WELZOW AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009500340011-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 10, 2003
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: November 13, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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14 The runway and landir field of ..elzcx r airfield were completed on 8 Jctobor 1';51.
About 15 laborers were enga.;ed in cleaning-up. No parked aircraft were observedo
A biplane landed at the field and took off about 30 minutes later. There were no
indications of intended occupation. h guard detail of about 38 air,-:ien were
quartered in the northeastern corner of the #ioida
2, The M-6U runway was about 63 meters wide. Its concrete cover :aas 20 cry thick
according to workers, A taxiway about 2J meters wide was parallel to the runway,
(1) Tree new two-story brick buildings which vier still vacant were observed on
the edge of the woods, (2) No fuel dun-) or hangar as observed.. 'Mora was a sour
track at tin field.
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tween 8 a.m, and 2 p u, on 12 Jcto'.,er, no aircraft were onrhod at the field,
About 7 Ger;_ian civilian laborers torero :_'radin:; the area boti-.toen Cie. and
taxi ,,,my. Additional C-er:ten employees and laborers wore employed in the
constracti.in office and on other construction sites at the field. T1110 wo.:clon
barracks north ,ast of the field were still by a naxiY=1 0, 100 Soviet
air force soldiers, 1hhhe field was not yet
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Th0 field ,was occuo: cd irrj1 a soviet i1:i.r Corce f Lsr c. etail on 111 Jctohora lhrcc
officers a'.i.d about 20 ';1', :)f t7ai:, detail were observed on the firin-" Y`3'lgo, The
direction o ii' the runway was dc?toi :rained by nea'us of a compass at 220 to 230
degrees o .La v xiwivs about 1 - ! z i lon ", lad, from the northoa t o :)2 the r-u zvr
tmaard the 1t':, ^rarl:i'_ -: -:Pas+ d) u north and sJ :'t.'.: o2 the r'.i-.raair. A. hen:"si
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two ' t1r iCiS: j 1 to its fl ~ort. ioastorn side has at:)o i.t 1,,:.) r 'ter s 7 sa t of
triangulation point 116,3 (4)m The officers club, about 2- barracks buil.din-s,
and storage shads wer:., located? al-n- a road about 25- m:;t-or;, northwest of
triangulation .point 113 0 a (7) The old fuel d-z x) in the north Section of the
field was ro ia'rcd, It had ten pux: o: and }.:. z~ler