RADAR INSTALLATION AT KLEINBERNDTEN

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 30, 2005
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 25, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE.AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECRET
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Radar Installation at Kleinberndten
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DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
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This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized persop is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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1. Location:
a. Theprev .ously observed radar set was still in its position about
250 meters north df Kleinberndten. Just north of the radar array a.barracks
had been newly erected. There were five box-shaped vehicles in open-sided
hits along the track running parallel to the main road. (See sketch in
Annex I.)
The installation. was located in open country. The site was bound towards
Kleinberndten by a barbed wire fence. The approximate distance between the
barracks and the last shed was 350 meters.
2. P} scilion of Set;
The radar sot coiisiated of what appeared to be two parabolic reflectors
mounted in a horizontal and vertical position respectively., The reflector,
placed in a horizontal position, was supported above the ground by a solid
object approximately two meters in height. The vertically mounted reflector
seemed to rest with its lowest extremity in the center of the horizontal.
bowl. The reflectors were of open or girder construction, approximately
four to five meters in diameter. Inside the reflectors was what appeared to
be a grid-like system with 'knobs' or insulators at the intersecting points.
Multi-wire lines or cables fanned out from the top of the vertical reflector
to the base of the set.
3.
DD ee, tien of Aerials (See sketch in Annex II):
Each of the four aerials consisted of a square wooden or metal, frame, support-
ed above the ground by one mast approximately four meters in height. The
frame was mounted in an upright position, resting with one corner on top of
this mast. Two cross bare were fixed horizontally to the upper half of the
mast and were connected by what appeared to be a single wire to the outer
corners of the frame. The aerials had not been in position on 20 September
1953.
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4. Yalticlea:
The four aerials were erected in the spaces between the five sheds situated
to the east of the set. The sheds were open on all four sides, and each
contained one truck of the 'box' type. The aerials were not visibly connected
to the vehicles.
5. Activity:
a. At the time of observation the radar sot remained stationary - the reflectors
did not rotate or tilt up or down.
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b. Two men were seen to be walking between the set and the adjoining sheds.
c. Two two-man Soviet patrols were observed patrolling the outer perimeter of
the barbed wire fence. Five enlisted men, wearing padded winter clothing, were
seen walking in Kleinberndten. There were no Russian troops billeted in the
village. No other military equipment was observed in the vicinity.
6. C muni r ti pn__s:
An overhead telephone line approached the rear of the site from a southerly
direction and continued in a north-easterly direction towards Wollersleben.
The line consisted of two pairs of bare copper wires, each wire carried-by a
separate insulator fixed directly to the poles. The average height of the poles
was about four meters.
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