PAPA AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00926A002400050027-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 23, 2006
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: August 3, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL fN7ELLIGENCE AGENCY ~ REPORT N0.
INFORMATION REPORT
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DATE DISTR. ,,3 Aug 1950
Papa Airfield
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFE CTINC THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATESWITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT 50
U. S. C., 31 AND 32, AS AM EN,DE D. ITS THAN SMISSION OR THE REY ELATION
OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS PRO?
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~.. The airpoat at Peps has been d~eloped by the l~ussians into the greatest and
most important militax?y air 'base +~urixxg the past few months, probably because
of the excellent central location of this place. Construction, with the eX-
caption of the cleanixlg up around a fe>~r of the minor- buildings, has been com-
plated and there is now stationed at the airport a Soviet air fleet with great
hittia~g capacity. ,
~. Ts+ro concrete ru~ays with great wei,g~at-carrying capacity have 'been built, pa~al-
lel to each other, and three hundred meters apart in a northwest direction, fro
kilometers long and two hundred meters wide, The runways are completely fini~
aa~d the bomber and righter ai~lanes of the Ptzsaian fleet have taken possession.
T'he personnel of the f~s~ian fleet have been living in the cit until the early
spx?ix~ 'became the buildings were not inhabitable. Recently,
that three barracks have also been completed and therefore there is no ~??~er
hindrance to the Soviet fighters moving into the airfield.
the Soviet fleet garrisoned here is not a small one. At the present time,
there are 2~+0 planes at Papa in readiness, of which a majority consists of fighters
but these are quite a few twin-motox?ed light bombers-and other fighters. Tux?bo
fighters and four-motored bombers are nat in evidence at Papa. .
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