RADAR STATION IN THE STEGERSBACH AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005400100004-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 28, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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28 October 1951,
PAGES 1. ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
REMARKS
1. Between 1100 and 1400 on 10 October 1954, the following observations
were made in the Stegerabach area:
No sentries were posted in front of the school building. A lieutenant
wearing black-bordered black epaulets and 3 EM wearing red-bordered
black epaulets were seen in the school yard. There was no vehicular or
personnel traffic. A double line extended from the school to the radar
station and there was a sentry box at the western exit of Stegerabaeh.
Two sentries wearing red-bordered black epaulets and armed with submachine
guns were posted at the sentry box. Local residents stated that the sentries
have been seen there since the establishment of the radar station. The guards.
had no connection to the demarcation line running west of the guard-house.
The demarcation line blocked the English zone from the Soviet zone in
Austria.
There were a Token-type radar set and a Dumbo-type radar set in addition
to a radio installation consisting of 2 masts of variouslne1ghts. The
Dumber-type not rotated in clockwise direction and made one rotation within
about 4 minutes. The sound of a generator was heard from the installation.
The wires, which had been reported as branching off from the public power
net on 16 September 1954, were telephone lines. Two cables each extended
from the radar station to the public telephone line at the road, to the
school building, and to cable which was apparently underground.
No vehtu]ar or personnel traffic was observed.
}fit. The report supports the previous assumption that the radar
station observed is an earls warning station of the Soviets.
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