WERNEUCHEN AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009300140009-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 29, 2002
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: October 25, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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ne?ichen Airfield
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fll,N .D ,.-.....,.DATE PREPARED 25 October 1951
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n. 7NGLOSURES (N4. & TYPE)
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yt7veen 10 and 21 September 1951, 4,017 workers were employed
neuchen airfield. An area of 242 9000 square meters of the
-,mway and taxiway was concreted. (1) Most of the laborers were
ar? 11-ing on the last 500 meter stretch of the eastern end. Work
m;-,letion. The west lane which connected the runway with the
x ..lay was still under construction. V:or'k was begun on an
c.:; it ionai hardstand west of the taxiway. Twenty-four hardstands
n:.xture used for the circular taxiway and the connecting
'ac-IL below that used for the runway. k:cavating for the
_ )i._1roed spur track had progressed as far s the southwestern
)u.ada ~.,y 01 the old landiing f field in 17.ne -.-ith the westernmost
Lai3'Qr-'-'rs lane were PVUV.L: LL iJ.y 1LVi4J4LL A-1A 4&-..L and a3eiersdorf were auartered in h in gar V. Sc.,urce Aid
jc=~he:? aarl construction ,superintendent said that
c .;I-sr construction ,,as to be done at the field by about 19000
:acted workers .
g the reported per:'iodmaintennance work on aircraft vias
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c1 3-I.y,, Sour?ce observed :1.3 twin--engine planes fitted with
r_.--ub1_e rudder cssenblies housed in the westernmost h=ing~r. The
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. rudder assemblies. Also an unbor_ dered red star was being
r~ov ded with Soviet starsm The engines
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lanes were started. Some of the planes taxied and
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ss it in "file engines, tail assemblies, and wings ao. already
-ac-n remcoved from some of them. Tan wzn s had been crated , About
1 i.nrg crates for jet eng .r s e also seen and tarpaulins
be ?.rEg carried to the site
o' .roe ,-ez ieved that the planes observed were ei g m, .r
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