RATHENOW AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005800120010-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 2001
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: August 22, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATIOI
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DATE OF CCNTEI
DATE OBTAINED
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DATE PREPARED 22 Augt 950
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L. laathenuw (N 53/Z 15) airfield was unoccupied on -1. July 1950. * Only
about 25 air force officers r erialned after the troops had left the
maneuver ax?ea. south of Rathenora during the period from la to 17 July
1.950.
2. Four U-2 biplanes were standing at the field on 25 July i950, About
20 artillery officers and 6 to 10 air force officers were billeted. at
the Vogelsang Inn north of the field? About 200 EM wearing red-borderod
black epaulets, some of tlhem ;=rich artillery badges, wore quartered in
the club house near 'Yolzen,ee0
3, The, landirv field at the airfield was sodded, Con: truction work was not
observed. Hangars end other installations were not soon. The field
appeared to be used as an auxiliary landing strip,,
$?" Germans 0-pi.o- ad in the barracks of 1'bathonow said. that the planes former?-
ly stationed at the field had been assiied to the artillery headquarters
in la thenowo 181
Cor ent. On 11 July 1950 the sane source saw 17 U -2s and two single-
s ne s cir IL -10s at the field The. present whereabouts
of these planes is not 1anoin?
--PLACE OBTAINED..,
CaraiY nt. The }!q of the IV Arty Corps is believed to be located in
o l-r?FrSx5- this fact and from paragraph 2 it is pflssible that the
plenepreviously observed in athenow wore assigned to the IV Arty Corps,
possibly only temporarily.
'C'."llITR0L/U; OF TC.? %13 ONLY
CLASSIFICATION 5:,C,
CONFIDENTIAL
Approved For Release 2001/03/05: CIA-RDP82-
This document Is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
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