SOVIET ACTIVITIES IN WERDER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003400300009-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 16, 2009
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: November 19, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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8i, In March 1953, the Soviet construction staff in Werder also ordered improvement
work at Porchiia and Jueterbog airfields. However, the contract for Juetarbog
airfield was also cancelled subsequently. Construction work was also done at
Werue hen ai:-b. ield and at auxiliary airfield in the Buchholz Forest south of
Schwerin and Hahlvinkel, The latter two fields were built like that in Schoen
hau.se ? Dam and were completed in January 1953 and 31 December 1952 r ctivelyy
Additional alternate airfields of this type had not been under construction in
the Soviet Zone of Germany prior to July 19.53, Improvement work at Schorfheide
airfield which was carried out the Bauunion Braandenbur? was donee in three con-
struction stages. 25X1
9. Since 1 November 1953, a large number of dependents of the officers employed with 25X1
the Soviet construction headquarters in Werder have arrived and large-scale 2
repair work wan to be done in the officers billets on Phoeboner SU*asse in Warder,
l04 After 1 November 1953, the special construction bureau in Warder was charged with
all construction work at the 'Iorder restricted area, the :girder military posts
the air force signal center in Glindows the Brandenburg military posts including
Brandenburg-Briest airfield, and the tank repair shop in Kirchmoesor. Allegedly,
the spacial construction bureau was to be assigmd now missions after 1 January
1954.
11. Lieutenant Colonel Piminov (fnu) and senior Lieutenant Artamanov (fnu) respectively
were the chiefs of the Koch office of the air force headquarters in Werder and of
the Kech office at the Werder military post, Lieutenant Colonel Yi]in (fuu) was the
chief of the officers club on Friedrichshoehe in Warder which was completed on 7
November03
12. The second floor of the flight control building at Warder airfield housed the
offices of an air :force marshal and of three generals. One of the generals was to
be detached to the headquarters on 1 November 1953. The three bu.':.lclings northwest
of the athletic field quartered an air force si>;nail unit under the command of
Lieutenant Colonel Pismak (fnu). The buildings of the signal cores were surrounded
by a special barbed wire fence inside the airfield. All personnel entering these
buildings were accompanied by an officer., No transmitters or antennas were seen
on the roofs of the buildings,, The three buildings south of the athletic field
were occupied by an air force unit. On 14 Novembers a group of 80 man lined up
in front of the buildings.
13a Between 21 October and 19 November
Force commissaries for purchases In Warder:
trucks were used by Soviet Air 25X1
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Cgisas,rSs
Biryukov
Volevach
Gitun
Gorshkov
Toporkov
Maehkin
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3tr ishkov
Komar
Shurunov
Magazine 6
14. The following changes were observed in the comniseariess
Gorshkov waz transferred on 20 October and repL.ced by aslov (fnu) on 1 xlo -
vomber, while the Maslov's Comr:iissary was dissolved. Also on 20 October,
Strishkov (fnu) was rsplaoed by Lieutenant Gorshenkov (fnu) who arrived on
i November05 The chief of the central commissary (Basa) in warder, Majof Lav-
rentyev (fnu) returned to the U.$SR on 20 November, He was replaced by Major Spi.
liotin (fnu) who at present was deputy chief of Lieutenant Colonel Fedyukov (fnu)
in the main bureauQ nu still remained the deputy
of Major L?avren v, 25X1
15,, On 16 November 19539 a brawl occur; ed in the yard of the central coomrriissary between
Captain Sharovonkov (fnu) and Lieutenant Guzin (fnu) the latter with red-bordered
silver ep?uiets.z Guzin who had been refused home leave on the occasion of his
mother's death was drunk, He shouted that his father had been killed in action
during the war and that he had two small brothers and sisters, Final lY~ a third
Soviet officer managed to pull Guzin into a sedan and brought him to the main
bureau of the Basao Lieutenant Colonel Fedyukov (fnu) ordered the immediate trans-
fer of Guzin to the U3 R:,
16, Because of a reduced turnover, 20 percent i.e. 12 persons were disc: ssed at the
Hasa in t'erder0
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tae dependents of the Soviet officers were to return to the
Soviet Zone of Germany Meanwhile, many school books for children were purchased
at the Basa in Werder,, several insigni indicate the assign 25X1
mont to specific branches or the service, such as administrative and medical
personnels tank and motor transport troops, radio operators and personnel assigrod
to the administration of military justice.
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The tmitas carried poruo;nno who were probably detached or ' ra r1a=
Cos ~ n
forrod to a unit of the head" u rters of the Twenty" Fourth air Ar'r .
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Commissary S
T?ng tine 6 supplies the units at Bad Saarotiav
LlZgm2ent, Lieutenant Gi in is reported for the first tLmeu
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C :to Werder airfis.id is oectipied by the headquarters cC the Twenty-
h Air Array, The f=irf ield. is miniy used by courier aircraft,,
sup. lies the fighter corps headquarters in Wittenberg.
17 six lies the around attack corps headourixters in
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