NEW RADAR SETS AT PARNDORF AND WIENER NEUSTADT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001300200006-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2009
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: June 5, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This Document contains information affecting; the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
INFORMATION REPORT amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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SECURITY INFORMAT.ON
SUBJECT New Radar Sets at Parndorf and Wiener
Neustadt
PLACE ACQUIRED
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
NO. OF PAGES
5 June 1953
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. Four single rod radio masts, each about 5 meters high, stand on the airfield
near the road to Neudorf opposite the last houses of Parndorf village. There
is a small wooden hut in the center of the square formed by the 4 masts.
2. A radar set is situated about 50 meters south of the road to Neudorf, 500
meters from the aross roads in Parndorf village.
Sketch s
A van with a boxlike superstructure was parked near the set.
Parndorf
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3. Sketch of the radar set, standing approximately 40 meters east of the X-shaped
set in the northern part of Parndorf airfieldz
metal frame
_ metal rods affixed
to the wires
Wiener Neustadt
4. Two radar sets are located in the "Tritol" factory area, near the western side
of the fence. surrounding the factory, and close to some wooden huts. The
factory itself is 2 Kms. east of the Theresienfeld railroad station (Lat. 470511
200. Long. 16? 161 33" East).
5. On 26 January 1953, set I was standing in a N ? S direction. This set seems to
be of the same type as that located in Deutsch?Wagram and Parndorf, but larger
than the latter. It was not possible to determine the exact number'of horizontal
rods on set II9 but there are believed be four. The sets were seen from a
distance of about 400 meters.
Comments Photographs taken of the radar set described in paragraph 2
above confirm that it is a Knife Rest. 25X1
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