KUNNADARAS AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009900360008-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 23, 2003
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: December 17, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC K daras Ai.rfi,^Id
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DATE OF CONTENT S?r'Ur"n 1251
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17 December 1951
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at Kunnadaras air-
field. said that, in.the sum icr of 1951, -the field had been. enlarCed and im-
proved by inmates of an internment camp. The capacity of the canp eras about
2,000 Teen.
The field :ra:3 all ;cdly occupied b,y 2tt jet planes, some fi ;hters9, and Buecker
trainers. Only politically reliable officers were allegedly allowed to fly jet
aircraft beca~ise in the suer-ier of 1951, some members of the field had fled on
four planes to auk oslaviaa A small, Soviet training staff who retrained Iran-
;arian pilots on jet planes was also said to be stationed at the field.
netor ?at Ku. ~radaras airfirlc.. I I Although the statements
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pilots are bcin; retrained there or jet planes by a ;ovict trainin" staff.
CLASSIFICATION r
Szolnok ^ 43/0 37) airfield, construction of a concrete runtray'at !',unradaras
(R ht8/J 30) airfield was completed in the summer of 195L she field was
allegedly occupied by Soviets equipped with jet planes.
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Approved For Release 2004/01/28 : CIA-RDP82-00457R009900360008-0