ch 28 OCTOBER 1969 DIASIR 301-69 no roman 1600 EST COPY SPECIAL INTELLIGENCE REPORT 73 SUMMARY OF SOVIET REACTIONS TO US OPERATIONS DECLASSIFIED 9 Sec SANITIZED 00w 3 P yI j THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS SENSITIVE SPECIAL INTELLIGENCE REQUIRING EXTREME CARE IN HANDLING THIS DOCUMENT IS BEING DISTRIBUTED TO A SELECT LIST OF ADDRESSEES REQUEST ADDRESSEES DISSEMINATE ONLY TO THOSE INDIVIDUALS HAVING A NEED TO KNOW EXCLUDED PROM AUTOMATIC REGRADINO DOD DIR DO- NOT APPLY 921305 SANITIZED COPY UMBRA SUMMARY OF SOVIET REACTIONS TO OPERATIONS #9 The following summary is one of a series of reports to be issued as information concerning Soviet to US Military Readiness Tests becomes available As a general rule Soviet activities considered unrelated to such tests will be reported in other DIA publications 03 6 UMBRA IJRJI3RJX cow SOVIET REACTIONS TO US OPERATIONS Soviet military activity which may be in re sponse to the present US Military Readiness activities during the period 261600 to 281600 EST October is as follows It is assume lthe Sov ets would have 0 ained an initial read-out by yesterday of film from COSMOS 302 which was deorbited -- on schedule on 25 October In the Indian Ocean area a Soviet F class conventionally powered attack submarine and two surface ships previously part of the group located near Socotra Island have been sighted in the southern Persian Gulf 465p DETAILS - SPECIAL 28 Oct 69 DIA Intelligence Summary Page 1 RA Emm- SANITIZED COPY 2 Strategic Rocket Troopq Normal activity SPECIAL 28 Oct 69 DIA Intelligence Summary Page 2 WEE-T- UMBRA Gauchos 4 171% EXEMPT p 5 of 1 pp Tactical Air Forces Normal activity Military Air Transport Normal activity 4 5 Air Defense Force Normal activity 6 7 Ground Forces Normal activity 8 Naval Forces In the Indian Ocean area the F5 class conventionally powered submarine DON class submarine tender 995 and MAYAK-class small refrigerated cargo ship ULMA were sighted in the southern Persian Gulf early today They probably left the Socotra Island area about 24 October No port visit in the Parsian Gulf area has been announced but the presence of the submarine in these confined waters suggests that one is scheduled The guided-missile light cruiser guided missile frigate DLG tank landing ship oiler and four space event associated ships apparently remain in the Socotra area In the Sea of Japan a KASHINeclass DLG continues to shadow two US destroyers In the Atlantic OKEAN class intelligence collector LINZA has departed her station off Holy Loch and by today was believed to be in the area south of Ireland where USS YORKTOWN has been operating SPECIAL 28 Oct 69 DIA Intelligence Summary Page 3 UMBRA 5'0 EXEMPT 05-30-3 y p 7'of pp WM BRA I The Soviet Mediterranean Squadron is reacting to the presence of US naval units in the eastern area As expected it is continuing the increased surveillance that was initiated during NATO Exercise DEEP FURROW Many units of the Squadron have been and remain in eastern Mediterranean ports or anchorages Several however are monitoring US Task Groups north and southeast of Crete Two surface combatants remain in the vicinity of Cyprus while another appears to be leaving the western Mediterranean possibly to shadow the USS SARATOGA Task Group Three class escorts that joined the Squadron on 26 October have continued a southward transit from the Aegean Sea and were nearing Alexandria today Two surface combatants and a surveying ship that are scheduled to return to the Black Sea are off the Dardanelles A total of six units three surface combatants two W class conventionally powered attack submarines and the surveying ship are scheduled to transit the Turkish Straits northbound by 1 November None has been scheduled southbound before 1 November The Squadron presently consists of 40 units 17 sur- face combatants 10 submarines including a J-class conventionally powered cruise-missile unit two intelligence collectors and 11 other naval auxiliaries 9 Naval Fleet Air Forces Normal activitY 10 Diplomatic Normal activitY 8 $15 12 Reconnaissance Activity Normal activity SPECIAL 28 Oct 69 DIA Intelligence Summary Page 4 WMBRA Ebb 05 03 5 Part Asian Communist Countries There is 1 no ev ence nk the activ ty with increased US readiness tests TOP SECRET UMBRA NO FOREIGN USE DISTRIBUTION SPECIAL 28 Oct 69 DIA Intelligence Summary Page 5 UMBRA Ill-M 06-03 5- d 9 7 1                     National Security Archive    Suite 701  Gelman Library  The George Washington University    2130 H Street  NW  Washington  D C  20037    Phone  202 994‐7000  Fax  202 994‐7005  nsarchiv@gwu edu