OTOPENI AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011000490001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 18, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
CLASS IF ICATIOI ON
COUNTRY RLmzan.ia
25X1 SUBJECT Otopeni Airfield
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DATE DISTR. 18 March 1952
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
1ATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
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Sketch map of the field (one page).
Legend of map ; 1 4 ;;fetal hangars.
5 Underground gasoline tank
6 9 Brick walled hangars
10-19 Wooten barracks of the German type
20-.23 Mowed -lawn
24,?25 Concrete runways,.about 30 meters broad.
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to The airfield is on the northern edge of the village of Otopeni about
400 m east of the main auto road from Bucharest to Ploesti: The field is
grown over with grass, has excellent drainage and can be used in any weather.
There are two concrete runways, which can be used by the heaviest planes.
2. .An access road runs to the barracks of the 2 Pioneer Regiment in Otopeni,
about 1 km south, in the direction of BucharestR The usual winds blow from,
north to south and east to west, which is why the runways are placed as they
are. At the beginning of December 1951, 35 or 40 Soviet jet fighters were
observed at the field.
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