WERNEUCHEN AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008500060007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 26, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: July 31, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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1 Betwer 18 22 juw- Lv.~o1y 2D 8W laborers were
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W" agald in operat .on, Cioret unserviceable
m?ter se+~3~ of the ~ way Meted au a 348000 aquae
m e t e reI 0 (2) An a c i d t 3 . o a a a 3 0 5 k m o f S
tr n Were 1aid,o ti a makIng a total of 1005 km, Opt 20 iiea
tt + oosstruet Super tenden$ oa3d t'hat9 at a a ferenee heir at the
LwW08ft910rM9 In Potadam the target date for the a 1etfm of the work
w set for 5 Septa Aber 19510 Aooorri p' a this t
date co 1d not be net target
if work tiny at the as a
toww was be l e8ea-t tarts 0 obsm t
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18400 meters frOm the western edge of the rya
Tht height of this t war 5 meterm
2. The 35- flatcars which, arrived at the fie?d on 22 ithe were loaded 'with six
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a e,5, _2 z.dn sF, Ma 12 l un err air boxes, probably containing engines,, (3)
::o shipping labels retire seen on the -flatcars r, rich were being unloaded behind
the I angars0 Tvielvo trucks, four caterpillar tractors, and large and snail
boxes loaded on four cars also arrived on the train,, According to the des-
cription of the fuselages and vrings. tho aircraft were of the same type as
ithose parked in the hangars,
At 1%30 p.m, on 21 Juno,, four tcrin engine planes, each toviing a cargo glider
flare over the field at an altitude of about 500 meters and at, a conspicuously
slow speedo Source observed that front sections of the fuselages protruded
far beyond the 'rings 0 The tapering rri ngs had straight leading ed ;es 0 They
had ro'plexiglass noses. The car ;o glider had a conspicuously thick nose, (4)
Betty un 25 and 29 Juiac.~z. 2,800 laborers were still emplo
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Four Diesel locomotives, tiro 1-cubic meter Domag parer shovels and two 2-cubic
slater concrete rxt%ers were o~__oporationr A strip of 44..600 square
meters of the r,zr?cratr vats laved with concrete, (5) Tlae ~~ririne corn 3n th rest
serurit zone Zt00 maters u de rs s har-vested. l i?e was Yc ri 1 o~recl ax s dr,
Colonel ICarnatovslci., (fnu), continually, tried to speed up the ti' ork.,
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h ;wing tl eir engines tested. Clearing of aircraft continued
E z+ti1 h r..,-m. It was 'earned that 24 aircraft revetments were to
bro-o built irre4guhrly along, the northern section of the planned
tWxiway around the field.
rcrait Prove cleaned and towed back into the har?gars without
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tit,; 8;30 t Kip, on 29 June, it eras seen from the vest that eight
planes were tarred out of hangars iio 2 and 3. The
?0 June. the fol?oring details were obtained frorri inforants:
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