ALTENBURG AIRFIELD

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R012900240005-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 17, 2002
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: June 24, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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240. Juno 1952
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1. Between 11:10 am. and 1 p.m. on 18 4pri:l. 1952, the following air activity .as
observed:
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Aircraft
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1 bipla ne
11:15 a.:,.
1 swept-back jet fighter
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1 biplane
11:45 " n
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1 biplane
Eetwcen :loon and 12:30 p.m., 'there was local flying by biplanes, ~lova z trans::f-Ortr
were par',-ad east of the runway, ':yaintenanee work r,as bein ; done on for planes.
J bi..Ian3 landed at the field at 10M a ou. on 22 li:)ril and took off again at
10:30 a.m. Between 10:20 and 10:50 a.n0, l11t transports :ver.o cou t.ed on the edge
of the woods cast of the runway, .:aJ_ntenanco -pork was being; done on the aircraft.
Let-acen I0;>0 and. 11 a.m. on 2L April , no flying could ho observed because of
grow.d fog. No aircraft were observed at the field. i3etlvo, rn 9:5) and 10:30 a - rlu
on 26 ;pril, there was no fl-yin.-,, apparently because of 1:ad o':e,3t''hor, Three ',~.'LGr-15,..
and it transports were parked on the lanclin: field, ='et,vreori 9:25 and 10:05 a
on 30 April, there was no flying at t e, field. One single-en .;in` plane with an
in-line aigineg 4 11i0- 15s and 17 transports were arked on the edge of the weeds
east of the rurr:rayb The field was observed bet-icon 9:43 and 10:35 a.r ,, on L ~. ya
only one transoort took of at 10:17 a.m. Lwent-three tr.anseerts wer parked at
the edge of the woods east of the runway.
2. The cleared area on the northern edge of the field was being covered with a layer
of send 0,8 to 1.2 meters deop~ she sand was hauled to the field on a narron-gauge
field: rail.~ray8 Two Diesel engines a rtd 300 to .OJ civilian workers .very employed.
Two graders were used for grading the terrain at the end of the runway) On 25 ''1.pril,,
five field railway trains with dump cars were observed,, Two trains were to-.Jed by
Diasel locomotives and the other five trains by steam loeo:cotives:, *
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thre,,:! kitchens at the field. one of which served the officers while the second
one served the air and technical personnel. In the third mess, 350 to 400 persons
could eat at the same tiro . At the time of observation, personnel ate in three
shifts there.
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All of the aoviot soldiers who entered and left the - field wore bla c2:--
bo 'dosed blue e.oall .ot5,, incliZdirg BOW ".7i" Ca pro: ell or insimia on their
epaiiletsa iersoniol -r'ith rod-bordered black epaulets were no loner
obsor ved? ?% ,~ On 30 &ipril, about; 6C men practiced 'irin g with rifles and
Vubr achi:ne guns on t ho target ranges,;,
C , The texiw r is being extended to the north. According to
25X1 A a .t ble !nfor .ticxn, the work prog ressos slwly probably because of a
shortage in worker ,, Aoo~1ne to a newspaper a .vertiseffient.co atruction
u s are y equfreci the Altenburg Construction Site of aiwntm Leipzig
Uommentc. i3. soldiers wearin- red-bordered black epaulets, who were
25X1A prev:iou reported., were probably airborne who practiced with the air
transport regiment in Altenburg,, 'heir present location is not k no7m?
3 ? I Corxaont, The report confirms that 11,lteaburg airfield is still.
25X1 A cEcu i-ac by an air transport rogi;,ient which is equip aed with Li-2s,, The
observed jet fighters probably are an alert .flight, an advance detail of a
fighter red ir!ent with air defense trissions,, Foi3r ,jot fighters we're'
continually observed at the field,
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