SOVIET AIR FORCE PHOTOGRAPHIC UNIT IN RODAUN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000400360004-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: March 7, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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.
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COUNTRY Austria
REPORT No. 50X1
SUBJECT Soviet Air Force Photographic
DATE DISTR.
7 March 1955
Unit in Rodaun
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DATE OF INFO.
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REQUIREMENT NO.
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PLACE ACQUIRED
REFERENCES
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SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE.
APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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COUNTRY Austria/USSR
SUBJECT Soviet Air Force Photographic Unit
in Rodaun
DATE OF INFORMATION
PLACE ACQUIRED
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DATE DISTR. 28 Js. 1953
NO. OF PAGES 3
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1. When the communications company (rota svyazi) of the 135th Separate
Air Warning Battalion was transferred to Rodaun (N 48-o8, E 16-17),
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Austria, A four-storied stone building (Point 5, page 3), 20 m. x
20 m. with a gabled tile roof was turned over to communication
company to/be used as quarters and an operations cen er. The building,
of Old coristruction, was located Amnna l'aci idential houses occupied by
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graphic unit had been stationed here previously. 50X1
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tampea "secret" along the edges. whinLI T
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50X1 individual aerial photographs of a oeruain area were pasted onto a
large sheet of paper. The individual photographs varied in size and
shape (triangular, rectangular, etc.). About 15 to 17 photographs
composed one map, having been fitted together accurately.
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50X1 the maps found were of different areas. Altitude from
wrilcn the photographs were taken could not be estimated. Each map
appeared to have one small town with its immediate surroundings.
All names oftowns were printed by hand in Russian at the bottom in
heavy drawing ink./
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he ph-Otos were originals
arm tnat the completed mosaic was meant to be reproduced later by a
.,photographic process.
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2. To explain the fact that classified material WAIR left in an unoccu-
pied building, discipline in the
photographic uLi.?u wail very lax.
om 3, \ Ia roil of
undeveloped film in a metal tube-like container with Russian
inscriptions on it. The film was 19 cm. wide and 19?al.'-long as
marked on the container. Another inscription read- "VskryVatA.
polnoy temnotye" (To be opened in complete darkness).
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ioxi ImAny empty
-metal containers were found in the house. These containers bore
German inscriptions. The width of the Milt was 36 cm.; this was
written on the containers; length was unknown
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four cases of "photo glass" stored in the basement
or the house. The cases measured approximately 100 cm. x 25 cm. x
30 cm. and were made of wooden boards which were noit nnined and
had no inscriptions. 1 Ia sheet
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of paper with the f011L1wJdig woras printed- on it in Russian:
CFotostakla" (photo glass)) The glass was covered with some thin
paper, though not very carefully. The individual glass plates
measured approximately 23 cm. x 28 cm. and were packed sideways.
The number of plates in one case was unknown H It seemed
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that each glass plate consisted of two thin glass plates,thiokness unknown, glued together with some sort of substance whi
a a t a earance.
the photo unit stationed here previously was
moved to a new location slightly to the north. .
transmitting center (Point
1, page .5), a Dombed-out antitank grenade factory. One single-
storied wooden barrack was constructed for use as a transmitting
station. Five VN erson e
e mess ha was a stone ull -
ngs ree-storie with a gabled tile roof, 40 m. x 25 m. x 15 m.
In addition to the mess hall, this building housed an unidentified
air force unit of company strength./
a detachment of air force
soldiers being marched to the mess hall. The detachment numbered
18 soldiers, all enlisted men. They wore the nswil air force uni-
forms with no special insignia. Other air force
soldiers that these men belonged to a photo unit which recently
moved into the vicinity. The soldiers came from the eastlalong the
road (Point 4. ngag. 3)0 a description of which is not recalled.
t their duty station was located 300-500 m. east
of the mess hall. I the airmen were from the unit Which
had previously occupied the four-storied stone building into which
the Communications Company of the 135th Separate Air Warning
Battalion (VNOS) moved in June 1954 (Point 5, page 3).
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Overlay of GSGS 4116, Sheet X-10,
Wiener Neustadt, Scale 1:100,000
Approximate pinpoint of previous and
present location of a Soviet Air Force
photo detachment near Rodaun..
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1. Transmitting Station
2. Dirt road, 3-4 meters wide
3. Mess hall
4. Road,description not recalled
5. 4-storied stone building occupied in June 1954 by Communications
CompatiyTOr"135th Separate Air Warning Battalion
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