BRANDENBURG-ARADO AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004100310010-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2009
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 7, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. The following air activity and aircraft were observed at Brandenburg- ? 25X1
Arado airfield between 27 February and 10 March 1954.:
2 Izeorue:y. Thera was air activity by 11-l3P.
28_FZzuaim., No air activity 1,2as conducted., Seventeen ground attack aircraft
were parked on the eastern edge of the field.
areh. Between 8 a.m. End 5 p.E.. there was air acti7itv at the field.
he ground attack aircraft from Driest airfield apparently -,-acticed with
frnri ivenfin sti-ofie.10
At $:30 p wiaen air activi,ty was ciiscontinusd,
la-d0o were counted at the eastern edge of the fiald.
2 Vccpch. Between 8 a.m. and 413o p.m., there ,,,7as air activity.by I1-10s,
fint, fornntjons of twos and threes.
)1:11rgh,.% At 7 e.n., 12 Il-lOs individually taxied to the southern gdge of
the field and were parked there in one line with their noses pointing to the
north, At 7:30 a.m., the aircraft individually tazied to the take-off point
at intiervals of about 5 ninutes and subsequontdy rade indivicual flights.
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4)4auh. Between 7:30 a.n. and 5 p.n., there was conparati.vel7 little air
.:,.ctiva.ty by aircraft vh:ch ilaw
f_ndividually and in formations of twos and *Ghroes. At 6 o., ., 12 I3-1GE. were 25X1
parked at the eastern edge of the field.
During the early norning, 13 I1-108 were obsorvoq. at the eastern
edge. At g:20 a.m., 4 i1-Ios took off at intervals of ebout 2 minutes. At
9;45 an., 4 Il-lOs aprroac:aed from the north and landed at the field. Between
9 a n ant 11 e_m., a PO-2 circled over Brandenburg. Between 3r0,30 p..7-L. and
530 p.n., individual I1-10s wore observed aloft. The veathzr was hazy.
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