BRANDIS AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000600520010-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 12, 2003
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: February 20, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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An exercise which involved, tanks and lasted several days i4as completed
on 23. January, the t. '~:
were cseaeerve r :e;si gg z,)roug. i o__r,nz en route toward ane .a.. Two armored
reconnaissance cars, 4 wortars, 6 AA g m.s,, 6 AT guns, 2 field kitchen,-,
2 Jeeps, and 1 sedan., and abort 25 trucks were use observed passing
through Polenz, F777
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? 22 Janruary, there was no air activity at the field
Twenty-four ground attack planes were parked in front of the two eastern
hangars in the northern section of the field. The area adjacent to the weY,
which was also suitable for the a,rrangene-t of aircraft oculd not be ob-
servedbecause of a ground wave. The Winding field was covered with snow
chile the nv!,,,ray was clear and shiny. According o a wood workex, a new
group ; rrivsd at the field a short time before.
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The fol.lowIng observations were Wade at Brandin airfield between 21. and 2t
January 1953:
23. Ja a a?.?% an IL.-1O plane circled once over he field. The vi-
sibi.l..itl, was limited to about 2 kn.
22 a;,9urr , the sky was o srast, and there was a. visibility
;7 7 Ar our 1:i -l.Q circled over the field ?
Janua r? There waa no air activity.
a4 3anuax a, flying was. practiced by two IL-10s.
There was a 1r a &.1 mid - s 9 ility of 2 lm;.
25 Ja,n , .x? 'v rcin:1 attack planes l?nes practiced
flying. ,There was the same weather as on 24 January.
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ary. _There was a 6/1C? overcast and vi.Uibilitlr of 2 to 4 1w;. Six
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U-2 -s with red and gray rarkings circled over the field
One lL,--10 plane was observed aloft
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er? n Theee c bmerva .ons confirm that Brsa.~Y~`_t: s w.irfield.
-;_a r c p ed by gr our d attack and transport planeso O. ae g saund attack
g rnent and one air transport regiment are believed to be statioxa
I I rep, he aircraft of the three squadrons or. the tx?Tvu,po-Rt reg me at
are v, ke b?r red, ra and yellow strfpe : on t 4e.11, ruddtsr asset : c:.
? ane s+ previou.sly reepcrted that arr mi..ts started
ears. exercise with combined a a.pons in the Brend s are:.,3 on 13 :aU Rr 1?
`' erc s is a,:~n{.;iy ? p1eted on ::1
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e~ AL- n e o . klo :Jt'i tads Tank Div while the motor velAicies observed belong to
Dl-iv, Therefore,) it is passible that. unj~43-oi ;,ete -coQQ. .
d . t on ?. oar"tic ,i a -tted in the exercise.
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d :r`o d a0'-,tad o re-Invent from Dessau was transferred to Brandin on 26
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