DOEBERITZ AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007800180001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 30, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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On 4 April 1951 at about 9 a.m, approximately 25 ground attack aircraft
took off from Doeberitz ( 53/Z 65) airfield from west to cast. The
planee asse9bled over the troop training grounds and headed west. There
was intensive activity at the field with much movement of trucks and tank
trucks. -ork was being done on almost all the planes parked at the field.
At about 11 a.m..a formation flew over the field from west to east at an
altitude of about 2,000 meters. The formation broke-up by flying large 50X1-HUM
clecles and then landed in elements of two at a distance of about 1,500
meters. After landing, sone of the planes taxied to the northern edge of
the field, others to the southern edge. k total of 77 aircraft were counted
or the northern edge although the view was partially obstructed,
Thirty-two planes were counted on the
southern edge. This number probably does not represent all the plance parked
there. The interior of the hangars, some of which were open, could not be
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2. A fire truck, several trucks, tank trucks, and a radio truck with a rod antenna
about five to six meters high were parked at the take-off point. No chalvs
were seen at the fuel dump.
3. At 11 a.m.,
60 parked aircraft were
and trucks
of the field. *
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counted at the field.
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were seen in the area
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Two ground attack regiments,
each equipped with 52 IL-10s, are believed to be stationed at Doeberitz.
The number of aircraft reported was confirmed by another source on 9 April 1951,
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