SOVIET MILITARY CONSTRUCTION IN THE DDR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R012800200004-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 2002
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 9, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

INFORMATION REPORT CD NO
CLASSIFICATION
SEOTJRITY .1~'OBM iON
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY` REPORT NO.
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COUNTRY GerrnlrAy (Russian zone)
SUBJECT Soviet Militar1 Construction in the DDR
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DATE DI aTR.. 9 July 1952
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1., in Gro>seexthrain (i!;2/,1O1) a Russian airfield. is being constrtuc-tc 6. under
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The 112. kbteilunr, Tiefbau" (Department, liiniber 2,, Underground =.tructures)
is serving as cover for the construction of a circular r ai1.1'.ra;r (R n7bahn) o
.;bout .12 dispersal areas for natoriel and aircraft are located along this
railway,, Structures dUcCed. to be potato bunkers are being built in the
Fkrrundv They are provided with thick concrete walls These hu.rizers are
sllepedl.y to be used in the future as, s",_Cnai centers. *"ar>,r sturdily con.-
stricted streets are bring built on the airfield grounds,
2:, In 1.95.., it was planned to spend one :nJ 11ion Br,'E on the aiw-- f io l.c.y 3 ,~a
rtil.lion F, t:ere to be spent in 1952. AccordiriL, to estiuates ~ ado k r
experts_, total Investments made in the airfield will amount to at least:
1) to 20 million DflE,
Construction is under the direction of a Russian captain.y, (fact) `arienl'..o',
fran the corr,,iand. post in Wilnsdorf 0'.53/Z 91) near y'e.riin., At present,
about 300 rorlcer s? are played at the airfield project,, but soon this
number is to be increased to 6004 By July 1952., there are to be 1,000
m on . in the Abteeilung Tiefbau
; present. both construction projects are under the dt.rccwiO;;e cf the
x au-TTrd.on '.Dresden. In the futures however. the Russian construction
;:Tana; er3hip . Lech -vr1U also l: corn:nitte=d to the projects.
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