ORANIENBURG AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010700380001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 2006
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 5, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC Q anienburr7 Airfield
EVALUAT!'ON
DATE OF CONTE
DATE OBTAINED.
REFERENCES
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.DATE PREPAREDY.? d bruari 1952
the trains which had left Oranienburg
on 29 and 31 Decer:''er 195 and on 2 January 1952 went to `Ichacksdorf near
Fi.nstervralde, * At 6:35 a,.m. on 4 January a train of 10 boxcars and 20
gondola cars arrived in Cranienburg, The boxcars were occupied by E1 who wvorro
black-bor iered blue er,aulets and the gondola cars were loaded with 2 sedans,
about 18 truck s, 12 tractors vrith trailers
-.*Ach were loaded with poxes, 14. ru bera z.rc House trailers and 2 tank trucks
i .fh trailers
2. Bfstween 9 a.n. and 1 perri., on 9 JanuaY,, no aircraft were parked at the fields
open and erripty0 iP,*,
T le large hangar on the northern edge of the field was
All the dispersal areas at the field were observed? Seven empty flatcars
and about 6 boxcars loaded with old billeting; equipment stood on the spur
track of the field. Fso radii in nbsn-rved in Elign, Pastern and
northern sections of the field
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e eme..l s of an air : o ce construction unit from u nr og .
Co vent, This intonation cony irms the evacuation of the field by
CLASSIFICATIOt "TALCS AT- 9v1 IC1,I 0,1MY
Bc:twean 1:30 and 3 p.m. on 11 January, no aircraft were observed at the
f i.eld & A wind was seen: No radio installations or navig;atin instruments
w? rc observed o There was no flyin Between
9 and 11 a,rno on 1h Januar-y. no aircraft were observed at the field. Motor
vehicles observed which was driven by a
soldiar wearing re r. or Bred black epaulets, it y additional motor vehicles
mc--re observed east of Baerenklau Bridge, A group of not more than five
s.L.rveyors filho wore red-bordered black epaulets was seen north of the field.
I Conurent? Such shipments have not been reported
Ac.cor ling to some confirmed statements, the bomber regiment and its ground
ui .it were, transferred to Brand 'in late December 19,51? If the statements of
prove to be correct it appears that part of the bomber regir:.ont was
transferred to Finstervralde,, This possibility is supported by the-.report
ft-at nine _!at bonbers were first observed in Finsterwalde on 10 J~nuaxy 1952,
'.:'he regiment in Brand apparently had a smaller
. J _ J , at the time it was still stationed in Oranienburg,;
Sin
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the jet bcr. ber regir. nt which was transferred to Brand on 26 December 1951.
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