VIETMANNSDORF AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004000140005-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 19, 2009
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: April 21, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title it, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The xreproduction of this form is prohibited.
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1. Generals
During the period from 18 to 28 January 1954, owing to severe frosts and incle-
ment weather conditions, very little progress was made on the development of
this project.
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
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2. New Constructions
a. Fuel Installations The fuel depot has now been completed. This installa-.
tion consists of four fuel tanks, each with a 12 meter diameter and a
height of 3 meters, and each fitted with a shallow conical roof. The tanks
are set one meter below the surface and are surrounded by a reinforced
concrete blast wall which is 3 meters high. The walls have a base thick-
ness of 50 centimeters tapering off slightly to a thickness of 30
centimeters,
East Germany
The supports for a new two-meter-high fence are being erected around the
entire fuel installation.
b. Excavations A new excavation, approximately 200 meters long, 8 meters
wide and 2 meters deep, has been dug out parallel to the railway siding on
the opposite side of the fuel installation.
c. Holes in Main Runways A fourth hole, measuring approximately 1* meters
by 2 meters, has been cut out of the runway at a point approximately
25 meters east of the intersection formed by the eastern center taxi
strip and the runway, This hole has been only partially excavated with
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the center portion remaining intact. Of the remaining three holes.
situated in the main runway, each of which measures approximately two
meters square, one has been shored up with rough timber,!'-,"";his hole is now
approximately 60 centimeters in depth, with approximatoly20 centimeters
of the sub-soil having been removed.
3. Clearings:
A new strip, approximately 80 to 100 meters in width, has been cleared
approximately 400 meters north of and parallel to the main runway. This
clearing starts in the extreme north-west corner of the project and is pro-
gressing eastwards, and at present is approximately l1 2 kilometers in length.
4. Pers onne1;
a. No changes in the number of German em to ees working on this airfield have
been made The present total of men, all 25X1
members of the Bau-Union Brandenburg, does not exceed 300.
b. No Soviet Air Force personnel are as yet stationed on the airfield.
c. The total number of Russian personnel lies between 100 and 120, all
enlisted men wearing black/red shoulder-boards without insignia. These
troops are engaged solely'in patrolling the airfield perimeter fencing
and maintaining occasional internal cycle patrols. This detachme t
of troops uses a two-axled ZIS truck for toner
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purposes.
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