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Friday, 22 February 2019

Italian OTO shipyards building tugs for the Soviet Union according to a CIA report dated 7 January 1949

An item reported that the 6 tugs built by Odermo-Termi-Orlando (OTO) Shipyards, Muggiano/La Spezia, Italy for Soviet account were lying in Ligurian waters waiting for a Russian ship coming from Sakharin Island which was to transport them to the Soviet Union.

An second item reported that the Soviet Union was negotiating with the Odermo-Termi-Orlando (OTO) Shipyards for the building of 25 tugs similar to the six already built by this shipyards at Muggiano/La Spezia, Italy.

Source
The report was published on www.archive.org, document number CIA-RDP82-00457R002200470010-9