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Friday, 23 November 2018

Russian destroyers sighted at Lepaya, Latvia according to a CIA report dated 29 May 1953

An item reported that in the Lepaya area several times Russian destroyers were sighted at sea. Occasionally were this escort destroyers which never entered the port apparently in contrary to coastal destroyers like spring 1952 in the outer harbour of Lepaya. In 1952 was a coastal destroyer fitted out with a rounded bridge and a crane aft several times seen arriving or departing the naval harbour.

Source
The report was published on www.archive.org, document number CIA-RDP80-00810A000400450006-5