TUTOW AIRFIELD

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00418R000500090006-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 17, 2009
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: August 15, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Tutow Airfield
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
15 August 1955
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REQUIREMENT NO. RD
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SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE
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1. Generals
Only final clearance work has been undertaken on this airfield project during
the four weeks prior to the close of the reporting period. The numerous faults
in the concrete runway have all been repaired, and all buildings have been com-
pleted and painted.
The airfield was accepted by the Soviet authorities on 10 April 1955, and a
flying unit was rumored to be moving in on 1 May.
2. Fuel Installation:
An elementary ventilation system has been added to each of th 40 x 24,000 -
liter fuel tanks located in the airfield fuel installation. Through the man-
hole-shaped cover of each cylindrical fuel hank a metal pipephbout 30 cm in
diameter, protrudes through the hatchway. Each pipe feeds into a similarly
shaped central pipe which runs along the gap between the two rows of five tanks
comprising each of the four beds in the depot. From this common pipe line pro-
trudes a large ventilator tube, about four or five meters in height.
No system of interlocking fuel pipes or any form of pumping equipment was in-
stalled on the installation prior to its being taken over by the Soviet authori-
ties,
3. Munition Depot:
Work ceased on this site during mid-April, and the depot has been accepted and
taken over by the Soviet authorities. Each of the three wooden storage sheds
have been given a coat of black. paint, and a layer of rubbery pitch-like sub-
stance, about five cm. in thickness, has been uniformly laid over each of the
interior concrete floors.
Three lightning conductors, each about 30 to 4.0 cm in length, have been fitted
on the apex of the roof of each of the three sheds.
A triple wire overhead electrical power system. has been laid between this depot
and the transformer located on the western side of the airfield fuel installa-
tion. An entire lighting system has been set up about three meters inside the
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entire barbed-wire perimeter fence surrounding this depot and connected to the over-
head power grid from the airfield. There are no electrical or other fittings in any
of the three storage sheds, each of which is completely bare and without any li htin
whatsoever. Two hand-operated water pumps have been constructed on the site.
A wooden watch tower has been built in each of the four corners of the 2.5 meter-
high barbed-wire perimeter fence. Along the outside of this entire fence a strip,
has been cleared and levelled. A concrete road, about five meters in
width and 15 to 20 cm in thickness has been laid to connect this munition depot to
the northeast corner of the airfield. As of 23 April, this entire depot was empty
and completely unguarded.
4. Power $u 1y:
There is no main generator on the airfield, the electric power being. supplied by
an overhead grid system consisting of four heavy wires which connect the brick-
built transformer joining the fuel installation to a similar transformer located
on the southeastern side of the village of Tutow, from where it joins the local
overhead high-tension grid.. A stand-by generator has been built in the north-
east corner of the airfield,
b. From the airfield transformer two overhead power lines lead as follows:
1 . To the munition depot located northeast of the airfield,
2, To the airfield control tower.
co A series of single insulated heavy cables have been laid to a depth of 80 cm
below the surface to various points around the airfield, In all cases a
trench was dug out and the cable(about four cm in thickness) laid along the
bottom. A normal rough domestic brisk was then placed across the cable and the
earth pushed back into the trench. he route followed by these underground cab-
les is as follows.
1. Transformer to stand-by generator.
2, 0ontral tower to eastern point of runway where there is a series of under-
ground pipe lines beneath the runway.
3. From stand-by generator to the northern perimeter of airfield.
44 A circuit around the entire runway, about 1.5 meters from its outer edge,
5. From the northern and southern ends of the runway to two adjoining concrete
platforms believed to ue sites for future radio installations,
There are num3rous junction boxes located on the surface above this underground
system No permanent lighting system has been built into
the concrete runway, nor have any radio installations been constructed.
5. Aircraft
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No attempt was made at constructing the aircraft blast pens around the fifty dipersal
hard-stands on the airfield. Near the majority of these hard-stands there were
piles of prefabricated concrete sections, but on 23 April a special {w:
Bruck arrived on the airfield and commenced to load the sections onto other trucks.
Cne of the drivers stated that the concrete components were to be dispatched to
Gross Doelln airfield.
Personnel:
At the close of the reporting period there remained a total of about 110 workers
from the Dau Union Brandenburg engaged in the official cleaning of the airfield
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and the loading of equipment onto trucks and railway cars . All workers
had been given notice for transfer effective of 1 May.
b. The only Soviet national remaining on the airfield at the close of the reporting
period was a Soviet air force major,
c. A party of 10 blue-uniformed Volkspolizei men arrived on 18 April to take over
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