STRAUSBERG AIR DEPOT

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003000030003-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 13, 2009
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: November 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY &at x ----.-.---REPORT
TOPIC St,rausb rg Air hereof
EVALUATION.
DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAINED
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1. The air depot on Heg~armu~ral_er trF m was observed from 27 August to 21. September
and from 30 September to 2 Octo n r- 1953. The test stand for turbojet engines was
in operation at 8:4.5 and 9 a.m, on 28 August and at 9 aGm, on 29 August each time
for a period of two minutes.
2. The following incoming and outgoing shipm ate were observed at Strauubarg air de-
::ynt:
2]7 Auuatp Truck with traile loaded with small crates, probably con-
taming ammunition and truck loaded with four 200 liter IN
11 drum
two in vertical and two in horizontal position,, arrived at the depot.
AM Mt. Truck loaded with medium size crates and truce
loaded with medium size roug x crates arrived s.t the depot,
18e emir, Incoming shipments included truck 25X1
loaded with medium size rough orates and another truck with trailer
old iron drur:s, small and medium rough crates,, and some light-green paint
equipmnt, apparently agricultural machine.i..
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Se an~iaar Outgoing shi ant included tIu ea axis truck with one office,
wearing red-bordered gold epaulets and three 1M wearing red-bordered black epaulets.
The load of the truck was low and covered with canvas.
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of tr?ueklby about 20 soldiers wearing black-bordered blue epau-
:dot The trailer carried a total of about, 10 200-liter dry., The column left in
'am direction of the town.
Truck with an officer wearing red-bordered gold epaulets 25X1
left the depot in the direm on of the town.
1l Sept mbar. Ten apparently a truck chassis left the depot escorted
by truck with trailer. carrying fuel drums.
October., Trucks I repeatedly carried two turbojet crates, 25X1
each 2.75 meters long,., 1,5 . meters wide and 1,8 miters high to the depot from the
storage area located between repair ihoop and depot via Hegerm hlenstr asse. About
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16 such crates were moved to they depot, . while 40 crates remained stored in an
opon shed at the storage are;:. The turbojet engines had probably arrived by
rail during the night.
? October. True loaded with cabbage left the depot for Strausberg
airfie1ci. Truck oadee with rough crates. 60 x 50 x 40 cm) arrived 25X1
at the depot. Trucks Observed at the depot 25X1
Incoming shipments observed at ::trausborg railroad station included-,
10 S tom rQ Eight, > reonl three le vans and at least six
single-axle trailers with low canvas-covered superstructures were towed by trac-
tors to the depot. The vans which had' no windows were fitted in front with a ver-
tical tube, 2., 20cm high and 22 crm i.n d .ametsr, and with ventilation flaps in the
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?pR embF . Two grson three le vans as reported above were moved to the depot
by truck 25X1
1 ctober. Five vans and one trailer of the type described above were towed by
Strausber ; air depot was observed from 2 to 11 September yd from 21 September
to 4 October 1953. While the air depot and the adjacent we;.pon repair plant were
strictly separated previously , these ,..-security measures were recently lightened.,
Air force :,oldie: s for the first time were frequently observed walking to the
target range where, they fired their guns. The attitude of the Soviets soldiers
toward the f.errr~a.ns was extremely kind. Close cooperation between the air depot
and the airfield was recently observed. Trucks with air force soldiers frequently
drove to the air depot. Humors that the airfield was heavily occupied were not
The number? of incoming r?al?_shi.rrrr.ants was vary high. however,, since the trains were
mostly composed of boxcar? the load could not be determined. Incoming and outgoing
shipments at the depot i ne.. uded ;
yep m r,, Fifteen ra 3io trucks, fitted with a Canvas-Co tBred mast support right
aft of the driver l s cabin and ones two->%'heel generator car arrived at the depot.
"l went t ftr,, One turbojet engine arrived by rail.
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~ Sap era r. Truck ~ escorted 1?1 trucks chassis in the direction of Vorsstadt.,
A workman from Gruonau stated th-it the NAG plant at Sehoenegeide fitted such trucks
superstructures for radio or work shop trucks,, The number of chassis arrived at
the NAG Plants was aPparcntl_y similar to the. number of chassis leaving S rausberg. r
Sedan 0 left the depot with hit h ranking o ficers and truck mar- 25X1
kod with a large red cross entered the de-oot.
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ihsr? Incoming shipments :included 12 radio trucks with a mast support
.nd folding crank: handle at the right front cart of the vrehic1ev 12 two-wheel
, 3 troop carriers, l special purpose caterpillar truck, 1
e n rater trailers
two-.wheel trailer w~ i, h::d the length of a van and was 1.80 to 2 meters high,
l car with a braced tube ttirestle sim:"_lar to a tubular jig, and 5 or 6 turbojet
engines