ZERBST AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R014400430008-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2003
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 29, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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DATE OBTAINED.
REFERENCES
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DATE PREPARED-
2,_ Septertnber 1.952
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_ENCLOSURES (No. & TYPE) -? ._, 1. sketch on ditto
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Z The following air activity and aircraft Tiara observed at Zer bat ai.x fi Id
between 19 z11ily and 18 August 1952t
19 and ~2 Jul Eleven mvept-bat,k jet fighters fitted with auxiliary
.fuel tanks were co-anted at the field?
27 121-L. Six swept-back jet fighters which were not covered with tarpau-
25X1 lins were parked in groups of two about 200 meters from the eastern end
of the rsxrrtvay? (l. )
25X1 29 30 and 31Jujrr
individual swept-N
back j?r' g-Maxis w h auxiliary ue tanks o c o an landed at the f.iE ld?
25X1 2 August, eighteen swept-back jet
f'ight ?s and u in g one planes fitted with auxiliary f e1 tanks were counted
at the field, . These planes apparently were the only swept-.back jet fighters
parked outside the han
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jo
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ters
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~Ieww o re;r ~e eld corx from the west anc L_ _J
subsequently landed
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e aircraft were fittdith ail
e wuxiary fuel tanks z,
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CLASSIFRC 1T ION
several jet fighters took off,..
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there; was flyi n by e ept-back; Jet fighters
The -~1anes w
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. aux. iarar ue 3n cs" individual jet 25X1
fighters took: off and landed at the field after nightfall,
6 August. There was no f 7 ,
l,,ping throughout V is day. tt swept.back25X1
Jet fight'ers ;.were towed to the west en of the runwva Ye After a short time,
a small vehicle approached the left side of a jet fi;ih?iterS Short]; of te.wwards
the engine was started. The vehicle then moved to the other jet fighter and
repeated 'the same procedure. The two jet fighters took o.ff simultaneously in
a right echelon formation with a distance of 30 to ho meters between the t4ro
planes,. (2) two srrept aat
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July to 2-0 August 1952
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12 Au ust. In the rlorn3n ', 21. slvont-back jet firrhters were counted at 25X1
the field. Take-offs were r'tado by 1, s.vept-back Jot fi,-7 ;ters
-43-,d 2 swept-back jet fi titers with auxiliary fuel tanks ^'he
25X1 latter planes header: c^st:p four .swept-back jet fighters
with atl; Nary feel tame, ew over the .Meld in a four f~.n ;er - ormation
at an altitude of 00 rioters. Subsequently, the planes landed within 3
25X1 ninutesa two other swept-hack jot fi?hters with auxiliary
fuel tack, landed at the fielc: and, were towed by their tails from t, a run-
' a ,r and toward the Hangars by trucks.
25X1 1 A t. taro swept-bacly jot fi; titers with auxiliary fuel
tanks too': off. - ourteen swept-back jet fi ;?titers were parked at the field.
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2c, ",bout 50 f`acl containers with an estir:atoc: cap-incity of about 200 liters
25X1 each were located. in the fuel clu':tlpo I Is .x earth bunkers
which nro.jecteci about 1.5 rioters above c ;round
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34 Cu 27 July, I the radio truck vi11_i.ch was previously'
located near the radio in i v~ llatj on at the 21uniciAla, siri pin pool Vms
moved on to-p of an artificial elevation, consisting; of debris; north of
the swinrunin., pOOl. -. radio installation with two pasts was obser-ve in
the soultjn.estern corner of the field, north of the west end of the rurrv:a'y0
The masts were intorcorr!octed ::i.=1 a tt:in ;:~_r.r antenna.. `."ley had trian;;ular
francs on top, (6)
?t, r" re tar. c of ran 'es were in . orr condition and sec,-:le(?. to be Out of operation,