MERSEBURG AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004501100006-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 20, 2007
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: June 24, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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EVALUATION
DATE OF CON?T#'N T
DATE OBTAIi'4ED
REFERENCES-
REPORT
1. The following air activity and 2ircraft were obs:arvod as, airfield
between 12 i1 and 29 !4ayM
in three forgatIons of four aircraft eac o This was the first e:a_ ? activity
by IUG-15s in Hey. Luring the afternoon until night 'ca l 1, flying
was practiced in elerents of two.
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This is UNEVALUATED
~:nd 6 J $~s Only local, fli. g 25X1
_......,_. hts were made by two 7a aircraft
throughout the day, while, during the first days in Iiay, no air actIvii; etas
observed. 5
About 1200, 12 ;1ai.G-15 l nded 25X1
31_t _12 and 1 i;a Flying was Practiced in s or :a%ion of ~: c a nc: fot i
atan altitude OW to , _nnn to 60 r_iaiiltt-, .; dusaticrn~ ')FX'I
Air-
28 Jjnv& Loce_' flying wss started at nightfall and still con .:i_rn
t~ Sti I/?irte:
?_6 ? .yo During the noon hgurs, local individual flights were node by 2 F,i G..15s(,
,-' A Lit V`r,G l2 GlyJ %7 +
the nuim er of I iG-15s was increased by 15 e it craf- to a tog l of 38 : _153
and Ua-I.G..15s, while, on 9 a y, only 1$ 1iiG-l5s and 2 single-angine a .rcra:'t,
probably Yak-lls, were stationed at the field.
to~ There we s no air acts Evity.
117 May Between 1000 and 1100, aircraft were again observed elof- 0 25X1
20 Twenty-eight NIC15s end U--I1iG-15s were counted on Uhz landing field.
22 Eetween 1100 and 1200, 8 MiC15s landed at the field coming from he
east, On this and the following days, there was no air acti :ity clthouggh the
weather was cloudless.
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.21o aircraft were observed at the fiald except for tF; ;{. t-lor''.
planes. Source asaui ed that the and U- 1 .G-15s had az-a. ~i .. _'~
the field during night flying activity.
During an increased V.m-ml, r of , ovi t dependent; we obac'm-edi i rsc
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