1. BAUTZEN-LITTEN AIRFIELD 2. HUSARENKASERNE IN BAUTZEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001200420010-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 5, 2009
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 20, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2009/03/05: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA001200420010-1
EVALUATION
oivm OF CONTENT
. iVfE OBTAINED
REF ER ENCES _:-
GES-.- .
Eusarenkaserne in Bautzen
-ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)--__...
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1,> On 7 March 1953 e, es total of seven er a:a ra tedw ?~ and two concrete mixing
employed at Brautzen Lil tten airfield. Pipes with a di eater of about 40 cm z r r rF :^ efl
In a ditch west of the Purschwitz--Neucurschw.itz roach Work on the constraction -Lhz ',
brick vall. on the south side of the field wa. :interrupted.
Prior to 9 March,, no aircraft were stationed at the field and no air activity had b ,e:; ,
observed in the four weeks preceding this date,, The field was not ee ..ceabla 'because
of field railway tracks laid out for earth work at the installation.
A wire fence was being erected alon...r the igi.ederkaina4'ursohwitz road on. t.;e ru, h
of the field. No construction work was' observed on the south side of the
the hangar west of the flight control station had caved ir
U11 174,,,,9 in the northwestern section of the field was being leveller.. Three 25X1
excavators and about 50 field railway cars uere used for th=.,s -purpose , T-W., wr?s: P~?aas
nearing completion on 9 Nor h
The Husarenkaserne in Bautzen still quartered VP personnel wearing blue borderew
epaulets and Soviet Air Force soldl.ers. No VP flying per. son nel. was observed in.
Bautzen in early I1arch
5., On 19 March about 250 workers 'acrr, ohser7ed lei:=rir4.;
an equal number of workers entered the installation, apparently at the end of a eh
Excavators were in operation in the northwestern . corner and the northeastern aectier,
of the field ? Excavation work 4 apparently- for the ester i shment of a fuel d.t.inip, seas
also wider way in the southwestern )ortio.n of the field. Tvo fuel tanks were neon
there Scaffolds were being erected on buildings measuring about 50 x 15 sriete-cs,
apparently hangars,, on the south side of the installation, east of the fur ych,411-z-
Neupuraohwitz road. No aircraft were stationed. at the fielld,,
transmitted previously Available information in-dmi?.cates ti.a.t t
flying personnel of the 3d Vk' Air Rag moved 'co Kemenz and Cottbus .e rents of the
pertaining ground unit and the signal school probably rei aiued at the ii ~.sr;rer?;.. eerr e>
in Bautzer
CLASSIFICATION S1ORi.'T/
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