1. BAUTZEN-LITTEN AIRFIELD 2. HUSAREN KASERNE IN BAUTZEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000700610006-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 21, 2002
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: March 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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!iutzen -Listen Airfield
Husaren Kaserne in Bautzen
fi E"VALUATiON v,.__.a_ LACE OBTA1NED_5
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1 In early January 1953, five nobile c. xcavators ,sere or:ploycd at
Litten-Nieupurschwitz airfield, The two hangers on both sides of the
- l i ;h.t control station near k lomettr irarker. 4.0 on the Baschuetz?-
Meupurrchwitz road were Steer recona.tructiona On 30 January, the
two-meter brick wall built along thr; Baschuetz-Neupurschwitz road
from kilometer marker 3.3 was complc ted almost as far as Neupurschul.tz
j:t ap'ceared that construction work e.t the field was delayed by
unfavorable weather conditions e There was no air Activity at the
_nstallation on 26 and 30 January.
2 : tt January, the Husarer. Kaserne in 33auxtzen quartered Volkspolizei
personnel and about 200 Soviet soldiers a Fasts for an electric line
'ere being set up at Intervals of 30 meters along the fence around
he installation.
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~., From 11 a.m. to 2 pm. on 23 and 25 January, source observed about
15 singles-engine planes over 1yoisswa.iser.. Source le., nod that
thee planes had .coins from Bauv: en
On 30 January, no air activity was ohser :ed at Bautzcn-Ii.tten
airfield,, There was no char p e in the status of the ;dangle-story
tern or:?er,y bu ldingv., which were. half conrpletedo Two excavators
_ i'e ii operation A brick wall from two to three maters high was
rader construction on the southern border of the field, along the
i3 chuiet ,-Neupw: sch~, itz ro cdo The Frilck a:L tz=Paschue z road was
d aoiat: ed off-limits by sigrnboards ' en .ettered in several land cages .,
Construction work was observed east ,f the z'urschwi v.-Neup ,schi .tz
6 On 30 January, source observed very e'.ittle activity at the Fusaren
i,aserne, which was occur pied by an es vir^ated 60 to 80 V. P. The gate
on Kollwitz Strasse was gum ded by P soldiers, who ,?ore blue collar
patches and were ex mad with rifles. .+"~.t 12 < 15 p.m., two fercnle VP
. a xibrers who wore blue collar patches and silver cross bars on their
o ulets left the installation. Air activity was last ob:ierved at
tie field on 10 January. As the occupation of the barracks i.nst llat 1 r
a'apeered to be very light, source believed that the Imit previously
.3- tionethere had roved to sore ot.V e"r place o
~c . m3rent . The resort indicates that construction work at
1 autz =n-~stl;an airfield na;v have necessitated the transfer of the
3d VP air :rog nent, It &--,pears that :t least elements of thl,s
roginen-t moved to Kemenz, w hero a coy.sidarab?y larger ntn he of
,tOxcraft has been observed since ear. y Feirua..ry 195: -
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