DESSAU AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010700260004-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 2, 2006
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 1, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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I. T3otwaer V: December 1751 and 7 Jaruanr < C; f ss r, nnmininrl
by about 50 1'i,-10S and 5 bip1ancs.
.;o .flying was observed betvreet 10 an . ece.:i,:yer, on 26, 29 and 30 December.,
and on 1, 2, 5, 6 and 7 January., The no-i ce of en, nos was heard but no take-
offs were observed between 11:30 a..n,, and 2 p.n.. or, 2t. December and between
7 and t' as 10 on 27 Dece.:aber; two planes ' r ith sot position lights,, ap,arently
1:biplanes, circled over the tcrrz between 5 and 7. porn? on 2t Deceriber0 On 31 De-
conber, the noise of engines nas beard from the field boty:eon C and 9 a,m0 and
individual IL-10s circled over the f ~_eld 1 etwwreen 9 a.n. and 3 p.n individual
IL-10s flow circles over the field bb >twoor.. 10 a,,t, and h p,m0 an 3 Janu r0 Two
biplanes with set position li hts flew over the field and the tovrn between 5 and
6 p?ri0 on January, while a rotary aoarcl:li;ht probably mounted on a truck,
was in operation at the field. during the reriod of fl ring
Two now low wooden buildings, one of which was partly underground , were con-
structed close to the radii o installation cn the southern edge of the field.
Oor; trra.ction work was be:i.r.?; done on r wooden shed and two low buildings on the
northern ed"c of the field, _I rod antenna 3 to ); meters long projected, from the
roof ; f the wooden shed at an angle serf about 75 dogreeso A wooden tourer was
close to the wooden shed. The for er Otto Mader Plant was still occupied by the
airfie:;.d norsonnel0 *
Oo:::ent4 The repo " "'e ^a,z airfield is still occupied by a
;round at ac? i e ;irzeR t The data on fl.-ring ng a ;ree with the
observations b ? other sources except, that on, 5 January- 1952 intensive flying
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