COTTBUS AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008900300012-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2001
• Sequence Number: 12
• Content Type: REPORT

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reviously observed were counted in. front c the i:~_ zt~;- ors
Grading work west of the ruca.r;av was not cor-r.:ieted, Truc':s
4. At 6 a'. m. on A:33 Twin-engine planes of the type
34 twin-engine planes were parked in two rows in front
of the hangars. There was no f1.c, infs. P landin' beacon as
east of the Lower Pond. Its was braceix in :lour places.
At 10a.m. on 15 August, 40 tw ii engine aircraft wore part: cd
in front of the hangars. One plane, probably making test
ghts, circled the field W After each circle the plan
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flying at Cott': u.s airfield. About 30 't;r 40 t .r;. uer _re
zircr.aft v;er?e parked in two rows in front of the closed
hangars. * Thirty civilians wore excavating In the south-
wester?n section of the field.
About 9 a.m. on 3 ilug st, 23 tvw:`:n-engine Planes took off
in flights and assembled in one formation ft the air, ITo
.=endings swore rude until 10:30 a0ri_. At 4 pm a on 11. AAugtist
10 Between 3 and 7 p.m., on 9 August 1951, ther`C ,"?' a i o
left the field '
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At 5 a,.no on 23 Pugust, an alarm was hoax-(.-1' frog: the field,
I;umerous aircraft en^::i.nes were then st !arted. 1.,"orty-t tree
twin-engine planes with iii--line eras:fines and double rudder
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ssetibly were parked in two rows lh front of th e hangars.
At 3:3u a-in , 23 of the planes toot,, off individually and
assembled in four squadrons in wedge fort;ation. The
aircraft ' landed between 9:20 and 9:40 a-0m 0 A t.wwwo-r::an crow
in tandem was seen in the cock,:~it. The aircraft were
.equipped with four V,,eapons. A i"eapon was fitted on both
the right and left front side of t:.e cockpit, a third one
was: above and aft of the cockpit' while another one was in
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