BRANDIS AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013100310009-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2006
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: July 7, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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On 7 !."ay 1952, a strip, about 250 meters wide r on the
extension of the ruruiay was levelled and tat the largest portion of this ?;trir
was alret;.dy :;overed with grass. .lest c y? this strip there W_eIre two rectan ua:i er
piles of ljrht-colored sand. Another s,xdlar site .-:as located east of the :'um?iay
beyond Pclen:a Leulitx ?oad,. (1)
2, The radio in-,tailati on east of the f''_nld was Still t`h.ere A Six Soviet soldit r-s
w o wore hla~~k bordered tale blue en,=::alets and wore accompanied by fire po_-rice
dogs were ob.3erved nearby. (2)
3, On 19 !,V:;,, there was flyin,r at the b+ rirer~alt,
(3) Twelve "' itx-l5s were counted at the field. 0n 21 ray,
25X1 16 1'.iG l5s were observed flying,. An alert flight of four '"'X-15,s a oark;.,d on
the east end of the rurrn4y. At night . all aircraft incluc' inr the a Lert. fl_i ~t
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L ,) n 21 i , there as no flying at ~, e f i lc :
except for the take-off and dc:pa.rti., of` seven -iG>-?l5sn On 26 ant 7 'IL, there
25X1 was no air activity. On 2? ;'ay sere . aiu-15; landed at the f iel
25X1 n , ,.ay, seven ..a - 5 s took off su:-cessively,, The first plane i:h ch rol~_ed
along a take-off run of about 800 ne ;;sx s was airborne. after 114 seconds. It took
another E seconds before the other s-ix '."iG-15s were airborne, so that the entire
f orrlatioa^ wa:; aloft after 20 seconds,, (5)
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600 to 700 meters, Of the four jurn or only the first mme had one parach.ut , hile
the other th:,?ee had two parachutes, .'''?.E: second Parachute, opened a short, tine after
the parachut st leaped a The second ~a:. e r.-`r~.ute was as large as the first one but it
apparently had shorter oorr1s. The trm tararhutps opened side by side, At the s=tf!7e
tire on i June, jury,-s were made fro-=.:'_ Li--2 over the same area, Fourparach,.itists
only one juttper?. At the second n ron-vh four jur.+pers T oed frnn an altits~{'
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On 1 and 2 J}ane, there was no flyi.n-r except in the later afternoon when a 11-2
circled the vicinity of the field L" ~n altitude of about 00 meters o It ap,;eared
that the plane flew for guard purpose-7,. rho ,-grass on the lindin f _eld was
being nosed by farmers, At 4:3o a,w.a on 3 June, rer+a 't e1}M:.r;e
being; warmed, up. At? 5:',5 aomb, an Li-? tro':h off and made a large left curvo
about l 1e northwest of the field o war the I3randis- orscivr.f-rh el.sdorf area
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each were released during three aprroF b? f'li' htu. The jLdISlaers were party
equipped rith one or two parachutes? i):.ri the ncrrin. ' tl-iere was fly-in;-
by a formation o_4' four "iG-lss
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Jo At C, n. on 5 June parachute jumps e made e"rn ^ '-;r`l1t ::"' north-
west of the f i_eld, -ach 1 ur"ner was a 7Ll'_G . ed with one parac