GROSS DOELIN AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006300590006-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 2008
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: March 4, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Some of thw workers at Gross Doelln airfield were transferred to ot}2or
construction sites since the weather ham ernpWwt wwk
Gross Doelln. About 600 men remained at On i 'IfM
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engaged in cleaning and excavation work. !M all
charged with the dismantling and over at Y/~N. ft is
January 1955, the construction staff st Nw f6sM aim ar"t"
governmental officials to arrive in order to discuss regulations for
the bad weather period. It was envisaged to temporarily discharge the
construction workers during the frost period with a 60 % pay.
2. Concrete work on connecting lane A/B on the taxiway to the hardstands
near the Klein Doelln tgettlement and on the hardstands was completed
i- her 1954. Not all of the joints between the concrete slabs
Mrs filled by 71January 1955? Construction work on buildings
frt r't started.
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addition to the field near Q~wrfa t No to be built.`
Controls by Soviet sentiies, I`elft been rather lax for quite some
time, have been considerably it ift.t since the beginning of 1955.
an airfielc, near Lehnin in
5. The number of workers at Gross Doelln airfield was reduced because of
the anfavorable season. Workers were continuously detached to other
construction sites, such as Eggesin, Pasewalk, Querfurt, Zeitz and
Merseburg. Dredgers, steam and diesel locomotives were also transferred.
Concrete mixers and spreaders were shipped to Neubrandenburg for
overhauling while some small Delmag-type detonating rammers were
transferred to Lauscha or Laucha. About 600 workers were still employed
at the field around 18 January 1955.
A narrow-gauge spur track was laid from the workshop area between the
runway and taxiway to the new workshop area west of the intersection of
the Vietmannsdorf-Gross Doelln road with the road that begins north
of the headquarters building and extends toward Grunwald. Another
narrow-gauge spur track was laid from the new workshop area along thek l
Grunewald road to as far as connecting lane A/B. At this point, the
latter spur track was connected
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the connecting lanes, The new workshop area was located west of
the Vietmannsdorf - Gross Doelln roaen both sides of the road which
leads to Grunwald. The shipping.section indluding the filling station
and garage were located close to the road to Gross Doellsn and the
administrative barracks were to the south, on the other side of the
road. A new clearing was being cut into the wood from the
northwestern corner of the workshop area toward the northern end
of connecting lane A/B. Construction work was started on a wooden
cement shed north of the administrative towasaift west of the
shipping section, The shed had a reotaneWLW 3 meters high,
U\ with a flat roof. The floor was about 5 an abift !ie graded ground.
A narrow-gauge railroad track ran along ?1 ?tIS shed.
Prefabricated barracks and workshop sectiris *=e being hauled from
the old workshop area to the terrain where new workshops were to
be erected. The cutting of trees was disco'inued in the new clearing
along the northwestern corner of the new workshop area. The cleared
lane was about 250 meters long.
7. A spur track was being laid in the area east of the ammunition ddump
presumably in Jagen (forest sub-district) 115. A portion of the
railroad embankment had been raised a long time ago. Work was now
resumed. About 300 meters of rails were laid from the shunt switch
toward the southeast. Work was conducted by the Arbeitagemeinskbaft
Thueringen (a collective of Thuringian firms). The exact course
of the spur track could not be determined..
8. Renovating work on the headquarters buildings was almost completed.
Only the kitchen and the two southern buildings were occupied. The
building northwest of the kitchen housed the construction staff and
the building north of the kitchen housed the Soviet guard personnel.
9. The ammunition dump was surrounded by a fence and was permanently
guarded by German personnel. The gates were closed. In October 1954,
when the installation was observed for the last time, the sheds were
vacant and there was no electric equipment except for a lighting
tliapn. At the southern exit of the dump was a transformer house
from whf an overhead line extended toward the southeast. an ;
February, no changes were observed outside of the dump. No wosit !*
apparently being done in ties there were only thee
of sentries in the snow.
10. Three million eastmarks wenp at flap* slotted for bricks required ft'?r
the scheduled buildings sou "A'fi tithe headquarters buildings. Most
of the bricks were to be supplied by the Zehdenick brickyards. During
the last days, bricks again arrived at the construction site.
barracks which had been brought along by the construction staff were
to remain at the airfield, h ile the quartering buildings of the
Bauunion were to be transferred upon completion of construction work.
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1. Comment. During the period from late 1954 to e4rly February 1955, 25X1
only preparatory work for the new construction season was done including
the transfer of the workshops and the laying of narrow-gauge spur
tracks for the transportation of construction material.
repeatedly been reported.
Comment. Lehnin is located amt 15 km southeast of Brandenburg. No
in ormat1on ham been re$eived incl " ~s #s ~tt of an airfield
near - Lehniu. The eete tli + of an eJ r. field near Querfurt has
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