FINSTERWALDE AIRFIELDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009800340007-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 12, 2002
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: December 5, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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C"TRY Cxermany (Soviet Zone) TZEPnRT NO.
TOPIC Finsterwalde Airfields
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EVALUATION see below PLACE OBTAINED
DATE OF CONTENT 28 October to 13 November 12 .r)l
DATE PREPARED 5 December 19 5 L
DATE OBTAINED
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ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE) 1 sketch on ditto
?rucl went to the field. (I.) At 3 p.M, on 2 November, three railroad tank
cars which wore full of red colored fuel l: ft the field. Accordin to the
inscriptions on the tank cars they had a capacity between 190 and 300 hectoliters. (2)
2. On L November 1951) 11'instengwalde=n7est airfield was unoccupied and unguarclad, TYio
mobile radio installations were observed on. the western edge of the field. they had
not been th 11 ber. One of the radio trucks was a three-axle truck with
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The radio installations were still on the western e oe o ?
Between 1 and 4 p.m. on 2 November, there was no flyint; at r'insterwaldee airfield.
The weather was hazy. Ten dark green thin--engine aircraft with dou' le rudder
assemblies were parked south of the runway. Trucks 5
were on the road from Nehesdorf toy the airti? . The ra~3o1 C
I installation with. o sts was still west of the field. (It)
Comments,
(1) According to o servations by another sour'ce. Finsterwalde airfield is still
occupied by two bomber regiments whicho according; to other sources, are equipaed
exclusively with Pe-2s. Sources could not observe all the aircraft stationed at
the field,, because there were some -nan;ars whose interior could. not be obeerved.
(2) The infcppt4?@d#AYR$1@At6o21b8143 0607 4t be explained.
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Between 3 and 4:30 p.m. on =18 Nove .:berg 28 Pe-2s were countcci at Finsterwalde air-
field but additional 7)lan.es were stationed there
1}, Finstorwalde-Wiest airfield wae> not occupied between 2 and 2:45 p.m. ' on 13 Novcmher.
dm f th, field (3)
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(3) For location of radio installations, see Annex. It is possible that
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lation with four masts is an Adcock DF station which was
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