PRETZSCH AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004300020008-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 24, 2006
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 16, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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1 Only the section surrounded by a 'wooden fence of the
former PRLETZSC:i (N WE 4L") airfield was preserved (loca-
tion see Annex). Ruins were northwest of this section,
probably destroyed cantonment buildings, There were no
indications of a landing field or technical airfield instal-
lations. The fenced-off area was surrounded by gardens
and fields.
the canton-
ment buildings had previously been utilized as a discharge
camp for returning PGs. Alleges ly, only two policemen were
now quartered in the cantonment buildings. It was rumored
that a police unit with Alsatian dogs was soon to be quar-
tered there. biers were no Soviet soldiers.
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former a 'L'rfield is apparently now under cultivations
b. The location of the field as reproduced on the attached
sketch agrees with WW II records
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