LAERZ AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R016100110003-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 3, 2011
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 17, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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motor vehicles 'sere observed ran the road to the billeting buildinx~s a, t!e
field-,
sentries wh^ were under the command, of an of:'icer,
3. The barriers on the . `'crow :',etzozv road were ruarded by an increased number of
area were in operation. A li~tle later, it was usually observed that indi --
dual VW-15s started flying.
the shipment was consigned to Shdanov, llerho:`,f
railroad station, airf icld !'any young officers were among the aersonnel.
2. every evening about 6 p.m, between 19 and 30 October, about 30 trucks with
E-' moved from. the billets in hechlin to Laerz airfield. After " p.m., two
searchlights including- one at the field and the other one at the barracks
rom each of the 10 railroad cars at Elltrholz railroad station.
lq Ch the evening of 19 October,
4. The following observations were made at the field between 27 October and 6
II ovemhe-r 1952:
27 October. Fifteen IiiG-15s with auxilianr fuel tanks were towed from. the
speFa rea along the canal to the eastern 'hardstand of the field. They
racticed indiviudal flying b?tvleen 9 a,m, and 3:30 p.m,, There was a 5/10
overcast, the cloud base being at an altitude of 1,000 meters.
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officers snd detrained
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ry . r ,, '12 ~1~'^ r`itti u:ii5ar;r .'~.uej ;.'.C i ;r-r++ to:":ad ..rora
E - ` al area along the canal to le e tern hf'rdr ta.icci t a-;C'i;.t, 11 ?"c:~
~4.r..(,, ?i:cil_ l ti yP ?ras air .c?V'Ati t ,,
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d+97?_.;e "n?' ue1'*1?. 1i{i, amt-3 the "lane .^.
'.t 3:30 'no.".i tree SLnrleW?n ine, iov:_wirtr: "'.orlt': l:^ nes loi.th radial -mf'inea,
landed at the y'ie1. -nd ta::ied
to the isr,ersal area alcu"' the carat..
29 Ccto1 ra .:ourteen'i--1G. ` ' liar-, fuel tanks r'.ere tcwed jroi the
7i IT ar-^a at the i'lir'ht crritrol station to the eastern hardstarvi0 :;etween
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0 a .. and 2 n,..::, ei ,t e the lanes xades individual There was
a /10 overcast at an aitit.ude of a'eout 1?3GC refers., Five pianefa
JC Oetrb;r,s j:t 7 12 ;`ic!'-lr-s v:ere towed from the dispersal area at she
_ :i v Ct?t2tC n ~'t1i7C' ine to the e "u~Yn :,ca. rdst.'..inO o They mLir"' in ividua:i. l5 f:ht$
:tetv.een a c .. Inc: o ere w ,s the sar-e t'i7^eat}?er cs on the rece'tinr' da;,'o
Five -^l tines
Alt 2 rJ t1;,, five single-engine,, oyi--r':ir monoplanes .:2u
radial :engines landed at the field and :':ere towed to the di.s-ersa=_ area at
the flight c, ntrel stctien_.,
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lVI 'IL -GF`ntrol s':.Iticn to the oil tern parr ta'le''., individual_ _ yin_`: :r's :pct ced
3-'r {' r. T r'? - '1J t OVc.:G=1... !z{: e.aE? 4?os ta. ,mayi:1n
betl4een as%o /+ e. o ~.t':f? ~,.y..^.5 rf,, Vie SI' :`lo
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at an altitude of :;out 00 f:`^ tr,rr 11 +' 'i t, `a^ ere . _th auxili ery
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I the ~ atter r... r'.e .'rr?s rf t ;: e-2n
stati.Cn:;
control station, and r "1 . ry S were en the mite of t e alert The rec'. ~.o
l.ir vr~ar 1dent.H'iar on :) rrnnonizanes at the ii'_;'h~t control
.revnT"bnr, 'yet :'loon 1 and 2 22 "i0-l. r' cans.: S =nL'l.e. {and .t e, lows'`: i ri rno-.
,: i --ly=: ' !! le~
c1no 1r{?re 'ar!ed en the s' :ersal are ^ Lou the: canal
i
^rtr '! I.v"', low-win!- :Tioncplane., arid 2 F-?2S ;'.erc' on the { is;~ersc;l area -t the fltf't1t
,h 'a??nelrroof aircraft revetments vrhich were cocpletec at the field ur tc 50X1-HUM
iacvn'her, included 11 in the ,cutheestern section north of the tacxiway, i.2 sc4uth
of the taxiway and 15 in the ,;rods on oth sides of the ...rcm-vetzow roade
At the latter side? murk ,till continued of five additional revet eats., 1Y-.e
concrete sections which -:,ere t.ein; !..lid sea^;.:?e{' 20 x 2~5 err P_ac r
,W Construction -ier':-, w s hein, done on a concrete roar, 1; r-eters a.'h,ic'l beh ins
at the ,oint Lore the to :ihsvay terrninat, s n the eastern har:.s wands and extends
along the ed e of the fence t?:a toward the 'ir. os-;:.tetzow read
the bunker. It vies cccu_;iet.3 to l^ air a e.rce mc1di. -rs;. it
P4 s --uardhnnse for the `entri^r, c r" t the e ,stera soction cf th fic-
c, v_ Ctll ~.ta"
7a ., Tara -e, about 7C x 2~) --eterr, was cc-nleted a',o,d, C .:nter~s east of the settle=
--lent next to `: ,~ c,^...al.; it :aar c,arrr,cnde a '.}hard fence about 2 terF:
T
e w-- " OCe'i I, i :?G T about O true:; ? ti7l^, ich '."ere --asked sin two lines one