BRANDENBURG-ARADO AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008100820005-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: June 29, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

._ Approved.FQr,Release 2001/03/06: CIA-
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1, 011 30 a : 1:2' 1. there was flight training; with tiro--:eater low-win monoplanes
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f: t '#.e d with in--la;ne engines at :;ra donburg- .rado airfield
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,~ati0 nc(d at `ne' fiel.d could not bo determined becaurm most of the ,planes wore
in the riangars
were se^n near acid at the field;, The total mraber of aircraft
an 7 Ju e l9jl.s the ground attack planes conducted flying, -'he cloud cover ;gas
io,vd, Diving at an angle of about 14 ? was practiced. About noon,, 12 'ound attack
'):Lanroti took of ~ hoad:.;d southwest and returned about one hour lr+ter. 'ihe airfield
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3,, ` z 3 June 1 51. about .142 si:z l a-engine gr.'ound attack planes core parked at the
G.astern border of the airfield.., The tips off 'vheir rue per assemblies were red,.
~?rh.a.te, and grays ' ithou ,h the ,zeather was good,, only ?our biplanes were obs r?`v~:u
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i r,{adio instal?_ation was not obs3rved. Indio i uck - pas:>onger. car
settlem. ent nor?th of the field were occupied by air force porcon.-lel ,, the roof
of each of these hoesns ,-,as fitted with a rod antenna about 2 .x-ters hi,,', with
an insulator i n its middles
were seen at the fields your houses in the
Uo: u ent? i=rom the -!umber of aircraft observed. at the field. in =+ :pril a. .
i ; -"a believed that I?ra.idernba.zr ?