STAAKEN AIRFIELD

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005600280012-1
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: July 25, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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Sixteen tcw'in-enr ino -planes were standing at the ataaken (I 53W
' 5) ;i 'f'led on 13 May 1050. (1)
Forty-one single-amino c,rouanad>attack planes and nine twin-
a give transports were peen at the field on :5 Pay i950o (2)
The via_ ibility was fair between 4.30 and 6 p.m but there wise
no flying.. A twin-engine transport with two s>.ataU white
rectangles on the rudder assembly l 5nded at the fl old about
5 para. The numbers 394045,4647 were idexii;If'.cd on five
of the eight ground attack planes standing In front of the
first hangar. Numbers rangi.z~I, between 14 and 217Y were seen
on the round-attacak planes atanding in the northeastern corner
of the field. These planes had a, rod rim on thc upper edge
of the rudder assembly. (5) Truck art the field.
and to ck loaded with a large fuel container with
the inscription l-18-56, arrived at the field.
A building on Hamburg Ti way, southwest of the %1o dt was
occupied by four or five Soviet soldiers wearing black==bordered,
black epaulets. Large and small cable reels were lying In the
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Forty-four ground attacks plants with In-line engines, and. four
or five twin -en ;ins transports were s sanding at ;lie field on
5 June 1950. There was no flying.
The field %,,ias observed between 4:30 and 5:15 p.st4,. on 10 June
1.950. The sky was cloudy and the visibility good but there was
no flying. The 26 ground attack planes previously soon were
still pari;ed in three separate groups on the nort-heastern and
eastern edges of the field. Five to seven twin-zngi.ne trans-
;karts were s taanding in front of the 1art;e hangar? Twenty
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covered round-attack planes stood in front of the small han-
C;ars west of the large one. The planes had red numbers, ranging'
between 25 and 50, on the fuse .ages. and red paint on the upper
edges of the rudder assemblies,
A radio. tr tk was west of the field. About 20 to 30 meters away
there was a new wooden hut surrounded by four marts. The masts
were about 7 meters high and were arrarir?ed in a square, about
3 to 4 meters apart. Bach mast had two ;sections of the same
length, and was braced at the center and top by three guy-wirers.
A lead-In, with a cape 9.erial which was from 2 to 3 meters long,
was between each most center and the wooden hut. (4) `ruck
was parked near the radio station. Passenger car
was seen at bas field.
7. On 4 Jane 1950, 36 single -en .ine plane with In-line engines
were standing on the southern and eastern edges of the field,
and 5 twin-engine planes were in front of the hangars. The
fuel tanks previously seen on the northern edge of the field
were no longer there. A wooden shed with four antenna masts,
arran;,erl In a square, was in the western section of the fields (4)
The masts were connected with each other and with the roof of
the wooden shod. A truck with a box like superstructure and with-
out wheels was 500 meters to the west. A braced steel mast, about
15 meters high, was nearby and at its side weve two truck one
with an attached generator.
25X1A Comments.
(1) l~~ ` transports confirmed at the field.
t2) i,'or layout sketch or.' the airfield and aircraft disposition. , see Annex 1.
3) The occupation of the field by a ground attack rest iment
equipped with IL -10s and an air transport squadron apparently
25X1A has not changed since the last observations between 13 and 20 May
1950. See The aircraft numbers kind a; arkings
were previously observe .
(4) The radio station very probably is an Adoock P/.' station. For
sketch of mast, sae Annex 3. The fitting of the lead-in at the
25X1A mast center was previously observed at the Brandle airfield,, See
The cage aerial presumably is a screen to prevent
the lead-:in `'m op o ra t g is an ant enna a
2 Annexes
tl) Layout Sketch of Stacken Airfield
(2) Radio Station at ataaken Airfield
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