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================================================== Page 1 ================================================== 177-10002-10105] 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 JFK Assassination System' Date; 3/6/2018 Identification For Agency Inforation AGENCY : LBJ RECORD NUMBER : 177-10002-10105 RECORD SERIES NSF, CF, USSR, VOL. 21,BOX 226 AGENCY FILE NUMBER : Document Information ORIGINATOR CIA FROM: TO TITLE : SPECIAL REPORT--WEEKLY REVIEW DATE : 09/13/1968 PAGES : 11 SUBJCTS NNTELLIGENCE REPORT DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICA TION Secret RESTRICTIONS Consulted; Mandatory Review Material CURRENT STATUS Redact DATE OF LAST REVEW 07/06/1994 OPENING CRITERIA COMMENTS DOC. #57 v9.1 Top: ================================================== Page 2 ================================================== ROUTING TOP SECRET To: NAME AND ADDRESS DATE INITIALS [ToNeHIS SrcEees NARI Nnls (Security Classification) 2 3 ACTINN DRECTREAY PREPARERERY AFPRQVAL DSPATCH RECOMMENDATON CQMENL FLLE RERN QNQURRENCE NNQWTNN SIGNATURE CONTROL No. Sc NooozgtlzBLg] REMARKS: COPY 3 OF FROM; NAME ADDRESS; AND PHONE NO DATE TeadkcnddeaLFUL IS Handle Via 0 COMINT Channels Access to this document will be restricted to those approved for the following specitic activities: NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION 1 Unauthorized Disclosure Subject to Crimlnal Sanctions TOP SECRET (Security Classification) 6 Ilax ================================================== Page 3 ================================================== Secret 57 No Foreign Dissem 4onona ( 5 Of DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE The Developing Soviet Submarine Force Special Report WEEKLY REVIEW Secret Handle via Comint Channels 13 September 1968 SC No . 00 787/6 8B Top LUNITED _ AMERICA SATES Top ================================================== Page 4 ================================================== TOP SECRET SPECIAL REPORTS are supplements to the Current Intelli- gence Weeklies ' issued by the Office of Current Intelligence. The Special Reports are published separately to permit more comprehensive treatment of 2 subject. They are prepared by the Office of Current Intelligence, the Office of Economic Re- search, the Office of Strategic Research, and the Directorate of Science and Technology: Special Reports arc coordinated as appropriate among the Directorates of CIA but, except for the normal substantive 'exchange with other agencies at the working level, have not -been coordinated outside CIA unless specifically indicated: W A R N[NG The SPECIAL REPORT contains classified information affect- the national security of the United States within the mean- of the espionage laws, US Code Title 1 8, Sections 793, 794, and 798. THIS DOCUMENT MUST BE KEPT TN COMMUNICA TIONS INTELLIGENCE CHANNELS AT ALL TIMES The SPECIAL REPORT is to be seen only by US personnel es- pecially indoctrinated and authorized to receive COMMUNICA- TIONS INTELLIGENCE information; its . security must be maintained in accordance with COMMUNICATIONS INTELLI- GENCE REGULATIONS. No action is to be taken on any COMMUNICATIONS INTEL LIGENCE which may be contained herein, regardless of the ad- vantages to be gained, unless such action is first approved by the Director of Central Intelligence. DLSSEMINATION CONTROLS The SPECIAL REPORT MUST NOT BE RELEASED TO FOR- EIGN GOVERNMENTS and must be handled within the frame- work of specific dissemination control provisions-of DCID 1/7. GROUP Excludad automotic dovngredina and declassificotion TOP SECRET ing ing from ================================================== Page 5 ================================================== TOP SECRET TRINE No Foreign Dissem THE DEVELOPING SOVIET SUBMARINE FORCE The Soviet naval leadership, commanding the world's largest submarine fleet, is undertaking & prO- gram to increase the operational capabilities of the force. Four new classes of submarines_three tor- pedo-attack classes and a new Polaris-type missile- firing submarine_are in production, and several older classes are being improved and reconditioned_ In ad- dition, since the early 1960s the range, number, and duration of open ocean patrols by Soviet submarines have been generally increasing: TOP SECRET TRINE Page :1 SPECIAL REPORT 13 68 Sep ================================================== Page 6 ================================================== TOP SECRET TRINE No Foreign Dissem Fleet Modernization carried on the older ballistic- missile submarines but are The new Polaris-type sub_ within range of the SS-N-6 marine--designated the Y-class-- carried on the Y-class carries 16 SS-N-6 ballistic mis _ the mid-1970s Soviet ballis- siles with ranges of some 1,500 tic-missile submarines miles These 425-foot-lons sub- present a strategic ehreay cOm- marines are currently being built parable to that of the US Polaris at Severodvinsk in the Soviet fleet and be able to operate with Northern Fleet area The first less risk of detection than units should be operational soon earlier classes of Soviet mis _ and 40 or more could be in serv- sile submarines ice by the mid-1970s _ The introduction of the new Two new classes of nuclear- classes of attack submarines powered attack submarines are suggests that the Soviets are also being built--one at Lenin- attempting to come to grips graa shipyard and the other at with the Polaris threat_ The Gorkiy_ At least one of these Soviets apparently are counting classes probably was specifically on their submarines to help designed to engage enemy subma- blunt that threat by attempting rines A third class of attack to destroy Polaris submarines submarine is under construction before they can launch their in the Soviet Far East; its means missiles of propulsion is not known Soviet ballistic-missile In addition to these new con - submarines frequently patrol struction programs the Soviets within range of US Polaris are reconditioning many of their bases and could destroy a nu- older classes of S ubmarines _ ber of Polaris submarines by There are no indications that attacking these bases The the Soviets intend to introduce new Soviet attack submarines a_ new class of cruise-missile may be able to locate and de - submarine however and con - stroy a few Polaris submarines struction of these submarines in confined waters through which 1s apparently ending a5 the those submarines frequently Soviets approach their desired must pass such as the Irish force level for these anticar- Sea or the Sicilian Straits rier units Combined operations with new Soviet surface ships such as Operational Implications the Moskva-class helicopter car- riers and Kresta- ana Kashin- Strategic targets in the class guided-missile ships midale of the US are beyona will provide some antisubmarine reach Of the 650-mile SS-N-5 capability in the ocean approaches TOP SECRET TRINE Page 2 SPECIAL REPORT 13 68 BY yet Sep ================================================== Page 7 ================================================== TOP SECRET' . TRINE The Soviet Submarine Force 48 Severomorsk Kaliningrad) Nuclear-powered Ballistic missile 0 17 Cruise missile # 8 8 4 Attack Sevastopol Diesel-powered Ballistic missile Cruise missile 8 61 3 68 Attack Vladivostok Fleet Headquarters BALLISTIC MISSILE SUBMARINES Y-CLASS Nuclear powered Carries 16 SS-N-6 missiles in hull 425 feet long Now being deployed H-CLASS 280} Nuclear powered Carries three SS-N-4 or SS-N-5missiles in sail 380 feet long 9 in service 0160 G-CLASS Diesel powered Carries three SS-N-4 or SS-N-5 missiles in sil 320 feet long 22 in service ZCONVERSION CLASS Diesel powered Carries two SS-N-4 missiles in sail 295 feet long 6 in service SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM 91849 8-68 CIA TOP SECRET TRINE 1 1 ! 1 1 1 1 1 ================================================== Page 8 ================================================== TOP SECRET TRINE No Foreign Dissem Northern Sea Route convoy in CLASSES OF SOVIET SUBMARINES past suers _ Nuclear Powered Diesel Powered The Baltic Fleet is re- sponsible for protecting Soviet Ballistic Missile Y Ballistic Missile G coastal waters and for furnish- 2 Conversion ing diesel submarines for pa- Cruise Missile Cruise Missile J trols off the US Polaris base E11 Conversion Attack Attack at Holy Loch Moscow has also 8 7 begun sending Baltic Fleet sub- marines to the Mediterranean to One New Class 'B" take some of the strain off the SECRET Northern Fleet, which has been NO FOREIGN DISSEM furnishing most of the units 91870 8-68 CIA RELEASABLE To Uk AND CANADA there operating There are no nuclear submarines in the Bal- to the USSR and in the Mediter- tic and the few cruise-missile ranean_ units there operate in coastal waters Deployment Patterns The Montreux Convention Soviet submarines are 2s - of 1936 places severe limita- signed to each 0f the four tions on the passage 0f Soviet fleets--Northern , Pacific , Bal- submarines through the Turkish tic ana Black Sea . Because Straits Black Sea based of the restricted exits from submarines can pass into the the Baltic and Black Seas how- Mediterranean only if are ever most of the missile- headed for another fleet area equipped units and all of the for repairs For this reason nuclear-powered units are based only older diesel units are in ice-free ports Of the Kola based in the Black Sea Once Peninsula (Northern Fleet) and in the Mediterranean however , in the Pacific Fleet_ these units operate there for about 60 days on their way to The Soviets are apparently ana from Baltic shipyards trying to reduce the dispropor- tion between the two major Patrol Activity fleets--the Northern and the Pacific Although the North- Most Of the increase in ern Fleet still holds the favored the level of Soviet submarine position several nuclear sub- operations during the past year marines have been transferred is attributable to the station- under the polar ice to the Pa- ing of a force of six to ten cific and a number Of modern submarines--mostly diesel attack diesel units have joined the units-_in the Mediterranean since TOP SECRET TRINE Page 4 SPECIAL REPORT 13 68 they Sep ================================================== Page 9 ================================================== TOP SECRET TRINE No Foreign Dissem June 1967; at least one nuclear No confirmed patrols by unit is usually included in A-class ballistic-missile units the force _ There was an over- have been noted since late 1966 _ all increase of nearly 20 per- and there have been periods dur- cent in the number of Soviet the past year when no Soviet submarine patrols beyond local ballistic-missile submarines fleet operating areas in 1967 _ have been on patrol in either but if the trena noted so far the Atlantic or Pacific_ The this year continues fewer sub- G-class is the only such sub- marines will deploy in 1968 _ marine now being used for mid- Patrols this year have been of ocean patrols longer duration however thereby resulting in more sub- Conversion and overhaul marine time at sea_ of first-generation ballistic- Soviet Submarine Deployments 1965-1968 Total 138 Total 116 Total 114 Total 102 82, 77 69 43 33 15 20 316 14 2 2 10 1965 1966 1967 1968 NORTH 2e BALTIC BLACK 352 PACIFIC Number 0f deploved units, not including routine interfleet transters or fleet exercise participants TOP SECRET TRINE NO FOREIGN DISSEM 91946 9-68 CIA RELEASABLE TO UK AND CANADA TOP SECRET TRINE Page 5 SPECIAL REPORT 13 68 ing Sep ================================================== Page 10 ================================================== TOP SECRET TRINE No Foreign Dissem missile submarines and the re- older W-class units are equipped assignment of their crews to to launch cruise missiles but new Y-class units have probably these too_ operate near been at least partly responsible Soviet shores ana probably are for the decline in ballistic- being retirea from service missile submarine activity_ In addition the loss of a G-class submarine in the Pacific in mid- Recent patrols by diesel March apparently resulted in a attack submarines in the Medi- three-month standdown in patrols terranean have been extended by these units That incident to as long as six months through probably caused the Soviets to the use of Arab and Yugoslav implement new safety measures ports for upkeep_ reprovision- Moreover a5 the Soviets prepare ana crew recreation Pre- to deploy new Y-class submarines vious patrols by Soviet sub- may be reassessing the marines in the Mediterranean military value of sending their had lasted less than two months diesel-powered units into the mid-Atlantic and mid-Pacific patrol areas Last year a submarine support group operated for nearly six mon ths off the west coast Until mid-1967 . E-class of Africa in a program to study cruise-missile submarines con- the feasibility of submarine ducted regular patrols in the operations from a floating base _ Atlantic_ Since June 1967 _ The group consisted Of a sub- patrol activity in the Atlantic marine tender and a missile has diminished; however , a supply and was assisted series of single E-class units briefiy by a survey vessel and has been almos t continuously two intelligence collection present in the Mediterranean ships_ Several other ships Some Of the submarines on re- provided logistic support Four cent patrols have also engaged submarine8 participated in the in other activities such as group S operations _ One of hydroacoustic research ana these-~a nuclear-powered unit-_ support of naval training ma- was away from home waters for neuvers _ J-class diesel-powered more than six months cruise-missile submarines ap- parently have been used primarily for peripheral defense In Once the new ballistic-mis - late 1966 the first of these sile submarines go on patrol units to ven ture into the the Soviets may make greater Mediterranean broke down and use of such floating support bases limped back to its base in the on the high seas F loating base Northern Fleet. Some of the ships would be vulnerable in TOP SECRET TRINE Page 6 SPECIAL REPORT 13 68 only ing they ship Sep ================================================== Page 11 ================================================== TOP SECRET TRINR" Soviet Patroi: AREe Submarine-Launched Missiles HPATEL HRE 1500 n m range 650 nurange ~(Covers alNUS) 100 @thomfjine 300 nm line TOP SECRET TRINE US OPERATIONAL WARHEAD DESIGNATION ioc RANGE WEiGHT REMARKS CRUISE SS-N-3 1961 250 NM 1,000- Carried by El and EII- MISSILE 2,000 Ibs. class nuclear submarines and by J-class diesel units. A few W-class diesel torpedo attack submarines were modified to carry this missile. Surface launched. BALLiSTic SS-N-4 1960 300 NM About Carried by most G-class MISSI LES 2,200 Ibs diesel submarines and by some H-class nuclear units A few Z-class diesel torpedo attack submarines were modified to carry this missile. Surface launched: SS-N-5 1963 650 NM 1,600- Carried by most H-class 2,400 Ibs nuclear submarines and by some G-class diesel units: Underwater launched: SS-N-6 Probably 1,500 NM 700- Probably intended for the 1968 1,700 Ibs new Y-class nuclear sub- SECRET marines: These 16-tube NO FOREIGN Polaris-type units first DISSEM went into service in mid-1968. TOP SECRET TRINE ================================================== Page 12 ================================================== TOP SECRET TRINE No Foreign Dissem wartime but ballistic-missile operation in the USSR. A navi- submarines operating from such gation satellite system cur- bases south 0f the Azores for rently being testea may permit example _ could remain on-station Soviet submarines to determine off the US coast longer than their positions with greater could units aeployea from the accuracy even in the most un- Kola area_ Cruise-missile ana favorable weather and sea con- attack submarines woula also ditions Hydroacoustic re- profit from mid-ocean bases search ships have conducted reducing the number of surveys in the past few years transits to and from patrol in areas of the Atlantic and areas Pacific where the Soviets might hope to detect Polaris subma- The USSR recently has rines ana in the Canary Island achieved several technological Basin ana Philippine Sea where advances in submarine support. may intend to operate their New and more powerful radio own submarines (TOP SECRET TRINE transmitters Serving submarines NO FOREIGN DISSEM EXCEPT UK AND on distant patrols are now in CANADA) * TOP SECRET TRINE Page 8 SPECIAL REPORT 13 68 long they Sep ================================================== Page 13 ================================================== ================================================== Page 14 ================================================== JFK Assassination System Date: 3/6/2018 Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY : LBJ RECORD NUMBER 177-10002-10105 RECORD SERIES NSF, CF, USSR; VOL. BOX 226 AGENCY FILE NUMBER : Document Information ORIGINATOR CIA FROM TO TITLE : SPECIAL REPORT-WEEKLY REVIEW DATE : 09/13/1968 PAGES : 1 SUBJECTS INTELLIGENCE REPORT DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICA TION Secret RESTRICTIONS Consulted; Mandatory Review Material CURRENT STATUS Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW 07/06/1994 OPENING CRITERIA COMMENTS DOC. #57 v9.1 21, Top

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