CIA-RDP96-00789R000200070002-1

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8712-B
/NOFORN
DIA (DT-S)
26 Oct 1987
SUBJECT:
Free-flight Activity for period of 23 Oct - 31 Oct
1987
Viewer 011
US-flagged vessel hit by (apparent - see
sketch)
Silkworm
missile with US retaliatory action taken against Iranian missile
launching sites.
Viewer 079
... ... ..
Viewer indicates no perception of hostile activities and
describes the period of 23 Oct '87 to 31 Oct '87 as a peaceful
time.
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Viewer 018
Viewer describes an
attack against a "sloping (Iranian)
framework" by a missile from an aircraft bearing a red star.
As
50%
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a secondary perception, 018 perceives US
Vessels (ships) as
firing cannon fire (no further details) .
Viewer 003
-003 perceives no activity during the reporting period.
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However, 003 beheld the smoke-blackened superstructure of a US
(appearing) frigate
as the result of hostile activity occurring
on 3 November 1987.
In
mid-November attack aircraft of
undetermined nationality seeking largets of appartencity
Viewer 099
.....
--- 099 perceives the presence of a mine dropped from a small
Iranian vessel at night.
The mine causes an explosion to a
medium-sized US warship acting as a lead vessel, (to -other
vesselste
Indications of (US) show of force through precipitated
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air activity in the area of the Persian Gulf.
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