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XeAe7e Decmber 32. - page four =~ Nikolskoe on Ostrov Bering in the Komandorskie Ostrova. A third base for Soviet submarines is Petropavlovsk on Poluostrov Kaméhatka, Another base, but this one predominantly for larger ships of cruiser types is in Korsakov on the “outhern part of Sa&halin Island. *he number of Sa iet suimmarines at the three Northern basis alone has been estimated in late October at sixty, which would corr:spond to five flotillas at twelve submarines eache How much is lying in Korsakov could not be learned and any estimate would be mere guess— work. Still the best available intelligence proves huge activity at that base too. There are furthermore indications that a submarine base is being organizaed at Magadan. ‘he details on this are still lackinge- Each one of these basis is furthermore coupled with air basis for tig néw Tupelov 12 torpedo bombers of the Soviet naval air force. *hese twin-engined torpedo bombers are considered by Allied observers as being the best in theirlinese rhere are furthermore gradual indications that several Soviet unites stationed h&therto in ~urvpe, have been moved to the Far-Easte This is not only true of land forces, but also of the Soviet air forces he recent report on Soviet rocket planes,=which to best possible estimates will be the equal if not superior to the ones produced by the West by 1955, - calls again the attention to the fact that, besides Russian technicians, top German technicians too are working on the Soviet projects. Among the most dangerous, one should not Ingenéer DreA.Baade, who previously worked with Junkerse It & Baade who has constructed the recently produced proto-type of a Sovict jet beomber, which is the counter=part to America's B-47. The test flights are now terminated and the new bomber is entering mass production soon. Helping in this projett is Ingenieur Siegfried Guenther, who originally conceived the heinkel 178 German jet planes. “Summarizing all these rppoftts, one thing becomes absolutely obvious to the observer and cannot be repeated too often: all the moves of Stalin now are efforts to stall for time. They are made in order to perfect a situation of military superiority for the Soviet Union, which can come any time after the middle of 1955. 28.
