DOEBERITZ AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002300110008-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 16, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 12, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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L Between 12 and 17 July 19530 no aircraft were stationed at Pooberitz airfield.
At about 6:30 o.me on 15 July, source observed that the piles of bombe which
had been stored at the field since the disturbances and which were still seen
on 13 July, had been removed. Five S3viet officers with pilot jnsignia and who
were recognized as belonging to the unit previously stationed at the field
entered the NSKK Ka. erne on 15 july. The Ari gun emplacement on the northwest-
ern edge of the field was occupied oa 13 July and vacant on 15 July.. 1
2, At about 6 p.n. on 17 July, the buadings Nos 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 55, 56,
and 57 of the barracks installation appeared to be unoccuoied, while the
buildings Nos 54, 54a, 58, 610 79 and 81 were partly occepied. 2 The kitchen
in buildings Fos 80 and 82 were not In operation. At 6:30 p.m, a group
consisting of an officer and 22 FAT with red-bordered black eptdets and artillery
insignia marched to the quartering blildings on Bindenb rg Flats where two
sentriee, one with black-bordered bine epauldts and the ether one with red-
-bordere black epaulets, were posted. Individual air force officers also
entered the billeting buildings. 3
3. The area about 800 meters dietart from the Dallgow railroad station, directly
along the railroad embankment was probably an ammunition- durp,?as trucks with
red flags were repeatedly observed eatering and leaving the area. It was
rrounded by a 2.1-mater close wooden fence with one watchtower on each of the
southeastern and soAWestern corners. The area contained a hay star ge shed,
about 50 metere long, mad a small shed for a Diesel locomotive. At the entrance
gate, there was a guardhouse which was occupied by a soldier'. with red-bordered
black enaulete and artillery ineigniee Source made location and layout sketches
of the dump. 4
lent, Since late May 1953, Doeberitz airfield has no longer been
occupied by an air unit. The ground attack regiment and the superior division
headquarters previously stationed there was transferred to Brandenburg-Briest.-
A,wOrkshop for jet engines which is equipped with engine test stands is located
in the northeastern corner of the field. Personnel are probably- quartered in
the barracks installations north of the field. ?
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