COTTBUS AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R012300390007-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 24, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: May 20, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC-Cottbus Airfield
r).TP nr f`_fMPT'Prr 8 April to 2 1Q
EVAL UATION see below
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.DATE PREPARED 2J '-:2Y 1952
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1. Yeti,een 12:30 and 12:50 1-n. on 1952, there ;.as no fly n; at Cottbw;3
airfield. Two jet bo:;:})ers, about ]1... Pe-2s and 2 fare trans-,ort:.: iero parked
in front of the han; ars. Between 3 and 3:20 on 9 ti;)ril, jet bombers
practiced flying in sunny weather. The #ollariing ;
take-offs arid land rn. s were
observed:
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2:16 p.: -.
2:23
2:25
2:26 ~,.-.
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2:3 3
2:40
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2:47
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1 jet bomber
1 Jet bomber.
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L3etwe ;n ?.D:3C and 13:53 on 12 A;,ril,
t 1ere aG ~,n
`eathar was ''a.nraf,"1a_
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;vas r3;x3aten y . o scrvQC tahjn * off
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