DOEBERITZ AIRFIELD

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 16, 2001
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 6, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Prior to 15 November 19112, source observed the following occupation at
the air force barracks in Doeberitz:
Houses 3 to 7
Houses 8 to 10
House 11
Houses 12 and 13
House 14
Houses 16 `and 16a
House 19
House 20
House 22
Houses 23 and 2.4
Houses 27 to 31
Houses 32 and 33
House 43
House 44
House 45
House 54a
Houses 54 and 55
Houses 58 and 61
House 78
House 80
House 85a
House 86
Houses 102 through
106 and 109
Houses 107 and 108
House 110
Officers' hotel;
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Quarters of Captain Yrushnittski;
No changes;
Work places for five Germans and the Soviet Ketch
workers;
FM quarters with double-decker beds, recently
occupied bj about 600 soldiers;
Still off limits to source;
EM quarters with-double-decker bunks occupied by
about 140 men;
Occupied b:r about 130 men;
Each occuoiee1 by about 40 to 45 officers;,
Quarters with double-decker bunks each occupied
by about 140 soldiers;
Still off limits to source;
Billet of a colonel;
Office of the :17D lieutenant;
Quarters for about 140 soldiers;
Billet of Lieutenant Colonel Kazavittski;
Hotel;
EM quarters each for about 700 men;
Billet of the colonel '-?orking in house 33 * and
another colonel;
The western section of the building is oc,-.upied
by the former Zamolenko supply unit, distribution
point for Sta>.ken and Schoe.nwa.lde airfields.
Garage for O new trucks
EM quarters for about 100 men;
Still occupied by AAA soldiers;
Air force officers' billets;
Stioeniaker and tailor shops; photographic laboratory
assigned to the Hasa, only Germans do rked there)-
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2. The Elstal-distribution-Basa, also known as supply unit Zamolenko,
occupied the western section of house 80. From the spring of 1951.
until May 1952, this agency was headed by Captain Zaraolenko, silo wore
blue breeches with red stripes along the outer seams, golden epau-
lets with blue background cloth and a red ribbon around his cap.
According to E -errn Wilke, a German supervisor employed at the Basa,
Zamolenko.was arrested in May 1952 because stolen goods were found
in his luggage..Zamolenko was then replaced by Captain Krushnitteki
who wore silver epaulets on blue background cloth but otherwise the
same uniform as Zamolenko. Px s supplied by the distribution Basa
included the Elstal Px, which was also loc6tr;d in house No 80 and
which was previously managed by Herrn Wilke; and the Staaken and
Schoenwalde Px's, These Pais settled the accounts at the distribution
Basa which nicked up textiles and other consumer goods at Weider in
trucks Foodstuffs were delivered from
Nauen.
3. At 11320 a.m. on 29 October 1952, there was an explosion at the fuel
dump on the northern edge of Doeberitz airfield. The fire brigade
fought the fire with foam extinguishers for many hours. German Kech
workers at the field learned that two Soviet soldiers by connecting
two non insulated electric lines caused an explosion at the pumping
point of the fuel dump which had a capacity of about 25,000 liters.
The dump burned out., 'Three other fuel dumps of the same size near the
destroyed installatiof were not effected by the fire. The German Kech
workers were to check which parts of the fire ravaged installation
were still usable,2
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south at the engine test site of the field measured 295 x 165 x 190 an.
The crate was not marked by letters. Two of the sides of the crate were
marked b -,r a wine glass branded in the wood; this practice is usual with
boxes used for the shipping of glassware. The upper section arA all the
side walls of the orate were dismantable and were kept in place by
screws. The two longitudinal sides were fitted with three handles each,
probably to facilitate the handling of the crates on their skids.3
On 6 November, three large fuel tanks being dug half
into the earth in t e northwestern corner of the field, where a patch of
woodland had previously been cleared, allegedly for the erection
of new buildings., The fuel tanks were apparently not yet filled. The
clearing was large enough to .accommodate 20 more fuel tanks, which could
be filled by means of hoses from the railroad tank cars parked on the
spur track.
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At 11:30 a.m. on 13 November, crated bombs, ab^ut 120 cm long and 35 cm
in diameters were being transloaded from four boxcars to trucks and hau-
led to a newly built wooden shed west of the entrance to the underpass
at the field.
From 1 through 15. November, there was no change in the AAA protection of
the field. Between 9 and 9:30 a.m. on every day during that period,
four trucks each loaded with about 20 artillery soldiers.,
proceeding to the shrapnel proof aircraft revetments. Between 1 and 1:15
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8 Source observed that two antenna wires extended from the sntenna
rod of the IL.los parked at the field to their =' elor .as:amblles
A plexiglas disk about 20 cm in diameter was seen. 8n the upper
side of the fuselage about 30 cm forward of the root of the ver-
tical stabilizer,,
9, At 7 a.m. on 11 November, all Kech workers except six employed
at the air force barracks installation were given notice of
:i=smissal effective 15 November. The workers were actually released on
the date mentioned,
100 There was air activity at the field on 10 aad 14 December? On 10
December, source observed that the second story of building No 14
quartered 1'2 soldiers and that house No 15 was occupied by 70
sergeants who probably attended a training course.
M On 5 November,, source observed a radio installation about 500 meters
southwest of Wustermark and Pn c t of Hoppenrade-Astprmark road. The
installation consisted of a msat 6 to 8 meters high, another mast
4 meters high, a low wooden building and three trucks one of which
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^ 12, On 23 November, source obsprvea `,?oat construction work was continued in
the northwestern corner of the field which had been cleared of trees.
Wooden sheds 15 meters long and 6 to a ?;ters wide had been built
into the earth in such a way that their roofs merely projected above
.the earth walls on its longitudinal sides. Each shed was fitted with
vent pipes on its roof and double doors on its front and rear sides.
South of these sheds there was another shed of the same dimensions
which was not dug into the earth, Source noticed that the entire
area was to be fenced in,
13. On 16 December, source observed 57 IL-10s at the field o At 12:30 p.m.,
3 IL-10s circled over the fid d while the AA guns craeticed aiming at
the planes. Trucks were
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21W 14. There was intensive air activity at the field between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m,
on 2 and 5 December. 5
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stationed that are somehow connected with the air transport unit
in Staaken. This assumption is supported by a previous report,
aeo-ording to which house No 31 also quarters a parachute unit
of 40 to 50 men detached from Staaken.. Since available information
indicated that the-Soviet commissaries are an organic part of
troop units, it is possible that the target=.tow unit in Schoen
walcb is more closely connected with the air transport unit in
Staaken than was previously assumed, Lieutenant Colonel Kazawittski
is the commanding officer of the ground unit which has
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2. Commence The explosion in one of the fuel du s was mentioned
previously by the same source.
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a jet engine? The data furnished by source indicatca that the
measurement. of these crates vary slightly. The observation of the
crate confirms previous information furnished by the same source.,
according to which a repair shop for jet engines with an attached
engine test-stand is located in the northeastern corner of Doebe-
ritz airfield.
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previously.
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5. C gmnt, D eberitz airfield was previously occupied by two
ground attack regi ients, Aff:.sr 26 December 1952, oneof these re-
iments moved from this field, presumably to Alt Loennewitz. See
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