CONSTRUCTION OF AUXILIARY AIRFIELDS IN YUGOSLAVIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011300090006-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 2006
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: March 31, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Yugoslavia
25X1 SUBJECT Construction of Auxiliary
Airfields in Yugoslavia
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-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
DATE DISTR. 31 March 1952
NO. OF PAGES 2
NO, OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
25X1 1, The following auxiliary airfields were under construction in Yugoslavia during
the period from May to July 1951;
a. An airfield located northeast of Demirovac in Pakrac, Bosnia, was being
constructed in a former wooded area which was sparsely covered with
wild vegetation. This airfield can be reached by way of the Demirovac-
Crahovo road. The preliminary work of blasting tree stumps, clearing
shrubs and bushes, and filling in small ditches and hollows in the
ground, was begun during May 1951. An area some 200x?00 meters was
cleared for the airfield by men attached to an unidentified Air Co s
labor unit. This labor unit, composed of some 70 men_,
25X1 is a component or the Zagreb
it Command. The men of this unit had been working on the area for
two months. Shovels, spades, picks, axes, wheelbarrows and other equip-
ment were observed in the area.,
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b. An airfield is located some eight kilometers southeast of Bos Dubica, near
Kostajnica Mirkovac, Croatia, and is some 2,000x700 meters in size. On
one side of this field, the terrain is rather hilly and uneven, several
of the hills being 10 and 20 meters in height. The other side of the air-
field has level terrain which is covered with dense forest vegetation.
some 1,000x300
me ers of the area where the airfield was to be constructed, had been
cleared. The clearing and leveling of this area was done by the same un4-
specified Air Corps labor unit which cleared the Demirovac area.
2. Work at the two auxiliary airfields was ins , , rl once by an unidentified Air
Corps lieutenant, and twice by an unidentified Air Corps major. When completed,
the two airfields will be used as secre aux- e ti ' t --of
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