ORANIENBURG AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004000470010-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 19, 2009
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 18, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC---- Oran1 ! Airfield
EVALUATION
DATE OF CONTENT.
DATE OBTAINED ~_DATE PREPARED__18 ,arch 195 m..,.
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1. Around noon on 15 February 1954, about 20 women wearing 1lt i Air Force
uniforms and carrying suitcases moved from 0ranienbkar Y railroad station
to Hans Schemm School in Weisso Stadt, Orcnienburg.
20 Between 1 February and 1 ?=march 1954, the airfield was still unoccupied.
On 18 February, 1 officer and 2 groups each of 10 man, wearing black-
bordered b1.ue epaulets and armed with rifles, marched .frog; ? eisse Stadt
toward the airfield. On 1 Merch, a march column consisting of 2 officers,
wearing black-bordered blue epaulets and ca.rrying ce ses, and about
15 EX. armed with 2 light rachine guns, submachine guns and rifles, were
observed on the same road. About 6:40 p.m-, firing with rifles was heard
from the direction of G?-rr;endorf railroad station and a --red-ground . , nsa1.
was seen from that direction.
3; During the second half of Feb nary, work wa , being done by the Vf M 0rari.en
burg on a transformer and the switching device in the tra n::forrner hoi e at
the airfield. Two electricians of the Bauunion Leipzig still worked on the
electric light instillation of the fuel dung at the field. The five,quar-
tering blocks in '.eisse Stadt were guarded by gar force sentries,
4~ During the second half of February, about 150 men were quartered in the
Weisse Stadt area. No military activity was observed there.
Co=iexatn_r :ages to the runway at Oranienburg afield have postponed
the acceptance of the field and its reoccupation.
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