SOVIETS EVACUATE FOUR AIR BASES IN EAST GERMANY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700150027-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2011
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: November 13, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENINF CE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
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COUNTRY East Germany, USSR
SUBJECT Military - Airfields
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PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Brussels
DATE
PUBLISHED 14 Aug 1953
LANGUAGE French
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SOURCE La Libre Belgique
REPORT
CD NO.
INFORMATION 1953
DATE DIST. /3 Nov 1953
NO. OF PAGES 1
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
SOVIETS EVACUATE FOUR AIR BASES IN EAST GERMANY
It has been learned from reliable sources in Berlin that the Soviets have
evacuated four of their air bases in East Germany. All installations, includ-
ing reserves of fuel, have been removed from the Werneuchen air field and shipped
by rail in the direction of the USSR. The large jet fighter base at Neupeter-
shain, which a few days ago had 30 MIGs, has now been stripped of all men and
machines. The same is true of the two air bases in central Brandenburg: Fin-
sterwalde and Brandt.
The above information comes from sources in the East German underground
and has been verified by Allied authorities.
After the outbreak of the Korean war, the Russians based some 600 Jets
and a number of conventional fighter planes in their zone. They maintained
about 20 bases, of which at least 12 were suitable for use by jets.
It is reported that the evacuated bases have not been placed at the disposal
of the East Germans. This is undoubtedly due to the fact that the 10,000-man
East German Air Force has not been sufficiently trained to operate independently.
No reasonable explanation. has been discovered for this Soviet move, but in
any case the Russians still have a sufficiently large number of bases in the
East Zone.
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