IASI AIR BASE

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Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 
CIA-RDP82-00457R000200050008-0
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RIPPUB
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S
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3
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November 9, 2016
Document Release Date: 
February 18, 1999
Sequence Number: 
8
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Publication Date: 
December 12, 1946
Content Type: 
IR
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Approved COUNTRY Rumania flY 11,7,D 0Jkli 9109./ B : GIA-RDP82-00457R0 25X1A2g NTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP AloibiOGOWNWENIKOMPIT Document No. C NO CHANGE in Class. ri SUJET Iasi Air Ba.e 0 DECLASSIFIED Class. CHANGED TO: TS DDA Ar 77 Auth: DDA =G. 77/17O3 ORIGIN ? 25X1A6a sc PAGES 3 SUPPLEMENT EVE INFO. DIST, 12 December 1946 25X1X6 Located northeast of Iasi (47?10,N, 27?351R). The field cannot b eeon from tram- terminus or the highway to Maneatesti. Prom west east the field is approximately 2,000 meters in length, ani. from. -.e.)rth to south 14500 meters. It could eaeily be enlarged to 3,000 eeters on the norm. A righter base berore 1944, it was transrormed lea the Soviets' into a bomber base with a hard surface of pressed gravel. Complete system of illumination surrounds the field and operates from nearby buildings. Concrete stip in center of the south side of the field is approximately 500 meters by 60 meters. One fixed *q" is situated close to the concrete strip. Installae tions on the southwest are enclosed by concrete walls and barbed wire fences. The main entrance to the field is opposite the tram terminus on the Manzatesti highway, about 10 kilometers northeast ef Iasi. CPeRkinlk The maximum capacity is 350 two-engine bombers. Until the 1944 qrmietice the jAkjAmajavAlrAcismapjaamst Fleet with six re.- - eonnaissance scuadrons was stationed here. The fleet was dissolved la 1945 and field taken over comeletely by Russians. AUS-rlin efarked activity was observed at the field. On 20 September 1946, 53 YAK-4 two-engine bombers, the same number of IL-2's bearing the .774hALLAKEt insigne, and 10 Bata's were stationed On the field. en the same day 30 LA-7 fighters of the 22._ arrived from e east; 15 of these took off in an easterly direction after several hours. Also, three four-engine bombers, type TB-70 came in from the south, refueled and left In a westerly direction. 25X1A9a ? DASO ! 713r-4 ,pprovedITIOHR-eleaeliSS-9/-0.-9/078?tlik RD qk i'f;t4JL )-3- iTnr, ASCAT{ONSE eT/ ? Hri7;1FX - ------- s pea_ 25X1A9a CONTROL U.S FFNCIALS ONLY Approved For Release 1999/09/08: CENTRAL INTELLIGNNCE GROUP 2 7R099g9l0008-0 Moan There are six hangar st each of steel conetruction, 21000 square meters in area, with an entrance 40 meters vide and six meters high, and a height of ten meters. One is a re- pair hangar belonging to the ACAM workshop. E,VARDWII There are unidentified net; Soviet to field around 10 eeptember 1946 legedly have occupied field pince tine hed been stationed peevieusly N, units which wore transferred bix different units al.el beginning of 1946. Of these, in the CeenautI area (43?17' glimitlang Tola The tower is connected.with a mobile radio truck and trailer 40 motors away rhich is ceeouflaged by trees* The generator f:or the radio station, is located. about 30 meters ,eoutheast of the toyer and provides current for the nearby telephone switch board used entirely for air operations. ?The workshop is undor t:oviet jurisdiction but employs Rumanian technicians as veal as Ruesien personnel. A total -of 200 workers is emeloyed. The shop comprise one section for major repair' on precision instruments and automatic weapons, two repair zhops for minor repair of aforementioned and oneessembly shop Where fmstruments are installed in aircraft. Tee AML plant has its own switchboard*. IS10.,42ma Located at the southwest corner of the iold the dump Is camou- flaged by trees. annnaimamapt The ammunition buneor hal tro electric elevators 'end two emer-. gency entrances on the north and south. The bunker, 25 meters - by 15 meters in size, is ellegedly 10 motors deep and divided :Into four charbers. drainage system extends 200 meters south... Bunker oontaine a total weight of 15,000 kilograms of fragment eation bombs, incendieries, Ah and machinetgun ammunition. No separate bomb dump was observed. 10. kef2reree.?-9_91 ixty vehicles ere assigned to the field. Of these, 12 gas truck, four tractors, and ten other motor vehicles were ob.. eerved on 20 eeptember 1966. -11CONTROL o .4-4:41-14LIVAJW Approved For Release 1999/09/08 : CIA-RDP82-00457R000200050008-0 Approved For Release 1999/09/0 I i457 CENTRAL iNTLLLIOENCE GROUP 3 110 gAllaa Officers live privately in Iasi while duty officers-reside at hadquarters, a two story building located about 30 meters south of the hangars. The enlisted men are in the former Russian prisoner-of-war camp vest of the field; the, capacity is. unknown. Approved For Release 1999/09/08 : CIA-RDP82-00457R000200050008-0