MAHLWINKEL AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001800210008-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 8, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 8, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTI 'Y East Germany __..REPORT NO.-
TOPIC _., Mahlyinkel Airfield
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EVALUATION., 1------PLACE OBTAINED__. ...~__
DATE OF CONTENT- 16 April to early MaY 1953
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1, Prior to :5 April 1953 no~change was observed on the status of Mahlwinkel airfield
The grass sown on the field had not come up possibly because of excessive use of
fertilizer. The surface of the field was so firmi that truck;. did not leave any
traces, After several days of dry weather, however, the field was covered with a
layer of dust which was blown off by strong winde
20 Si 4pr .l.,, the Soviet detail has been qu:..u tered again in the hurt`ers- lodger
Apparently more personnel were quartered at the field than in the preceding year;
Captain Laurin (fnu) was again observed to be the chief of the detail. 1'he rail
shipment from aaxony with the Soviet detail also carried 6 tractors aid severa.
trucks, as well as 20 civilian workers, who allegedly belonged to the Dresden 3auun o1
The civilian guards at the field were replaced by So-ef ets who guarded the billet; a xL
the field and patrolled the area at irregular intervals,
3, I ,easy. s source observed that the western part of the field was X Orly covered
with grass. Apparently no grass had been sown in the eastern section, he Soviets
spread fertilizer over the entire area of the rield in early i aye Large clouds of
dust developed at the field in dry weather in spite of the grass cover Source did
not_?pbsprve that construction material arrived at the field. -
On 27 December 1952, the soviet construction detail left Mahlwinkel
airfield which, subsequently, was guarded by two civilians0 The field is apparently
serviceabb: for conventional aircraft in spite of defects in the surface of the field0
It is possible that these defects are to be eli'a hated by the newly ,,rived
construction detail.
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