BRIESEN AIRFIELD

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008300390006-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: July 23, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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EVALUATION bat .,.~ ~a..~PLACE OBTAINEI 25X1A
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1. On 29 lay 1951,9 a conference, concerns construction work at Driesen
ai:rpfield, was held in *and with representatives of the 6CC in rlin-
Karlshorst, the Landesregierung of Brandenburg, the Cottbus regional
ra:?.l.road headquarters,, and the Bauunion construction firm In this
conference the tar et date for the completion of the work was advanced
by six weeks and set for 10 August 1951
20 On 3 June., the target 25X1 X
for the co:>>pletion of the work at i riesen airfield was ad-ranted from
3. October to 15 August 19510 ":'ark was being done by 1,500 laborers woking
in three shifts. 'Two b red carloads of broken stones, c=8ment, and gravel
arrived daily. On request of the I3auunion firm? a locomotive was made
available after a. June 1951 at the Brand railroad station for the shipping
25X1 B of construction znateria1 to the field0
3. B& Teen 3 and 15' June,, a Soviet tractor brigade of 80 men vas still employed
at the field. The brigade i,,ias equip d with three heavy tractors,, five
trucks, and several tank trucks, an estimated 2$000 aen25X1X
were probably ern oioyed. a represen - 25X1 X
ta-r,ive of the Bauu.r?ion firer asked for an additional hundred v,orkers because
the: target date for the completion of the runway was allegedly advanced to
late-August 195L
i : or~ale among the 1er::,un laborers vas low because of the high norms req 0-red,,
On 15 June,, 'Etudi Jai-.n, ==in.ister President of Land Brandenburg,, held a rally
in front of the construction bureau. The personnel of the airfield and
pupils of eight e l ernentary schools took part in this rally.
5. 4+or?k was being done in three shifts. The construction sites, particularly
the runway, were illuminated by strong lamps after nightfall. The Soviet
br . adee graded the area of the runway. Heavy rollers fitted with spikes.,,
bulldozers, and ordinary rollers,, toyed by tractors,, were used. On 16 June
300 meters of the runway were concreted and on 19 June,, a. strip of about
350 meters was completed, A new storage shed was erected southeast of the
fls.r-Yht control budding,' A strip of woods about 150 to 200 meters was
cleared on both side; z of the runway for security . aso ?: A tractor was
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planing the c1ea,red strips. The turning aprons at the ends of the
-runway wtwex only graded but nrit pr"rvided with a hard ? -i'rtce~,
6. Ten carloads of basa1-P',ic ` 3iast. wx::'ch arrived by rail were un'i.cadtk,
at the storage shed fo.r cement, The individual rocks wore abc.i- t
It cm large. It could not be determ:Lneci for what purpos o~ the
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was used. A strip abc)t 100 x 200 -aete::'s, apparently for the -o .
stru,:;tion of a taxi ra r, was cleared abouh 6CO meters at of the er i
of ta}.e spur rack9 aloe- the t3rand--Kreusn_ -_k road toward tie r=:nway
ic' lighting facilities were seen along the ritnwery or on the e~?, e of
the field.
7. Of the sc"aeduled 13 brick buildings, six trev: under cons`eruct.,:n'.
T t bull" ings were covered with roofing Pape: each building, 15 x 60
meters, had 16 w: ndt . An educational bu: ldl ng was being con ;; trusted
in foi rsst subarea (Jagen) No 60,, opposite tI.4 `rick build ngs
Acecr:- 'ing to the land-re,, istry office, approaci. lanes wore p1m:ie;d to
be rug, in the eastern am!, western extensions of the rwwmy, ThEe,ee
apprce.ch lanes were to bt. 500 resters square :f'ror the edge of the field.
The ccestion -hether the railroad line was to lo :loved 5 IM faatt.etr
west. rd was raised but not dedtdnd upon.,
8,, The r3 .field was still gu? .ed by ten ci:i ilian gv.irds maAring ,ed ,..
bands with the inscription "Factory Polif,e". It :,zs lectrtted .f }om
tolls.; with laborers that t:.te former cons ?uction iupOri.nte:ident
Floe'.. ce, (fnu), 4as no loo, e r at the field and. t2 at he had :.egod_ky
fleet to the west.
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On 23 J zne, a strip of about 800 meters of the F W rurnzr r, rich was
a' t 60 meters wide, was under construction at the field. Light
pr;,a i were 4rected on the southern edge; of the runwtra ?, The con true
V_on Laborers used three power sh'lve1: and three con,.rete mi_xera,, A
rai3ct n; about 6 x 20 x 50 rne4ter;, wao- under construc-:,ion on'thea southern
edge ra# the-field. The airfisld was guarded by civtiians
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cr ple Fa a on cif the concrete rur uay which i.r to be 3, 000 m' tern iorg, It
is not possible that the entire airfield ' i.li complti. ted by O August
25X1 A r-* .omment. A hangar is possibly under construction,
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