COTTBUS AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005800630007-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2001
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: August 29, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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DATE OBTAINED _~DATE PREPARED 29 AIIa1'st 19KO
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1, Three loi -wing monoplanes with two in-line engines and double rudder
assemblies were parked in front of the hangars of the Cottbus (N 52/A 57)
airfield between 10 a.m. and. 121l5 p.n. on 19 July 1950. (1) No alights
were made. Soldiers in four or five--man groups, about 350 meters apart,
trained with portable radio sets on the southern edge of the landing field.
They wore red-bordered black epaulets.
2. The old E-4orunway had been widened. About 350 laborers were extending the
runway and landing field to the west. Tracks for diesel locomotives
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and dumpcars were beside this construction site. Work-.eras being done on
the subgrade of the runway. Light poles were only along the extended sec-
tion. The old landing field was again serviceable because the construc-
tion sheds and tracks had been dismantled. (2) There were still piles of
gravel, sand and crushed stones near the unloading facilities on the
southern edge of the field. There was intensive activity here. Tma gasoline
tarks,.each with an 16,000 to 20,000-liter capacity,, were lying beside the
loading ramp. They were apparently to be installed, (2) Individual con-
struction firms had apparently been discharged since the number of construc-
tion workers had decreased.
- 3. In late Juts 1950, a diesel engineer at the field said that the nwway was
to be completed on 1 September 1950 and a soviet engineer battalion had
arrived to do th;: last excavation work. (4) The German personnel of the
Rauunion--South Firm, now employed at the field, expected to be sent to
Dreslau (F 52/C 1;1) for airfield construction work. (5)
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(1) The airfield is still not occupied by an air unit. It was previously
observed that individual planes, presumably transports or courier :Lanes,
occasionally landed at the field.
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is now 60 meters wride. the :,-17 runway is
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(3) The installation of new fuel containers was reported in April 1950. see
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CLASSIFICATION ST,., -CONTROL/uS OFFI
I Next Review Date: 2008
This document Is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL In accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
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(1k) The target date was previously reported. It was antici-
pated to be from 1 September to 1 October 195Oe
16) No information has been received on the construction of a airfield nee
Breslau.
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