BRIESEN AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004600210003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2007
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 12, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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i 8s; took off &t. irtera:..Ls of about 6000 met.e:ra .nd rs mbls:i in a
slu_dren formation of three fli,,hts0 The aircraft practiced flying for
40 ninutes in the vicinity of tla : field! and then -1a;ided at ini.ax v^Is of
LJ00 meters,. All of the aircrrr"t el:ltrently hed 2 men in the
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gaan3rls station. Fetween 0700 : nd 12C0 on 15 jute . flying we rcticw
The 11m2Fs without auxiliary fu..i tanks rer2in3c; cioft for aLc,:'t 6u minu'i:es.,
Formations of 3 to 8 aircraft eech repeatedly took off at i.wervJis of
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VOC r..:lers and diasppeired. (h aircraft returne3 in fornz W^._ of 2 or.
3 nd. ]ordea at interva.Li of 1,W0 meters. On 18 arid 19 June, s formation
of 6 end 4 I1--28s :esFecrively ':,ook off herd :; ., The hn:, i7:.
r>Jt rnal on both drys shout 11103..
At 070 cr, 16 June, a siren sounded an clam cri sh,rtly cfter-ard s'i'.
rushed across the field toward the wood at the nort.-tern edge f the field
At the sere the, tb' tines o_ some I1?-24:= were started., b:c no airc'ra:?t
toes: off. ietween 080'0 i:nd 1200, 96 men of the ground pereonn ; , under 'he
conxrd of a major, a cetptein,shd 2 lieutenants practiced the attacking of
t7 rer:by area in Luchsee from the north and south; the area nes defended
by 76 men under the command of n officer. The former group rr_c armed with
cs:i ines, 12 submachina guns, 3 light machine guns, end hand grc r:ndes and
the 'utter group with carbines, 4 subnvcnine guns,. l light r:.act :.ne gur.ra:nC.
e :;ergo rumier of pane grenades.
srmLeg igns )earing inscripti ins in F:nglish and Frerch 1 ejt 1 1sced on
t'hc, Icadr_ l:,ading to the field. The English tent r_n: c:t 3;zr,,e of Lrembar's
of foreign military missions rn foreigners i;rohil.ited",
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