SCHOENHAUSER DAMM AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002200190014-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 23, 2006
• Sequence Number: 14
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC .,hoenhauser Dame Airfield
EVALUATION
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M n-TP A!~ AAfl.'PP`SSl 19 June 1953
DATE OBTAINED..
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REMARKS
1 o On 19 June 1953 , source determined that Schoenhauser Dame airfield which was
completely sodded was surrounded by a barbed-wire fence and bordered on woody to
the north, south and east. Mere were no buildings at the field which L, s ,o
guarded
2. At Wudicke railroad station, Soviet soldiers with Trlack-bordered blue epaule us
under the supervision of an officer with blue-bordered golden epaulets were un-
loading runway mats from a boxcar by means of a mobile crane. A total of 48D
piles of about 20 runway mats each were observed on the loading ramp. The .ze
of the runway mats was estimated at 300 x 80 cm. The piles were about 1 meter
high and were hold together by steel bands with holes at their ends in which the
crane hooked in when lifting the pile d Source furnished a sketch of such a pile
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E c ?en ,. It was believed that -the improvement of Schoenhauser Dar= air-field
was completed in late May 1953. However, the unloading of runway mats indicates
that an improvised runway will be established. For sketch of a pile of runww :y rata.
see Mmnex4
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Annex to
Pile of Runway Mats Observed at Wwdicke Railroad Station
on 19 June 1953
11at e? she surface of. the sheet-metal plates could not be
definitely observed. One longitudinal side of the plate
was straight while the other bngitudinal side dad grooves,,
Each pile consisted of about -? gray-green runway mats.
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