IASI AIR BASE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000200050008-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: December 12, 1946
• Content Type: IR

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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.
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The maximum capacity is 350 two-engine bombers. Until the 1944
qrmietice the jAkjAmajavAlrAcismapjaamst Fleet with six re.-
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eonnaissance scuadrons was stationed here. The fleet was dissolved
la 1945 and field taken over comeletely by Russians.
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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.
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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.
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There are unidentified net; Soviet
to field around 10 eeptember 1946
legedly have occupied field pince
tine hed been stationed peevieusly
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units which wore transferred
bix different units al.el
beginning of 1946. Of these,
in the CeenautI area (43?17'
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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*.
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Located at the southwest corner of the iold the dump Is camou-
flaged by trees.
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The ammunition buneor hal tro electric elevators 'end two emer-.
gency entrances on the north and south. The bunker, 25 meters
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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.
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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.
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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.
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