SCHORFHEIDE AIRFIELD)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002200290014-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2005
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: August 12, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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runway and that the connoctin; lanes were straight and branched off from she
runway at a right angle at :surveyors' Pegs 33 and 81. 25X1
had also not been Planned.
CLASSIFICATION Sti0R T/COWROL ?- U. S. OF ;zGIA S ONLY
1. beveral employees at Schorfhoide airfield said that, according to a rumor. t
construction staff and the German workers were to be transferred from the field.
Soviet engineer units were to contixlue
wor at the field.
2. the ruftwa:r with a width of 80 meters and a
concrere cover or cra were to completed by 30 September 1953. A confe-
renCe held on 1C) July betweer. the German construction staff and the Soviet
construction headquarters resulted in the decision that the construction
office will remain at the field even after the completion of the runway.
3. a total of 1,576 workers were
4.
Schvrfheide
ems oye at the field on 15 June.
On 11 July, concreting on the southern strip of the runway was completed
while ;reding was done and concreting was started on strips 6 through 11'
work c$r the runway will be completed by 1 October 19'53
which is the fixed target date.
5. In early July, grading work was underway on the taxiway south of the rurrzay
and on the communication lanes between the runway and the southern taxiwak~r.
The scheduled course of the lanes could be clear seen as the strinn wam
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the lanes were o 2-21 meters wide and their concrete cover 20 an, Click.
there was a distance of 360 meters from the southern
o 'e of the runwr{y to thoimiddle of the taxiway which ran parallel to the
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6. on 4 July, a water conduit of two pipos, each 18 cm in diameter, was
completed from a lake to the southern edge of the runway area, with two
pumps being in operation at the lake.
7. The workers at the field learned about the riots in Berlin only after thfy
left work on 17 June. Work was discontinued between 18 and 22 June. Aftal,
22 Jtuie. work was resumed but at a considerably slower rate than prior to
17 June. The construction staff threatened.all workers who did not resu,
work up to 23 June with discharge. However, this threat was not realized and
all workers received their pay except for the days of the strike. Alle;;Mly,
negotiations were held to decide whether the workers who rei .neck at the
construction site were to be paid the separation allowance for the days
involved.
8. Up to 10 July, strips 1,2, 3, and 5 of the runway were concreted while
concreting work on the other strips was only started. In order to accell:rate
concreting wore, additional mixing machines were set up and 25 Hungarian
dumpers had arrived for for which new cement storage facilities and an
approach road tothe runway had to be established,
9. The course of the taxiway was cleared of trees and the timber was hauled
away. Uprooting work was still being done in the western section, while
grading work continued in the eastern section. The ground was tampered
a 2-ton concrete block. No other equipment, such as automatic or hand rts,
was used, allegedly because of the high operating costs.
10. Inferior work, such as painting,was done in the newly constructed build ?;ge.
One building had alr4:zdy been occupied and the other buildings were expe