FINSTERWALDE AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000300540009-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 8, 2003
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: January 27, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Fine erwald.e Airfield
EVALUATION
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DATE OBTAIV-REFERENCES
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18 November to 16 December 1952
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EG?a RED 27 January 1953
ENCLOSURES (NO. & 1YPE)
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On 1b December 1952 a
at Finsterwalde airfield were :30 p.n.,
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?_ V On 7 ? December, an AA gun emplace. ent with six guns was observed west of
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3. The following observations were made at various objects in the town:
hJg t_, l Q On I December, a German employee carried out an errsnd for a
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the major was addressed as "commandant" as he was the deputy to the general
who was still on leave Allegedly, the major resided in the same villa of
Object 1 as the general.
pblect This three-story building is 200 meters long. It appeared to be
occupied to capacity as all of its windows were lighted at night on 29
November and 3 December.
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Ob ec j. A truck was observed there 25X1
on 20 November. No ra o trucks were parked there.
? Ij ct 8.:t was still vacant and u3nguar. ded on 4 December.
Qb ect, On 18 November, I driver wearing red-bordered
black epau1.43tts, was observed in a German motor vehicle repair shop. A
mechanic who has been employed in the workshop for?- several years said that
this c*w wa:3 used by the district commander, a rajor whio had his office in
Object 9. the buildings of Object 9 at nightfall on 30
November and December brad determined that: buildings a and b were fully
occupied and continuously guarded by two sentries; buildings c and d each
had one lig.-1ted window upstairs, but the lower sections of buildings could
not be observed; building e had Unlighted windows upstairs and was not
lighted downstairs; buildings f and h were occupied to capacitya3
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All 7' except those of trucks
wore .red-bordered. black epaulets, wore black-bordered
blue epaulets.
5 At 10C a ,,r on .3 Doceeiber, there was no air activity at t e ~
2 'ielr o Prom:.
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J to 300 sol(?i~:=rs were cleaning the runway w: ;h birch-br`ocr'~s,
L:ht c~.YSVa.s-
cove. er Fe-7s were parked along the eastern flying la.nca Three additional
wore obe,er? xed ji:.st north of the :,econd hangar 7: `t7;' the ea 3t
lane
canvas.-cohered jet boy.,,-bens ^f both tuTes :.pere rar?kee it :Front r the irc. Senn
ha.nt-rars tl
6, .,Lc 37-r v A gur-,s were observed in the l -fin e r.place;nent in the eastern
socti,-'.n of the field on both sides of the spur traekm The bucker s of the
Al`s man erplacerient were heated. One sentry wearing winter clothes and
arr;ed with a sublachine min mas observed at each g n. Two wooden 4-wheel
tank duraries, each 1 r-titer long-,.6 0 cm high and 50 on wide, were. observed
next to a gun, west of the sp-a r track, F -e trucks and, an n5 s AA Kurz were
rked in the fenced-:gin area north of the buildj.n with two towers,."
7. r'etwecn 30 dove} .sex' and 14. the Lol owinr. surrly shipr,ent;s were
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Jecnber
Railroad Cars
Cargo
3
1 tank car
265 hecto
liters
Velt?n
6 gondola care
coal.
:flei twitz
23 gondola. cars
coal
Klettwitz
5
3 boxcars
flour
Cottbus
8
1 tank car
200 hecto
liters
Tel Non
10
1 flatca:A
1 tractor
Klotzsche
12
1 tans: crux
200 hecto
liters
Velten
14
3 boxcar;,. f
lour
Satzkorn
On 14 Decey ber, rim of the boxcars were shunted to the airfield and one
was shunted to the. loading siding of the oonsrmaers bakery which supplied
the Coviots.5
B. The following obsorvzations were made at the field between 5 and 16 December-.
Dsc 4Toor 110 air activity was obs ed at the field. 'There was
a
clo'se'd cloud base and the weather r s mostly hazy or fogy'.
10 December? ; P'ettwreen 0, a,TP;,, and 3 p."-n, flying was practiced by jet bombers
two of which circled over the field +, th e end?;d landing g .rs