SOVIET AAA CAMP AT KORNEUBURG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R012100010009-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2002
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 16, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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FEB 1952
CLASSIFICATION SECT`
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
COUNTRY Austria
25X1(?UBJECT Soviet AAA Camp a- Korneuhurg
110 NU i t., ~ ~'~? U LA 1 E
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DATE DISTR. 16 may 1952
NO. OF PAGES
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SUPPLEMENT TO 25X1X
REPORT NO.
1. The Korneuburg AAA camp situated between Engeradorferstrasse1 Bisambergstrasse
and the Danube canal, consists of eight temporary barracks, all of the same
type and size, one gun hall and a number of smaller sheds. The area is
surrounded by a barbed wire fence and several poles with electric bulbs.
Sentries are posted at the entrance and the watchtower and two sentries
patrol the areas east and west of the barracks. The following installations
ate shown on the attached sketch:
a. main entrance with guard house and sentry
bo a shed different from the main barracks, use not known
c. fuel dump containing fire extinguishers and bearing the Russian inscription
no smoking"
temporary barracks, use not known
gun hall
16 AA guns in the open
g. 2 antenna masts connected by wire; poles 18 to 20 feet high
h. high pole connected by wire with the roof of a temporary barracks building;
on the,wires, a square wire framework which can be drawn back and forth,
probably as a target; two or three additional poles with aircraft models
atop
. watchtower
entrance which is seldom used
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k. main observation point; a closer approach to the barracks is not possible
because of open-space fields which provide no cover.
1. shallow depression, unsuitable for observation during the daytime
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At 1330 hours on 5 April 1952 three platoons left the camp, one of them
consisting of approximately 20 men who marched toward the engineer troop
barracks. The second platoon consisted of one officer and 36 men; the third
of one officer and.27 men. The platoons marched in rows of four. The soldiers
were approximately 20 years old, carried no arms and wore overcoats, black-
red service colors and mostly artillery insignia. At 1350 hours a detail
of 88 men left the camp and marched toward the engineer barracks; some of
them wore black. uniforms.
be an ammunition depot.
There was little vehicle traffic at the camp. At 1300 hours a black sedan
I I with one field grade officer wearing black-
red service color and artillery insignia left the building at Bisamberger-
strasse 30 and drove toward the cam. . A short while later two trucks,
Russian make, entered the camp. Five
trucks, including one cabin truck, were parked inside the camp.
North of Fnger.sdorferstrasse, surrounded by fields, are one large building
and a concrete structure which is half underground, enclosed by a double
wire fence and guarded. by two patrolling sentries. East of the building
there are a number of fire extinguishers. This installation is believed to
Two navy vessels, type unknown, were moored at the Kcrneuburg wharf.
At 13+5 hours on 5 April one jet fighter passed over the anti-aircraft camp,
flight direction NW - SE. At 1410 hours two single bi-engine planes passed
over, same flight direction, absolute altitude approximately 9,000 feet.
Trapezoid-shaped airfoils and a double tail unit were noted, probably Eft-2.
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