STAAKEN AIRFIELD

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006800290010-2
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 5, 2002
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: December 29, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY C'a;y (`i )vi?t gone) REPORT NO.J
TOPIC Staaknn :;1 rf'4 c l c3
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TE PREPARED 27 :December '1950
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1? No aircraft ;rcre parked at the Staakon (N 53/Z 6) airfield between
noon and 6 p.m. on 13 November 1950. (1) The hangars wore closed.
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2. A radio installation, consisting of four mots about 8 :inters high
and 15 meters apart and a wooden cabin 2 meters square, set in the
middle of the masts, was set up about 5;30 meters west of are in line With
the runway. A light was on in the cabin at night Two open trucks
and a metal mast which .-ia4; extended about 10 meters wore about 50
to 60 meters northwest of the ra:"io in: tall:tion. Taro tolephone
:wires led frcra a tolegra_ah pole to one of the trucks. (2)
3. Tho runway was illuminated by lb lights an e:..clr sido. From east to
west there were two rod, six white, two rod pand. lour white lights.
The lights were switched on at dusk. Four spotii-ate about 50 cm in
diameter, and facing crest were set up botvreen the western end of the
runway and the four-masted radio installation. ' ?rer. e -Jan an occu~miod
shed both to tho east and the west of the s )otli_ghts, which wore not
snitched on. (3) Lights on natal poles about 3 motors high and 130
motors apart were located on the northern edge of the landi?t _? field.,
20 meters south of the railway bed. i'loy beaned their light umard.
The light farthest to the east was conrnected.. by a cable with a cabin
next to it.:tnothor row of lights, about 30 meters apart and fitted
on 2a5-meter wooden poles, wac, about 33 motors south of the rail-.way
bed. he lights, five of which wor switched on at cusk, pointed toward
the north.
ti. No aircraft wer : soon at the field Letwecn 23 October and 25 ?1ovomber.
All hangars were closed betwoen 8 and 7 a.m. on 25 Nov rabor. No alanes
were parked outside the hangars and there was no activity. (1) Three
sentries with blue epaulets wore seen in the northern section of the
field. The radio installation Brest of the field was unchanged and was
occupied,
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>. No aircraft were seen at the field between 7 and 19 i'ovc mbor.
$mall wooden cabins, 150 motors apart, wer: on the northern
section of the field. They were connected with telephone wires
and occu?ied by sentries. The sentries -previously stationed in
the southern section of the field were withdrawnm The radio in-
stallations west of the field wore still there. A new installation
consisting of four r sts -?rith a cabin in the canter was oL>served
aLout 300 motors south of the western end of the Z ran-?rav.
6. A large motor val,icle was parked in a small woods in front of the
flight control station. 25X1
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set up along the Z -;;J runway?
7. Between 1 and 2:30 p.m. on 21 Nov amber, two twin-engine low wi,ig
monoplanes with the numbers 6 and 9 on their sin.,;le redder assemblies
made local flights in good visibility.
8. All hangars at the field were open at 9:30 a.ri. on 22 ' Jov:,:2ber. Four
tt'rin-engine transports were parked in the eastornmost hangar. (1)
NO ainggLe -en,-;ine biplanes took off and headed soutir,tcst when the visi-
bility was -?ood and the WW slightly cloudy. ,1 radio truck zrit:h a rod
antenna as hi :h as the antennae o:l' the radio installation ?-ras soon for
the first time beside the radio instal.lati,)n. four s otli: zts boa.-:ling
their light to the west and cli ;htly u.nrard :Toro located on nth Sides
of the western end of the -41 runway.
9. The occupation of the field was unchanged botrreon 21 and 26 iJov.>>raber.
ri twin-engine plane made local 15-minute flights between 4:i and 10
The visibility was poor and. the cloud base 1a-r. Two lending ti -,I14-
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soon on the .plane when it landed. Durin,- the fli. hts the s -aotli .,Iit at the
field, located not far from the radio installation., rotated in a clockwise
direction at intervals of 1 to 3 minutes. At 6 p.m the field wan; brightly
illuminated for one minute 1j,,,,- a blue l.i?ht, similar to thDt of neon tubes.
The 1_i alit was not -produced by flash bombs because it came from below and
not from alcove. A similar observation was made at the field sov::ral months
ago. (1t)
Comments.
(1) Bono frln ne trans .worts have been par:ced at the. ;itaakcen airfield since
the rround attack regiment was transferred to Juetorbog-/altos La!Ter.
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or location of radio installation, see -nne.
The runway lighting facilities described are believed to be at the field.
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(4) was o 5a a y II.P=nated by searc ich ;s set up on the edge
of the landing field"
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