TUTOW AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003500630001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 18, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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EVALUATION__ OBTAINED
July 1953 to mid of -,,lecember 1953
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_REPORT NO71
'DATE OBTAiNED_
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END OSURES (NO. ? TYPE)..
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18 January 1254
1. Construction work at Tetoe. eiefield had been scheduled to start on .
20 July 1953. This target date, however, was postponed by about two .
months because the paver eupply could not be guaranteed. The required
aluminum wire having e. cress section of 95 square ram could not be
delivered before around med-August 1953. Upon discontinuation of the
work on Rueeen island conetrUction material arrived at the airfield.
2. A German employee with the construction staff at the airfield stated that
the Brandenburg-Bauunion, ehen taking over work at Tutow airfield, withdrew
workers from other construction sites for Tutow. Of these workers, about
50 percent more in the meantime dismissed or transferred to other
construetion sites. At the beginning of December, only about 200 worker's
were still erployed in. Tutow. Allegedly, there were no more funds for
1953.
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. From the beginning or 1953 o late September 1953, the Bauunion Wismar
had been charged with con-;;;euction work at the airfield. After October
the work was then continued by the Bauunion Brandenburg by order of the
Pinistry for Reconstruetien The construction designs were made by an
agency In Stralsund. The e)estruction orders were given by the Soviet
conetructicn staff in err which was represented at Tutow airfield by
a Soviet major who had junt recently arrived in Germany. The German
construction superinteedees was Herr Pfeil (fnu) who had previously been
employed b the Steel eorke and rolling mill in Brandenburg. His deputy
was construction supormteeeent Tanz (fnu) who was transferred frcm the
Dauunion Winar. Clerieal Jerk was done by Herr neer (fnu) who had formerly
been the chief of the ,Ity-orfice in Werneuchen. On 10 December, about 200
nen were employed at the niefield. The number of workers was to be
increased to 2,000 by ::,he and of the first quarter of 1954.
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4. The rummy wYdch was 2,200 meters long and 60 meters wide, was concreted
at both ends and the ;joints letween the concrete slabs were filled with
etumen. The concrete cover was 20 en thick. Fourteen concrete slabs
each 6 nets long and 4 meters wide, were laid side-by-side on the
runway and one slab, 4 eatery wide, was laid at both sides The ratio
of nixture for the concrete was as follows: 200 ilters of water, )50 kg
o cement 1,080 kr of gravel, and 450 kg of 15/30-type chippings. The
eiddle section of the runway, which had been planned to be built in 1953,
could not be concreted alleredly because of a thick water vein, but is
to be completed in 1954. A oreeial drainage system for the runway was
under construction. lxcavatien work had been started on the taxiway along
which also hardstands are to be built. ruch work was still to be done on
the removal of the debris from the old foundations and destroyed buildings.
pczurcptt The inforratJon contained in the present rerort on
construction work at Tutou serfield is known from previous reports.
Work will probably be resured on a large scale in the spring of 1954.
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