WIENER NEUSTADT AIRFIELD AND MILITARY POST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005500860002-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 26, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 17, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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Austria
wiener Neustadt Airfield and Ylilitary Post
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nAT PPrwaPPf 17 November 1954
3ENCLOSURES (Nb. & TYPE)
1. Between 0800 and 1400 on 16 October 1954, 38 I.iG-15s, 1 Yak-11
and 1 biplane were parked near the pyrotechnics plant at Wiener.
Neustadt airfield? The depression could not be reconnoitered. There
was no flying. The sky was cloudless but there was light haze and a
southeasterly wind of 5 km/h.
2. The flight control station was guarded by a sentry wearing black-
bordered blue epaulets. There was traffic by personnel wearing
black-bordered blue epaulets between the flight control station and
the barracks. L1iG-l5s and I gray crate were seen 50X1-HUM
north of the flight control- station between the flight control
station and the church. V'ork was being done on the MiGs. Occasionally
their engines were raced up. Motor vehicles parked in the area of the
eastern garage inst ' n included 1 mobile flight control station,
18 trucks includim radio truckP 5OX1-HUM
fire truck) Two trucks and 1. tank truck were parked
in front of the motor ve,,icle sheds. The eastern Ali gun emplacement;
and bunker area had been leveled and could no longer be distinguished. 3
Personrel wearing red-bordered black epaulets were seen at the southern
AA gun emplacement and bunker area. There was no change in the status
of the southern and northern rows of searchlights. Thirty-five fuel
drums in groups of five were seen at the place where an underground
fuel dump is believed to be located. A tank truck was filled by
means of a hose. Two van-like trucks were seen near a wooden hut about
100 meters northeast of the presumed tank dump. Two wings leaned against
the wall of this hut facing the landing field. They were about 120 cm
wide, had rounded ends and were painted green. Sixteen soldiers wearing
black-bordered blue epaulets practiced firing with pis-,.cis at the
target range. A pile of gravel and broken stones which previouly had
been seen just west of the target range north of the 'Niener Neustadt-
Bad Fischau road had been removed. About 100 meters north of this
point, two underground bunkers, one of them with one chimney, the other
with two chimneys, were seen. The antenna mast north of the southern
AA bunker area had been removed. The van-like trailers with glass
devices which were usually parked under the lean=to-roof north of the
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antenna mast with core~sriauev bracl.i rs located in the extei ei; ;,
of the northern row of sea.rc~ili"htswiere seen at the rlortrer-,
end of the northern row of :,ejirCtli'. '' ta. ;riSide t_ e ;-!ass dcv c.
Fw Ich rese:_.bled a trunkated nura :h i, eiL,':it
about 730 cm long were seen. On eaci side of t ;e two a1L(.fi
were fitted about 2 meters mart.
The lar.,.~s ire ''ii;red -)a;^a1~cJ to
the sides of the pyramid. For about an hou-, the la:' ~