MAHLWINKEL LANDING GROUNDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A037100040001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 21, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 6, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

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This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of, which In any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
COUNTRY - East Germany
SUBJECT Mahlwinkel Landing Grounds DATE DISTR. 1$EP 07
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF .ONTFNT IS TFIJTATIVC
report 0.MNi
on the Mahiwinkel landing grounds which ves n oirma ion under the
following headings: (1) Location, (2) Natural Surface, (3) Permanent
Features, (4+) Communications, (5) Occupation, and (6) AA Positions.
A sketch showing the relative features of the landing grounds is also
included.
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FBI AEC
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EAST GERMANY
AIR/MILITARY
MAHLWINKEL landing ground
Appendix:
Attached as an appendix is an overlay,
showing relative features of this landing
strip.
LOCATION
This landing ground consists of a strip approximately 3,500 metres
in length and 500 metres in width, lying approximately east-west
in the MAHLWINKELER WAlp t is situated due E/SE of the villa-mP
of MAHLWINKEL and W/SVJ of GOBBET,
NATURAT, SURFACE
The entire clearing consists of grass in good condition, perfectly level.
The grass had obviously been fairly recently cut, but there were no
signs of the surface being rutted or in any .ray broken up.
N. PSP or concrete landing surfaces or taxiways were observed anywhere
on the strip.
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?ERM.P~NENT FEATURES
(a) Tide only permanent feature on or near this site was a cluster of
a.:,nroxi m:a.tly six to eight wooden barrack huts, located
fppendix . Approximately 300-400 metres further eastwards there was a
-mall wooden building with a flat platform on the roof (see point 4.
juf appendix).
() Where were no signs of any fuel installations either on or near the
,iicinity of the site.
!c) There is no visible overhead po43er supply feeding the site.
4 ? Z0,19MNICATIONS
,a) in over'and telephone system, comprising three pairs mounted on
w oden ;oasts, led away from the wooden-hutted site, via the SW
corner of the strip, bypassing the eastern side of the village of
'UHLV/INKEL. This network has been traced back as far as TANGENHUTTE
ttie ultimate destination is at present not known (see point 6. of
appendix).
(b) There is no permanent rail spur leading into the strip, nor have any
heavy roadways been located.
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a-nn ., originating on the nearby amain road
The traclk leecl.:i.n r into the S ",V corner of th:; site (see k:,,:)int 2. of
shows signs of having been used by zair y hoa-try vehioles.
bue.~:.leu and cstirawtod to ooLr_)rise approximately two or three
loads.
PSP sheeting. alon.;uide of this track,
thore io a ver sirs; um
.>' p . , ~,is sYieetint being somewhat
is track is 4,uite churned up, and the final portion the hutted
situ has been covered (war in -places b oral adJoini.rr soetions of
5? OCCTF TION
On the day of tibse.rv&.t:t.on there %- c'-re no F .1~.~' . aircr t, personnel,
v h.icles or ratio/radar equipmornts to be ;33m annyrrhere on- or near
the site. T'I'I re 6evera1 German black-unifoxrr (j police patrolling
the area, but apart from a s;tries of signs in t1~ _~ surroundir, woodiands
doolarin(, it to lb(', prohibited area no . oncing or other physical
seouri ty barrier csoul.d be seen.
6. A .~A.
No lVA po.3itions. eitheer oocuric~d or r ;liai;, were located anywhere 14 in the vicinity of the site.
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