PARNDORF AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002300500008-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 18, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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0,60 9 and 17 July, 1953 pla u , f.
? redo ?f 77) airfig _ m ; n ' 1.7 July, , air craft , took off
y ividually _'frtd In ry `ormation. of twos.., and, twice, fo atiolll of
bu s"4 No night flights were made.
-' (O 4V/_ 36 w The Officers .behaved well toward the populatior3. 'Cir-JAsted
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men were not pea-m teed out of the f iel g'f ter . r~~;rrs
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The- ov et A Force C f racers at the field& allegedly CauucaF,; :as, and
(JF a.inians4 spoke German. Similar observations were made at Bai i ocsiau
I~the local inns up to 11
rai _r?ad, at Pa:-ndorr` airfield: 34 MiG-15s, I single-aDgine p;k-any:
with" radial engine, I bipl aye, 1 single engine plane with radial
--E.n ine, and 5 M1G-15s, All planes pointed with their noses to the north.
No air activity was. observed. There was a.5/10 overcast at an altitude
of about 2, 000 meters, a southwesterly wind of : a bout 3 km./:n f and good
visibility;_ ,
Between 3 a m. and 3 pIa, on
23 June, the following a!rcraf ;.w-3.
parked from we .?L to oast, with the westernmost wing north of
The AA gun emplacements at the western edge of the field were .rded
by soldiers wearing red-bordered black epaulets, and occupied by 4 x 37- ^i
AA gun . About 500 meters east of the railroad station there. were a
vacated .A.A gun emplacement and unoccupied bunkers. The fuel r:u.mp was .
guarded by soldiers with black-bordered blue epaulets. In a >=::?~ i 'n to
the large _containers, there were small fuel containers each abot-t
3.50 meters long and d cm in diameter
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50 No change was observed at the unguarded tent ps about 700 meters east of
the railroad stntiona Hear the camp were 4 rollers, 6 tractors and 8 plowsf,
as well as shovels, pick axes and spare handles. JA van-like truck and two
trucks were parked near the antenna mast with a cone-shaped bracing located
about 250 meters east of the railroad siding to Kittsee 449/X 98), a
van-like truck was also. observed near the antenna mast with a cone-shaped
bracing about 2 k east of this same junction,
6, Between 8 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. on 30 June, 18 1kiG-15s and 2 single-engine
planes with radial engines were observed at the field. There was a 4/10
overcast at an altitude of about 3,000 motors, a northeasterly wind of
3 1fh,.and good visibility. No air activity was conducted,
70 The AA gun emplacements on the western edge of the field were still
occupied by 4 A.Fr guns of about 37- caliber and guarded by soldi.e r
with red.-bordered black a .aulets0 The . b gun em lacemonts 00 meters
east of the railroad station were not ocest. i.edo
tank truck were parked in front of the kitchen and mes shall.- A )RU). crane,
2 small iron ladders and 6 gray boxes., each 1.5 x 1.5 x 2 meters, were
observed near the aircraft repair shop north of the fuel dump,
8. Excavation was under way at the tent camp about 700 raters east of 4,h
railroad station. Twenty man were engaged in shoveling plowed-up earth
on a heaps Near an excavated Pit, 4 trucks and 3 tractors were ,Wks d.
9.. No changes were observed in the radio installations on. the northwes' ern
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edge of t7he, field or on the two antenna masts east of the railroad si
to Kittseeo
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About radon, food was hauled to the tent cup on a truck.
No activity was observed at the field except for the excavation work near the
tent camp and individual soldiers who were near the antenna masts east of
the railroad siding to Kittsoe.,
Cora~ rt.. Parndorf airfield is occupied by a Soviet fighter regiment
which is assigned to the Northern Ftr Div at Aspern0 The purpose of exca-
vati,in work at the field has not been determined.
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