ERFURT-BINDERSLEBEN AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002300330006-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 30, 2003
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: August 7, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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??f or rrai - :June 195. ,< no air activity was oh ;erved at ix M? incter f;be= a.X,rfield.
l:~ v ere parked
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a ath of tae moral Soviet officers, inciudinnrg two generals, L: spectsd the
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F-1 x3. 'r f c:r to 11, June, r o, ;.ir aativity Was observed at the f .ele . Work was -rein g done at
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.=it .0w 3O a.m. on 5 J '. r 9 twin--engine: .nono-olanes wit;r noso wheels and ;.owing cargo
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J a.r e.: took C.: 'T i ithol.,t. the gliders. Tine planes tow3 a cz.rgo l ders landed at 11.3t)
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I I f.: c rgo gliders were being loadel at the Field o All the pl nee
a: $ oa :e;e :_: ern t C cl ;.rec .ion of Weimar wad departed in the di ection of Haan erhau se: n..
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air landing exercises in the Thweingian a- ea were also rn.::de n
he aircraft involved took off from Brandid airfield.. As in 1951
.r Ciprs ware nrobrbly towed, by I1-1 -s which or-rived from m~titside
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