BRAND AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002400140005-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 31, 2002
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: August 27, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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? EVPLUATION se? below , PLACE OBTAINED_
C ATE OF CONTENT 29 July to 16 August 1953
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DATE PREPARED
27 Aust 1953
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On the mornine of 29 July l93;
'truck with a holeting gear were being
unloaded from flatcars at Brand railroad station.
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On 30 July t no construction work was observed in the southwestern section of.
Brand airfield and in the billeting area referred to as Staedtehene Some window
and doors vere removed and the apertures were boarded up, The aircraft revetments
apparently were vacant and intact. Rifle firing was heard fronetheetereain
northeast of the Staedtchen. Individual soldiers wearing red-bcedered black epaulets
and a senior lieutenant with red-bordered black epaulets and artillery insignia
were observed near the temporary buildinEs,
3, after about 1 August several rail Shipments arrived in Brand..Billeting
equipment k food and large crates were trucked to the field. The previously
reported arrival of an air unit occurred as follows: At about 10 apme on 4 August
1953s- 15.MiO-15s with auxiliary fuel tanks landed at the field, at intervals of -
500 meters alternately on the right .and left half of the runwav The planes eama
from the east flying in 3 wedge formations of 5 planes each. From the noise of
25X1 aircraft engines, that additional 11iG...15s landed at the field
during the night of 4 August, On 6 August, 32-MiG-15s with auxiliary fuel tanks
were parked in one row on the dispersal areas at the southern taxiwayo Of then
planeee,25 were covered -with dark tarpaulins and 7 without terpaulins were parked
slightly separate from the others. .
Between 9 a.m. and 11 A.m. on 6 August. two IliG-15s without auxiliary fuel tanks .
individually circled the field several times, after taking off in an element. The
planes landed individually. between-noon and 6 p.m. all MiG-15e except for the
7 planes with auxiliary fuel teaks made two flights. They were out of sight
during the air activity.
25X1A
The airfield was again occupied by jet fighters in early August 1953. Since about
3 Angus% 141G-15s in fo;mations of up to 12 have been observed flying at daytime
and making individual fliehts at night over the Brand-Lieberost area. Intensive
air activity still continued on 16 August.
25X1A I The-M1G-15s unit observed at Brand airfield since 4 August 195.
could not be identified at first.I let s
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assumed that the unit iv the fighter regiment previously stationed at
Alt Loeitnewitz airfield
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