DREWITZ AIRFIELD

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005600830006-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 6, 2007
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: December 3, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. ?o air activity was observed at DrewiTz firflelfF on 17Oeti i. between
1A0O and 1600; -on 7 Oat~eber betevegn?1400 azi ).615on 23 October between
0915 and 1445. or en'31 qptobe, L954 M atreraft? were sken.'oh ?thr
and in the extension of th$ rwceWay.
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No radio or radar installations Were. dbs' rved in the ' vicinity of the field
3. No AA gun emplacements were seen.
4. The field c,Rritti-bte be-.obeerVedsfrom tAhe-syy,theastern exit- of Drewitz.
171oods obstxuatfl ' l -jd.ew 16?+4he-4f#1d. fib on ..other Gads
.. 1. temporary railroad stop was est~r> erpte of the
field. Some passenger trains of t C t -Guben line s opped there.
6. Construction work was started on Jitional buildings each about
60 x 10 meters in the billeting .pouth of the field rth of
Jaenschwalde. The foundation wall1e completed. 2
7. Between 0915 and 1445 on 23 October, about 30 trucks and tank trucks
were observed in the southeastern section of the field near the
three-story barracks buildings. About 15 trucks and 5 sedans were
counted near the main guardhouse.
Comment. It is believed that Drewitz airfield is still occupied
y e Aeroclub No 700-and the Technical Base No 302.
;Jost of the statements on the installations at Drewitz
see Annex.
a ie have been repgrtQ previously. For layout sketch of airfield,
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Annex
Drewitz Airfield
The lower and upper layers were applied in sections 4 x 7 meters in
staggered arrangement, the joints were filled with a kind of cardboard
and then filled up with tax.
Legends
1 Barbed wire fence with concrete pillars
2 Runway, 2,500 meters long 80 meters wide;
Layer of gravel 15 cm thick
Lower concrete layer 15 cm thick
Upper concrete layer 15 cm thick
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6 Two hangars, V6od6n structures, Z4 metes ,lo and' 8 ?te'tex'"8 *wNe.
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N~.3 Taxiway th d4perst1. areas{ northwestern section not yet completed.
Width and 20 met s, aout#,eastern section in front of flight control
stati 40 meters. ,he dispesal areas wete about'44tere ikn diaptex.
4 Flight control building 20 meters long and 8 meters wide. A tower
3 x 5 meters and 12 meters high at both ends. 10 5 Two garages, each 30 meters long, 10 l etdl+s? we with f3,e.t roof.
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%ach hangar has 2 sliding gatIp.. ?
7 Brick hangar 24 meters long and 8 meters wide.
8 Three-story headquarters building, 60 meters long and 10 meters wide,
2.5-meter-high rod antenna on top.
9 ' Administration building,,b60 meters long and 10 meters wide.
10 Six thre%-etorrr barracks bui lings, each 60 meters Thne and 10 meters
wide. Each story `h&d f6?reoms, emh r*oip could iidid 4 men.
11 Fuel dump with epur$tracly 5 filling stations for tank trucks along'
approach road. Five.holes,each 4 meter deep, 8 meters wide and 12 meters
long, were excavated. Three containers were installed in each hole,.
Each container had a lengthgbf 12 mete= and a diameter of 2.3 meters.
The fuet dump ?was .fenced in.
12 Con6rete roads witb,.turni.rtj aprons. The roads were 6 meters wide and
had. a.2,-cm *concrete cover.
and 1 barracks housed it WO -stw*~ .?;
16 Six two story brick buildings, each 30 meters long and 10 meters wide,
occupied ,by officers and female nembers 9f the KVPL.
17, T*o=story culture house, 89, minters long and 20 meters w4j.
18 Eight three-story barracks buildings, 60?metbrs'lohg anda'IO metege wide,
same capacity as `item 10; 6 buildings were c'om~'1eted And oeou$ed ,by
officers, ikependth tr, "the- N northern buiildinge were still under
cone~L ;on.'
In culture house .or adqiz atrati.ontulldifi.gwotihl wader oonstrzuction,
larger than buil4ir s item ho`18: ' O*;
20 Cantonment for 6onstrUotioa'workersla3 8 barracks` were used as 4uarte s
15 Side gates with wooden guardhouses.
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14 Main gate with brick guardhouse, 10' meters?k1on8- and. 4,.eeters wide.
13 Asphalted roads.
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