DESSAU AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007500660012-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 13, 2013
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: April 5, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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. During the period from 1 to 3 ::arch 1951
at the Dessau 52/::: 06) airiiela the administrative
personnel of the field had cone from Koothen (!! 52/D 95), (1) while the
technical personnel had arrived from Slsterlager, from where replacements
currently arrived. (2) Airfield commandant was Lieutenant Colonel Sakabunin,
(fnu)? who was billeted at CO Eeioreistrasse in Dessau?Alton, (3)
Tho division headquarters was in .iitt,50X1-1HUM
berg ,( 52/D 37). (5) :'0,ney from the depots w? as taken to Jittenberg from
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whore the wages for the )orman shoemakers and tailors also wire paid. Jarman
workers with relatives in .estern Germany were not hired. For several weeks
the unit had boon equipped with a second mobile transmitter which frequently
changed its location.
2. During the period from 26 February to 11 :.:arch flying was conducted at the 50X1-HUM
Dessau airfield only on 3, 5 and 6 :arch. The planes circled over the field
without retracting their landing gears. There was no night flying.
3. On 3 and 6 :7arch, 21 :13-15s covered by tarpaulins were seen at the eastern
edge of the field. (6) About 25 senior lieutenants were seen shopping in
Trucks 4th a wooden superstructure
wore soon proceeding toward the quarters south of the field, 50X1-HUM/
Dessau.
4. On 5 7.arch a searchlight mounted on a truck was seen by the side of the radio
truck in the northeastern corner of the field. On other da -s this truck ha
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this truck continually changed its location.
Comments.
(1) This stater.lent presumably refers to the situation in the fail of 1949, when
a fighter regiment, previously located in Kocthen, moved to the Dessau air?
field.
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A locality called Elsterlager is net know'. The
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possibly refers to Altes Lazar (Jueterbog) where
technical school may have been located.
an air farce
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The officer
mentioned
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is believed to be the commanding officer of a bomber
the ATB.
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(5)
It is believed that this is actually the ATD headquarters. The
fighter division headquarters is locatOd in Alt-Loennewitz.
(6)
The number of IIIG-15 aircraft in Dessau is estimated at 30.
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