The Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range

Summary

This three-page Intelligence Information Report, marked confidential and not finally evaluated, concerns the Sary Shagan weapons testing range in the USSR, with information spanning November 1972 to November 1973 and acquired in Germany from a former Soviet citizen. The summary states that the report provides limited information on the range, including facilities, work crews, security fencing, the regional headquarters (V/Ch 03080), and a warhead checkout unit (V/Ch 03142). It also covers System 75 [SA-2] and System-300/Aldan (ABM-1 GALOSH) warheads, rumored laser research, and an unidentified aerial phenomenon. The record was released by the CIA as CIA-UAP-011.