DOEBERITZ AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006900650002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 10, 2008
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: April 27, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY,
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Doeberitz Airfield
REPORT
EVALUATION
DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAINED
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ATE PREPARED 27 April 1955
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East Germany N F'0
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1. Richthofen Kaserne 25X1
10 March. The temporary quarters in buildings Nos 15 and 16 of
Richthofen Kaserne in Doeberitz were occupied by a new unit of about
300 men wearing black-bordered crimson epaulets.
About 20 soldiers wore flying suits. About 20 trucks of the unit were
parked in the yard of the installation. All of the motor vehicle
numbers were covered except for No C 1-22-15. No weapons were seen
with the unit. About 120 officers, 1,250 EM and 35 women wearing
uniforms were counted while marching to the messha_il on 11 and 12 March.
20 March. The new unit was no longer observed. Its present whereabouts
was not known. About 20 air force officers arrived in the barracks 25X1
installation for the first time.
30 March. About 250 soldiers including about 30 officers, all wearing
black-bordered blue epaulets, arrived. Various fellow workers who were
employed in the installation for years recognized many soldiers who had
apparently been quartered in the barracks installation 2 or 3 years before.
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Around 30 March about 250 men had arrived.l
3. Observations made at Doeberitz airfield
Between 14 and 19 March 1955, about 36 I1-10s were stationed at the field.
The aircraft had allegedly arrived by air from the direction of Nauen.
Them had blue eller hubs, a blue stripe on the rudder assembly,
An ambulance belonged to the unit. 25X1
Formation f ying was practiced daily by approximately 27 aircraft which
no new personnel had arrived
000 men.
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west and returned approximately after 1 hour. After the flights,
the aircraft were parked in U-shaped revetments surrounded by earthen
walls about 3 meters high. There were 35 to 40 such revetments mostly
in the northern and eastern sections of the field. During air
activity, a large radio truck with a rod antenna, about 6 meters high,
on its roof was observed in the southeastern corner of the field.
Between 28 March and 3 April, no air activity was conducted nor were
any aircraft observed at the field. 2
4. AA
Between 14 and 18 March, during the air activity by Il-10s, about
12 light AA guns on 4-wheel-undercarriages were observed at the field.
No details could be noticed from a distance.
On 19 March, the AA guns were no longer observed at the field.
5. Air force units in Doeberitz
Major Zaotkin (fnu) and Captain Panfilov (fnu) of Unit Vasilyev ,ere
in the headquarters room in building No 59 at about 1400 on 5 April
and at about 0830 on 6 April. Lieutenant Colonel Ivanov (fnu) was
observed building No 19 on 4 April. Kraiyevoi (fnu), chief of the
workshop as not present on 4 April. He.was replaced by Major Bobrov
I (fnu) wh ore black-bordered blue epaulets. The quartering buildings
south of Herold Platz still belonged to the workshops. 3
6. Observations made at Doeberitz airfield
4 April- At about 1320, 45 IL-10s 25X1
were parked in, in front of, and between the revetments on the 25X1
northern edge of the field. There was a 1010 overcast and good
visibility. No tactical symbols were rioted.
At about 1330, EM wearing black-bordered blue epaulets werenengaged
in erecting a radio installation on a meadow about 400 meters northeast
of Hoppenrad, on the eastern side of the read to Wustermark. Five
trucks with equipment, 1 generator, 1 medium tent and 1 steel mast were
observed on the meadow. Personnel were laying a branch line from the
overhead line. The detail belonged to Doeberitz.
6 April. A sizeable number of IL-10s was observed at the field.
7ajor Krazavitski (fnu) was responsible for the new radio installation
in Hoppenrade.
Comment. The arrival of personnel in Richthofen Kaserne and 25X1
NSKK Kaserne is connected with the transfer of the GA Regt from
Brandenburg-Briest to Doeberitz. The unit with black-bordered crimson
epaulets which was temporarily stationed in Richthofen Kaserne is
unknown.
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2. Comment During the exercises by the 1st Mech Div, aircraft 25X1
of the GA Rogt in Stendal (blue tactical symbols) and of the GA Regt
in Brandenburg-Briest (yellow tactical symbols) were located in
Doeberitz. The information that Major Krazavitski is responsible for
the radio installation near Hoppenrade supports the assumption that
the GA Regt from Brandenburg-Briest is located in Doeberitz.
Krazavitski is known as commander of the OATB which was 25X1
previously located in Brandenburg-Briest.
Comment. The names and assignments of the officers mentioned 25X1
were reported previously.
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