triey closely resembled Russian World War II decorations, 36, Trie master spoke about trie first atomic-powered ice breaker, the LENIN of 16,000 tons, wriicri was launcried in Leningrad recently and is reputed to be trie largest and most powerful ice breaker in trie world. Trie master stated trie vessel was capable of breaking ice over 6 feet thick at a top speed of about 19 knots. Dimensions of the vessel are: length 85 feet, draught 30 feet, beam 90 feet, 44,COO HP. The master added triat trie stern of trie vessel is unique in design in triat trie bow of the vessel towed can be held up against trie stern of trie ice breaker. There are two winches on trie stern of trie ice breaker so that when trie vessel manoeuvres, one will pay out trie tow line and trie otrier will take up trie slack. Trie reason for triis close tow is triat broken ice is prevented from coming between trie bow of trie vessel towed and trie stern of trie ice breaker, 37, Trie master of the SUCHAN inquired four times in a period of 15 minutes as to why it takes so long to load trie Russian vessels in Vancouver, It was briefly explained to him that there are a large number of ships loading grain in trie port of Vancouver and trie ships riave to await their turn. It was also pointed out triat because trie Russian sriips are taking #4 wrieat wriicri is not in such, great demand, they have less waiting to do trian otrier vessels, 38, It rias been observed triat on arrival in Vancouver trie Russian masters question trie sriip's agent as to wrietrier it would not be crieaper to sack trie wrieat instead of lining trie vessels for bulk and if more suitable ! �SECRET - 119 SUCHAN (Con't) dry lumber could be used for lining as trie grain wriicri is in contact with the lining boards becomes mouldy. The ship's agent replied that dry lumber could not be obtained for sriifting boards at triis season but a waxed paper lining would be put over trie sriifting boards, riowever, trie coast would riave to be borne by trie vessel. Evaluation: A^-2 Date: November 1957 Source: DNI Ottawa S E C R E T �SECRET - 120 U.S.S.R* MERCHANT VESSEIS VALERY CHKATOV Trie VAT.ERY CHKATOV a r r i v e d i n Vancouver on 13 November 1957 from P r o v i d e n i y a c a r r y i n g 620 t o n s of b u n k e r s , Srie l e f t on 22 November 1957 f o r trie Vladivostok/Nakhodka a r e a witri 340,106/40 busriels (9110 long t o n s ) #4 Nortriern wrieat, 1. Criaracteristics of the vessel are as follows: - (a) Tonnage (GRT) (b) Port of Registry. (c) Owners: (d) Type (Passenger, Cargo, Passenger/ Cargo, Tanker, Refrigerator) (e) Signal letters: (f$ Year built (completed): (g) Where built: 2. 7176,49 Vladivostok USSR (MORFIOT) Cargo (Liberty) (ri) Previous name if any: U-U-1M 1943 Oregon Shipbuilding Corp Portland Oregon, USA. GRANT P. MARSH Length (overall): 422,8' 3, Beam: 57.0' 4. (a) Draft loaded, (b) Draft ligrit, Forward: 26' 6" Aft: 29' 1" Forward: 5' 11" Aft: 15' 7" 5, (a) Speeds, (b) RPM (for any or all speeds): Maximum: 6, (a) Type of propulstion: (e) Fuel Endurance, Steam turbine 3 cylinder triple expansion. Oil Bunker C Not in excess of 1000 tons if 9000 tons cargo carried. Maximum speed: Approx 28-29 tons Service speed: Approx 25 tons Maximum speed: Not known Service speed: Not known 7, Wrietrier f i t t e d for replenishment at sea: As o r i g i n a l l y f i t t e d 8, (a) Passenger capacity: (b) Full cargo capacity: Nil 9000 tons if 1000 tons bunker fuel carried only 30-40 without alterations (b) Type fuel: (c) Bunker capacity: (d) Daily consumption of fuel, (c) If suitable for troop carrying, if so, what capacity: 9. Number of crew: Service: 48 10, Number of hatches and riolds: 5 11, Number of derricks: Lifting capacity: 5 tons (SWL) Cargo Booms 20 Tons After Jumbo 50 Tons For'd Jumbo 13, 5 Strengthened for gun platform (Yes or No): After platform as originally fitted. 000813 �S E C R E T - 121 VALERY CHKATOV (Con't) 14. Strengtriened for ice (Yes or No): 15. If fitted witri radar equipment (Yes or No): Of Russian Manufadture - Neptun (Describe type and aerial.) Aerial, 16. Description of W.T. equipment and aerials: 17* If fitted with. D.F. equipment (Yes or N o ) : As originally fitted - Loop Antenna (Describe type and aerial). 18, If fitted witri Ecrio Sounder (Yes or N o ) : As originally fitted. 19, Fitted with. Degaussing Gear (Yes or No): (Describe number and location of coils, ie: wrietrier in trie horizontal, vertical longitudinal or vertical athwartsriips plane.) Not in evidence. 20, Fitted witri Paravanes (Yes or N o ) : No. 21, (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) Sequence forward to aft of kingposts, masts and funnel: K/M/F/M Riveted-Welded Type of Hull: Raked Type of Bow: Cruiser Type of Stem: Single-Broad-Capped-Painted-Red Type of Funnel: Band 2' wide on Black Funnel, Red Hammer & Sickle in relief on both sides. Number and position of boats: Four (4) Boats 1 So 3 Port side 2 & 4 Starboard side - Wood construction. None externally visible, Remarks as to unusual features: 22. Registered No. 11931 23. Net tonnage: 4380.41 tons 24. Displacement tonnage: 25. Dead weight tonnage: 10,390 26. Name of Master: Antoly NEVEJKIN - age 41 27. Name of Wireless Operator: Chief- W/T - Konstantin MATUKEVICH W/T - Valentin VAKULENKD 28. Name of Political Officer: Probably the Chief Mate Konstantin RADIN. �S E C R E T - 122 VALERY CHKATOV (Con't) GENERAL REMARKS - VALERY CHKATOV DECK SPACES - FORE & A F T PEAKS 1. order. Trie decks were reasonably clean and equipment was in good running 2, Trie equipment in trie fore and aft peaks and on trie deck in general was completely standard for a Liberty type sriip and trie only unusual feature noted was a large drum approximately 6' in diameter situated on trie starboard side of trie fore deck and full of 2" rieavily rusted wire, Triere was no indication triat triis wire riad been in use for some considerable time, A similar reel witri wire existed on trie starboard side somewhat furtrier aft. 3. One spare propeller blade and one spare shaft was darried. 4. Situated on trie bulkriead on trie rioUse beneatri trie after gun platform was a permanent piece bf equipment (see sketcri)* Trie use of wriicri triis equipment is put was not ascertained. This rias not been previously noted. A Port Holes -18" Bulkhead 4' C VJ ^/ 5, Trie deckriead of trie after peak riad 2 holes cut out, approximately 18 inches in diameter, and each roughly replated over, BRIDGE SPACE 6, Trie wrieelriouse and criart room contained equipment in every way similar to previously reported Liberty" sriips except that this vessel carried two spherical centigrade thermometers, 7, The equipment included two standard sextants and two of trie new bubble type sextants, 8, Trie old riead position on trie bridge is now trie PA room and contains two domestic radios and a tape recording macriine of Russian manufacture. 9, Trie radar equipment is standard for triis type of vessel and similar to triat previously reported. Trie radar was in use during trie coastal passage, 10, Trie gyro is located in trie aft, of trie Motor Generator room. Trie Russian gyro is use during trie coastal passage was found to be very accurate, MACHINERY SPACES 11, Trie small room previously reported in several of triese vessels, located on trie for'd end of trie boiler room and projecting into trie #3 riold, �- 123 - VALERY CHKATOV S E C R E T (Con't) was in evidence. The equipment therein was similar to others ot its type. This room is now classed as a watertight compartment containing the underwater electric log. 12. A Jacob's ladder was strung from the top to the bottom of the engine room. 13* The machine sriop contained two medium size latries and in addition a large drill, made in Holland, 14. Degaussing was not in evidence. CREW'S QUARTERS - STORES 15* Crew's quarters were found to be average and trie only unusual feature consisted of several priotograpris of unidentified sailors in Naval uniforms found amongst personal possessions. 16, Priotograpriic equipment included one enlarger wriicri was found to be privately owned. Trie projection room was normal and equipment included two loud speakers, 17* Trie sick bay was sparsely equipped and contained Chinese medicine in liquid form, marked Shanghai, 18, Food stores were average with a surplus quantity of venison, flour and macaroni, 19. A considerable amount of heavy winter clothing was observed, also life jackets and several waterproof ground sheets. Details of Fittings to Undertake Fuelling at Sea 20© On the port side of trie main deck approximately midsriips, 70 feet of 4"riosewas observed loosely coiled and a considerable amount of oil was on trie deck. Two additional pieces of hose were coiled on the boat deck, l|-" x 50 feet and 3" x 30 feet, plus several collision mats about 5'x7' in size. Indications of Hull Strengthening for Operations in Arctic Waters 21. The ship was unusual in that the previously welded Liberty hull riad since been riveted trirougriout. Back Details of Voyages, particularly Ports of Departure for Vancouver and Any Deviations from Inbound or Outbound Routes 22. According to trie sriip's documents, trie vessel arrived in Haiphong about 1 July 1956 towing dredger TH 1954 from Cuxriaven, and ori conclusion of triis trip trie vessel proceeded to Dairen (Dalny) for annual survey. Trie documents do not give trie vessel's scriedule after triis trip but it is believed triat trie �S E C R E T - 124 VALERY CHKATOV (Con't) sriip remained in trie Vladivostok area until Marcri 1957 and trim underwent anotrier survey at Dalny, Several of trie crew's passports bear clearance date stamp Vladivostok 26 August 1957• 23. Trie vessel departed Provideniya at 0100 4 November and arrived at Vancouver at 0900Z 13 November 1957, Trie sriip was remarkably fast for triis type and averaged 13_ knots. Any Indication of Crew Members Having Served witri Soviet Navy 24* The second Officer appeared to be trie type likely to have riad some Naval training. General Impression of Sriip and Crew 25. Trie ship was considered to be clean and efficient but few of trie officers riad any command of Englisri, The Chief Officer, who spoke rather more English than most, related that rie was torpedoed off Halifax in 1944 and spent some time inriospitaltriere. (Trie sriip was believed to be tbe KOLKHOSNIK, 3,880 tons). 26. Trie Officer of trie Watch was observed taking fixes every half hour during trie entire coastal passage, 27. The Naval electrical officer, Vasily CHENINK, was noted as having previously served aboard the vessel CAPTAIN SIMEROV (not listed in Lloyd's Register of Ships), 28. shown: The following crew members have previously visited Vancouver as Peter SLOBODENIUK - sailor - visited Vancouver aboard BAKU in 1956. Nikolay MIROSHNICHENKD - sailor - visited Vancouver aboard STALINGRAD in 1956, Ekateriha PUPISHEVP - stewardess - visited Vancouver aboard BAHU in 1956, Maria BODARENKC - cook - visited Vancouver aboard TOBOL in 1945* Sergey ANDRIEVSKY - machinist - visited Vancouver aboard WEILEN in 1944-45. Evaluation: A-2 Date: November 1957 Source: DNI Ottawa S E C R E T �S E C R E T 125 U.S.S.R. MERCHANT VESSELS VLADIMIR Trie VLADIMIR arrived in Vancouver on 16 December 1957 Irom Odessa carrying 450 tons of bunkers, She left on 4 January 1958 for the Vladivostok/Nakhodka area witri 10,700 long tons (approx.) wrieat, Criaracteristics of trie vessel are as follows: 1. (a) Tonnage (GRT) (b) Port of Registry: (c) Owners: (d) Type (Passenger, Cargo, Passenger/ Cargo, Tanker, Refrigerator) 8229.37 ODESSA USSR (Morflot) Shipping Tanker (e) Signal letters: (f) Year built (completed): (g) Where built: (h) Previous name if any: U-K-R-K 1957 Leningrad None 2. Lengtri (overall): 139,7 metres 3. Beam: 19,24 metres 4. (a) (b) 5, . (a) 6, Black Sea State 29' 0" 22' 0" (in ballast) Forward: Forward: Speeds, (loaded) Maximum: 15 knots Service: 13 knots 80 RPM - 14 knots, 75 HPM-12_ knots, _ speed - 60 RPM Slow- 30 RPM, (b) RPM (for any or all speeds): (a) (b) Type of propulsion: Type fuel: (c) (d) Bunker capacity: Daily consumption of fuel. (e) Fuel Endurance: 26' 4" 14' 0" Aft: Aft: Draft loaded, Draft light. 2 x 2000 IHP - diesel Diesel oil (transferred 25 tons to V MAYAKOVSKY) not known. Maximum speed: NK Service speed: Approx, 25 tons per day. Maximum speed: NK Service speed: NK 7. Whetrier fitted for replenisriment at sea: Not evident 8, (a) (b) (c) Nil. 10,680 tons witri 900 tons f u e l . 30 under present conditions. 9, Number of crew: Passenger capacity: Full cargo capacity: If suitable for troop carrying, if so, what capacity: 49 10, Number of riatcries and riolds: 11, Number of d e r r i c k s : 12, Armament: 13, Strengtriened for gun platform (Yes or No): No, 14, Strengtriened for i ce (Yes or No): 2 Lifting capacity: Nil, Not v i s i b l e . Not known. �SE _ R | T - 126 VLADIMIR (Con't) 15. If fitted witri radar equipment (Yes or No):Yes, Neptun type. Range 1-^, 5, 15 (Describe type and aerial.) & 30 miles. 16. Description of ?if.T, equipment and aerials: 17. If fitted witri D.F, equipment (Yes or No): Yes, marked SRP 5. (Describe type and aerial.) 18. If fitted witri Ecrio Sounder (Yes or No): 2 receivers - PAS-IM PRW 3 transmitters PSD - 0.25 ASP - 0.06 PSK - 0.25 Yes, 19. Fitted witri Degaussing Gear (Yes or No): (Describe number and location of coils, ie: wrietrier in trie horizontal, vertical longitudinal or vertical atriwartsriips plane.) Degaussing ran trie entire lengtri of the deck covered by a casing* 20. Fitted witri Paravanes (Yes or No): No. 21. (a) Sequence forward to aft, of kingposts,M-M-F masts and funnel: (b) Type of Hull: Welded-riveted (c) Type of Bow: Raked (d) Type of Stem: Cruiser (e) Type of Funnel: Single - broad, 22. Registered No. M-25037 23. Net tonnage: 3942.04 24. Displacement tonnage: N.A, 25. Dead weight tonnage: 10,680 26. Name of Master: Vladimir VAVER0V 27. Name of Wireless Operator: Nikolai MESHIN 28. 1st mate - Nikolay KQZL0B Name of Political Officer: �S E C R E T - 127 - VLADIMIR (Con't) GENERAL REMARKS - VLADIMIR FORE PEAK - AFTER PEAK - DECK SPACES 1, Trie fore peak consisted of a raised forecastle with several stowage cabins on deck level. One of these cabins contained a portable booster pump with eledtric motor. The size of the pump was described as being fairly large with total weight of pump and motor about 250 lbs, 2, Approximately fifty pairs of new srioes and 25 pairs of new rubber knee boots witri felt linings were seen in one of trie cabins, also a considerable number of unused cork life jackets and several metal boxes containing emergency rations, 3, Deck spaces were considered normal for a tanker and no items of interest were noted thereon. Six life boats were carried including two small boats aft, 4, Two compartments existed at deck level either side of the main bridge riouse. There was a C02 room in this section containing 110 cylinders in good condition. In the same space was found the following amounts of hose: (a) 16 sections of 25' x 6" black corrugated rubber riose witri couplings - 2 of the 16 appeared to be unused, (b) 10 sections of 25' x 4" black corrugated rubber hose with flanges, (c) Approx, 250' of 2" plain black rubber water hose, (d) Approx, 500' of 2" wire wrapped brand new hose. This coil was still wrapped in burlap and had not been in use, (e) Several sections of canvas water hose, 5, Two spare ancriors were carried on deck. Triere was no sign of a spare propeller or blades, Triree sand boses were located on deck as part of trie normal fire figriting equipment, 6, Triere were at least 5 oil loading points including one aft. Degaussing ran trie entire lengtri of trie deck covered by a casing. ENGINE ROOM 7, Trie engine room was in first class condition as would be expected witri a new vessel. Trie engines were described as being similar to trio Danish Burmeister Wain diesels. Two subsidiary diesel engines were coupled up to trie generator and were described as being an old fasriioned type of diesel wriicri were extremely noisy, 8, Two additional diesel booster engines for trie main engines were located one floor above trie main engine room deck. �S E C R E T 128 VLADIMIR (Con't) 9, A CO2 room with 12 large cylinders was located in the engine space. The engine room panel was compact and large with all markings in Russian. 10, Gauges in the engine room appeared to indicate that the vessel had 16 oil tanks. 11, engine room, Cabins were heated with steam heat from one steam boiler in the MACHINE SHOP 12, The machine shop contained an 8' lathe 6' high of a similar advanced design as that previously described. This lathe could be elevated and has a treble purpose including use as a milling machine and drill press. In addition, there was a large drill press and several grinding machines, all made in Russia, BRIDGE SPACES 13, The bridge spaces were in good condition and considered normal for a new vessel. There was nothing observed in tho way of new or different equipment * layout of Bridge and Chart Room were as follows: 14. D Rev. Telephone Flags WHEEL HOUSE Pelorus ^Gyro Magnetic Compass O O ^pwheel Radar Scope Echo Sounder* Course Records?" Pelorus Chart Table Radar Chronometer (Ru)Smoke indicator lights to fire alarm system ^§">G O Loran J 15, The criart room contained an item described as a bank of warning lines indicating smoke content of four parts of the ship leading to trie fire alarm system. Five vernier type sextants were seen in trie criart room, 16, A small wooden box was observed in trie criart room containing a 4 blade brass propeller attached to a rod on which was superimposed a small electric generator. The whole thing was covered with bakelite and included at least two electric terminals, 17, All charts seon wero Russian including those of local B.C. waters. The chart used for coastal navigation covered Cape Flattery, Straits of Juan de Fuca, and Puget Sound area to Vancouver, A block insert of Vancouver in large scale was also shown on this chart. �S E C R E T - 129 VLADIMIR (Con't) 18* Radar was of a type similar to that carried in previous Russian vessels with a range of 1,5, 5, 15 and 30 miles. Radar and radio aerials were standard, 19* Gyro was of Russian manufacture and had repeaters on both wings of the bridge. Telegraphs were electrically controlled* Two echo sounders were carried, one flasher and one graph type. D/F was not in evidence, 20, There were no search lights on the wings of the bridge. There appeared to be a considerable amount of wiring on the face of the binnacle within a casing, 21, Binoculars observed consisted of 2 pairs 7x50, 2 pairs 14x50 and case only for 8x30 pair, 22, Speed and revolutions were as follows: 14 knots 80 revs; 12,5 knots 75 revs; half speed 60 revs; slow speed 30 revs. To go slow the captain said one engine had to be reversed against the other. On docking the pilot called for "stop" and continued to get 30 revs ahead. The captain quickly corrected the error. Later when going half astern the pilot called for "stop" and continued to get 30 revs astern and again the captain had to correct trie situation. 23. The generator room contained a 16 HP diesel engine. 24« The radio room (see sketch) contained nothing new except that a corner of it appeared to be reserved for photograpriic work. The following equipment was observed in this space: 1 enlarger, 1 print dryer, 1 variable view finder, 1 13,5 cm telescopic lens and 1 variable view findor belonging to the captain which would fit a Zorky camera. In addition, the 4th engineer had an enlarger. Print dryer, englarger and Radar spares Transmitter 24 x 18 x 10 Transmitter 54 x 36 x 33 0-50 A, 250 V. \ RADIO ROOM la 4 motor generators (small) Receiver 22 x 18 x 14 I a_ P.A. Turntable and tape recorder 25, Officers' accommodation was extremely good particularly the first mate's whicri consisted of a cabin and batriroom. This officer had political books and wore metal ribbons attached to riis civilian clothes. He made himself completely at home in the captain's cabin* 26. locker. Each of the officers' cabins contained either a safe or steel 27. There was a large domestic radio receiver in tho officers saloon and a particularly powerful one in the captain's cabin. �S E C R E T - 130 VLADIMIR (Con't) i 28, A dial instrument was observed in trie captain's dabin and on the bridge (see sketdh). It was not ascertained what function this instrument had, 6" Set Pointer 7 ! I \ / 0 \7 1 CREW SPACES 29» Crew accommodation was aft, and eacri seaman had a cabin to himself vdth trie exception of two 2-bertri cabins. It was also noted triat each cabin had facilities for at least one extra bunk. Eacri cabin contained a thermometer, a world map and a loud speaker hook-up to the P.A, 30j The crew appeared to bo between the ages of 20-25 and judging by the number of books of instruction, many of triem were students, 31• A considerable amount of civilian clotriing was seen including some well made leatrier jackets from China. Other personal possessions were sparse, 32. There were several pictures of sailors in naval type uniforms. One photograph was seen of a man in Naval uniform with a broad white sash on each shoulder. 33. Women stewardesses were carried and accommodation was very clean and well kept, 34* Two other points of interest in the crew's accommodation were • that the bulkheads appeared to be very flimsy and made of light metal, possibly moveable; also that no photograpris or pictures of Russian leaders were in evidence, 35* Food stores were very low on arrival in Vancouver and were quickly brought up to normal by local purchases, A considerable number of small frozen chickens of Chinese origin were observed. The refrigeration compartment was small and the temperature was around 0° F. 36, An incident occurred where the Customs searcher was denied access to two cabins. After repeated demarids,riowever,trie escorting officer produced keys for triose cabins fromriispocket. Trie cabins were not in use but were extremely well furnished. One of the cabins contained a large photograph of a vessel described as being of about 10,0g0 tons with a funnel aft and a long name in Russian on the bow. The midships section of this vessel consisted of a modernistic type bridgerieavilyfitted witri radar and radio aerials of an advanced design. �SE CR E T I - 13* VLADIMIR (Con't) 37. Very little photographic equipment was observed in the crew's quarters. No projection room for film equipment was seen, however, it is believed that this is housed off the main saloon and the wall aperture covered by a picture. Back Details of Voyages 38. This vessel, whicri is a tanker of 8229 gross tons, was built in Leningrad and completed about April 1957. The master stated the vessel is a sister ship to the KOSTROMA. 39. Track lines on world maps in the crew's quarters indicate triat the VLADIMIR had come from the Baltic area through the English Channel, Mediterranean, India, China and the Far East to Vladivostok, It is believed the vessel visited a Korean port, 40. The vessel departed Vladivostok on 30 November 1957 and arrived at Vancouver, B.C., on 16 December 1957 at 1700Z, Serial Numbers & Manufacturers Names of any Radio or Radar Equipment 41. Three transmitters wero marked: PSD 0.25 ASP 0.26 PSK 0,25 Two receivers were marked: PAS - IM PRW The D/F was marked: SRP-5. General Impression of Ship & Crew 42. The captain is 32 years of age, single and speaks good English, He is known to like western type music including musical comedy. He seems to be greatly influenced by the first mate, 43* The speed of trie VLADIMIR is believed to be greater trian triat of a Liberty sriip and is estimated to be 14-15 knots in ballast and 12-14 knots loaded. Trie master stated triat rie left trie USSR 2 days after the DEKABRIST and arrived in Vancouver 2 days Before her. However, the ships' documents reveal triat botri vessels left on 30 November and trie VLADIMIR arrived on l6 December and the DEKABRIST on 18 December, 44. A Russian TV set was soen in the officers' quarters. One officer made inquiry about buying coaxial cable. liraluation: A-2 Date: November 1957 Source: DNI Ottawa S E C R E T �SEC RET 135 U. S. S. Ra MERCHANT VESSELS ZARJA The•Zarja arrived in Vancouver on 24 September, 1957 from London, England, 1. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) 2. Tonnage (GRT) Port of Registry: Owners: Type (Passenger, Cargo, Passenger/Cargo, Tanker, Refrigerator) Signal letters: Year Built:(completed) Where Built: Previous name if any: Length (overall): Leningrad, USSR USSR (Ministry of Communications Research vessel for magnetic, hydrographic and oceanographic work UQPV 1955 Turku/Abo, Finland 100 feet (approximately) 3. Beam: 20 feet (approximately) 4. (a) Draft loaded (b) Draft light Forward: 11' 6" Forward: N.K. 5. (a) Speeds Maximum:and Service: N.K. 6. (b) R.P.M. (for any and all speeds) (a) Type of propulsion: (b) Type of fuel: (c) Bunker capacity: (d) Daily consumption of fuel: (e) Fuel endurance: Aft: N.K. Aft: N.K. 8 kts - 7 kts (estimated) Diesel - 6 c y l i n d e r , 4 s t r o k e , 240 HP made by Beukau-Wolff of anti-magnetic s t e e l driving single screw through gearbox. Medium g i e s e l f u e l Approximately 30 tons (ship took on 26 tons at Halifax) Maximum speed: 1.3 tons Service speed: 1 ton Maximum and Service Speeds: Approx. 3500 7. Whether fitted for replenishment at sea: No s p e c i a l f i t t i n g s seen. 8. Approximately 20 N.A, N.A. (a) Passenger capacity: (b) Full cargo capacity: (c) If suitable for troop carrying, and if so, what capacity: #, Number of crew: 15 10. Number of hatches and holds: N.A. 11. Number of, and lifting capacity of derricks: N.A. 000825 �SECRET 3 134 ZARJA (Con't) 12. Armament: Nil. 13. Strengthened for gun platform. Yes or No. No. 14. Strengthened for i c e . Yes or No. Copper sheathing below w a t e r l i n e . of very heavy wooden b u i l d . 15. If f i t t e d with radar equipment (Yes or No). Describe type and a e r i a l : Yes. Soviet "Neptun" t y p e . 16. Description of W.T. equipment and a e r i a l s : 1 H/F Xmtr. Type and power not known. 1 L/F-M/F Xmtr. Type and power not known. 1 Lifeboat transmitter type APW-3 3 or more communications receivers, (type not known). 1 or more LW/SW domestic entertainment receivers. 1 receiver for "Consol" signals. No Decca or Loran receivers sighted. 1 Soviet "Banner" T.V. r e c e i v e r . (CBHTHalifax p i c t u r e could be received but not the sound). 1-"L" type from deckhead insulator forward of mizzenmast to mizzen-topmast, then triced along triatic stay to fore topmast. 1-"V" type from deckhead insulator forward of mizzenmast to maintop preventer stay which was insulated and used as top leg of "Vee". 1-Vertical - from deckhead insulator to port mizzen-topmast backstay which was insulated each end. Probably used as main H/F or M/F Xmtr. aerial. 2-Vertical wire - Mizzen c r o s s t r e e s t o deck, probably receiver a e r i a l s . 1-Vertical wire , main c r o s s t r e e s t o deck, 1-Vertical Whip (app 20') just forward mizzenmast port side. Antennae: Ship It appeared that the starboard mizzenmast ratlines were used as a sense aerial for the D/F as a single lead from them was lead into hull with the two cables from the B/F loops. 17. If fitted with D.F. equipment. (Yes or No): (Describe type and aerials) Crossed D/F loops were fitted on forward end of mizzen crosstrees. Two covered cables from loop assembly were triced to the starboard mizzenmast shroud from whence they were lead into the deckhouse, starboard side, just abreast the mizzenmast. 18. If fitted with Echo Sounder (Yes or No): Two echo sounders fitted, (types not ascertained). One was a normal type echo sounder (possibly NEL3). The other registered 0-6000 metres and had a paper recorder (paper coated with carbon black). It had the recording paper rolls installed vertically with vertical reciprocating stylus. 000826 �S E C R E T 4 - 131 ZARJA (Con't) 19. Fitted with Degaussing Gear: (Yes or No). (Describe number and location of coils, i.e. whether in the horizontal, vertical, longitudinal or vertical athwartships plane). Ship was specially built as an antimagnetic vessel for magnetometric surveys and had an absolute minimum of magnetic metal in its construction. Virtually all rigging deck fittings and machinery made of bronze or copper. Diesel engine made of anti-magnetic steel. 20. Bitted with Paravanes: (Yes or No). No. 21. Details for coding: 22. Registered No.: 23. Net tonnage: 24. Displacement tonnage: 600 tons (estimated) 25. Dead weight tonnage: 26. Name of Master: 27. Name of Wireless Operator: 28. Name of Political Officer: GENERAL REMARKS - ZARJA Gyro Compasses: 1. Two Soviet made Anshutz-type 3-rotor gyro compasses. Approximate. . size 28 inches by 28 inches by 36 inches. (About the size of a Brown Gyrocompass) . 2. The transmission system from the sensitive elements apparently responds to changes of two minutes of arc as the two magnetometers in the ships laboratory record ships true course to two minutes of arc. 3. The course recorder in the ships laboratory was on a scale of 4mm = 1 degree. It is estimated that the course recorder trace could be read to l/10th of a degree. 4. . The latitude adjustments on the compasses were graduated up to 75 degrees. 5. These gyro-cQmpasses appeared tc be standard production models and not special laboratory built equipment. Note: Such compasses would be very useful for submarines. 6. There were four gyro-peloruses on the upper deck and all were fitted with alidades. Magnetometers 7. Two magnetometers were fitted. They seemed to be laboratory-iade. The heads recorded to 20 gammas and the stable platforms were estimated to stay within 15 to 20 seconds of arc from true perpendicular. The magnetometers measured declination, azimuth and horizontal components (d, h & z ) . 8, An additional magnetometer for measuring Total Force was fitted. �SECRET — •J — - 131 ZARJA (Con't) GENERAL REMARKS -ZARJA ( C o n ' t ) 9. Two d i e s e l - a l t e r n a t o r s provided 220 volt 50 cycle current, believed to be 3-phase but t h i s was not confirmed. Horsepower and output of system not determined. 10. The power supply could be regulated finely in both the engine room and the laboratory . Recorders F i t t e d in Laboratory: 1 1 . Total Force, Magnetic Meridian, Ships head (True), Relative bearing of magnetometer heads from ships head, Echo-sounder, Ship's power c i r c u i t frequency, tape recorder used with Proton Precession Magnetometer, self-contained portable o s c i l l i s c o p e recorder (photographic), and recorders for a l l components of magnetometers. Accommodation: 12. The scientists were accommodated separately from the crew and officers. Living conditions appeared to be good. Evaluation: Date: Source: A-2 September, 1957 DNI Ottawa S E CR E T 000828 �CONFIDENTIAL 4 - 13* U. S. S. R. NORTHERN SEA ROUTE Shipping Activity in the Northern Sea Route Source obtained the following information when in conversation with Captain Lev BUDYLKIN, Master of the Russian Merchant Vessel, Sevastopol which arrived at Vancouver, B.C. on 31 October, 1957 to load grain for Vladivostok/Nakhodka. The Sevastopol sailed from Leningrad on 8th July, 1957, for Murmansk. The date of arrival at that port was not disclosed. On August 28th the ship sailed east in the Arctic but, on the third day at sea, she lost her propeller and was ordered to return to Murmansk in tow of another ship. The Sevastopol sailed again on 20th September on her eastern Arctic route. During this sailing she made two calls namely: at TIKSI and at PEVEK. . Both TIKSI and PEVEK are radar, meteorological and meteorographical stations. At TIKSI several military and civilian persons were put ashore; some of them, it is believed, were of high level administration. The Sevastopol remained at TIKSI for two days, during which time the Captain went ashore a few times, together with the Chief Engineer. Neither of these officers saw much on land, their explanation being: "Much of the area is restricted". On arrival at PEVEK, there again several military and civilian officials were landed and, again for the reason of restricted areas, they did not see much. The ship sailed from PEVEK after being tied up at the wharf for four days, and proceeded east, destination being Provideniya. A lot of ice was encountered when approaching the Bering Strait and the Bering Sea. The weather was good most of the way from Murmansk to Provideniya. On October 20th the Sevastopol sailed from Provideniya in good, clear weather which lasted until the ship reached the area of the Aleution Islands and south of them, when the last days of sailing to Vancouver were met with the heavy sea, sleet, rain and fog. Being in ballast the ship rolled badly. Cargo unloaded on the way: Murmansk: crated machinery Tiksi: crated machinery, sacked barley, sugar Pevek: crated machinery, sacked barley, sugar Provideniya: crated machinery, some large, heavy boxes (contents not disclosed) and sacked sugar. Evaluation: Date: F-3 13 November, 1957 Source: DNI Ottawa C O N F I D E N T I A L 000829 �S E CRE T 1 -13* U.S.S.R. PORTS KOVDA Source, who visited Kovda in early June 1957, reported that the stevedore labour in triis port is carried out by women. According to source triey do an excellent job of stowing timber. Trie inhabitants of KOVDA differ somewhat from KYEM in that they are permanent residents. During the shipping season they work the ships, the remainder of the year the sawmill keeps them fully occupied. The housing situation on OLYENI Island was observed to be very poor. Trie majority of buildings or houses were 4 family units. Smaller units were partly built of compressed sawdust, these were in terrible condition and heeled over at an angle of 15 degrees. No military or naval personnel were observed on the island. No radar screens were observed nor anything to suggest guided missile bases. Trie following item numbers refer to Appendix A Item 1 Pilot Station Item 2 This quay is long enougri to allow 2 sriips »f approximately 2,500 - 3,000 ton deadweight alongside at one time. Length of quay was estimated to be 700 ft. Depth alongside quay was 19 ft. Item 5 An old sawmill is located on OVYECHI Island. Judging by its dilapidated condition this mill has not been in operation for a considerable time. KYEM Source, who visited Kyem in early June 1957, reported that the stevedores at KYEM are mostly from trie Leningrad area. Triese men appeared very independent, and as an example, source told the following story - "Before leaving for work in the north every man is required to sign a contract for a certain length of service. Some of the men informed source that the contracts are not taken seriously and that many of the men had left for their homes long before trie termination of their contract and that they would continue to do so in the future." Source, explained that trie 7 day working week which had long been regarded as standard for people working in the north is a thing of the past. The normal working week at this time is 5jj days. Source had been unable to see any Radar antennas at KYEM or in the surrounding area, nor had he detected anything of interest along the coast and islands he had passed enroute to this port. Source mentioned that he had been and still was, puzzled about the Army personnel he had observed at KYEM, The fallowing item numbers refer to Appendix B. Item 1 Pilot Station 65° 014'N 35° 03'E �SECRET i - 13$ PORTS (Con't) Item 2 & 3 Timber quay; This quay can at present accomodate only 2 ships at one time. The northern half of triis quayriasa water depth of 14 _ feet whilst the southern half has a depth of 17 feet. In location indicated by Item 5 this quayriasbeen lengthened considerably by the closing-in of the small basin. The wall of this new addition is complete, the deck whicri is to be ofrieavyplanking remains t« be.completed. Trie depth along the new section will be 20 feet. The entire quay is of wood construction and is reported to extend 2 feet only above the water level at high, water. During strong northerly wind ships are forced to leave the quay for anchorage as the serging of ships alongside would demage the quay. Item 4 When not on station the pilot boat secures in this location. Item 5 This quay is very old and is probably the original quay at KYEM. The timber rias rattled over the years and the quay is in a very bad state of repair. A small patrol craft was partly observed secured to the north, end of trie quay. Item 6 Two buildings occupied by Army personnel were observed in this location. Item 7 A number of storage sheds heavily guarded by Army sentries were observed in this area. Item 8 A fairly large house occupied by naval personnel was observed to be located in the vicinity of the Radio beacon, (Source expressed the opinion that the naval personnel manning the patrol craftriehad observed in port lived in this house when not on patrol duty). Item 9 A number of community type houses are situated in this area around the sawmill. Item 10 A village recently built was observed in this area. Source: D.N.I. Date: 10 Dec. 1957 Evaluation: F - 2. 000831 �B . . . . r r ? . ,i - . . } . . m 1 .- .T -• »• T f i^' ,.ni .i . Ii •i i»i • « 11H m • . . . P W T J , , . , y . ' t J J ) • . • . w i ' i rt • • • , n i r v i i . . * i • • • . 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