BRIESEN AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00418R005900010001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 13, 2007
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 1, 1956
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
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 Briesen Airfield .ham
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report on Briesen airfield
which gives information under the following ea ngeo (1) Legend to ketch,
(2) Concreting and (3r) Supply of Building Material. A sketch showing the railway
spur is also included. 25X1
STATE ARMY
(Note: Washington distribution indicated by "X"; Field distribution by "#".)
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EAST GERMANY
AIR
BRIESEN Airfield
June - 5 July 56)
CONSTRUCTION
1. Appendix ".A"
Att;Iched at Appendix "A" is an overlay, on GERMANY 1: 25,000 AMS
series M 841, 3rd Edition, Sheet 404.8 sho.iin ; the railway spur,
sidings and encampment of BAU UNION SUD to the NORTH of SCHONWALDE
Railway Station.
KEY 1. Railway spur approx. 70 m long.
2. Three sidings of-c spur.
3. Small gauge railway line leading off to the North.
4. Ramp,
5. Six wooden huts housing the offices, some accommodation,
the kitchen and the recreation roomc'the BAU UNION SUD
detachment.
Concreting
(a) The concrete is mixed on the site of the railway sidings and taken
away Noithwards on the small gauge railway line.
(b) Apart from the previously reported 55,000 square metres of
concrete of 20 cm thickness (2 roads of 9 and 12 metres width
respectively) a further 10,000 square metres of concrete of
unknown thickness are to be laid down by BAU UNION SUD in the
immediate airfield area.
(c)
At present 1,500 - 2,00:": square metres of concrete surface are
being laid per day.
3. Supply of Building Material
15 - 20 wagons of building; material have continued to arrive for
BAU UNION SUD at SCHOENWALDE each day. The majority of these were
laden with gavel, ballast and cement.
4. Envisaged date of completion
All concreting by BAU UNION SUD is due to be completed by the end of
August 1956.
of contr. ei.e was reported
I Reference para. 2(b) Eno proposed laying of 55,000 square metres
II Every effort is being made to establish the exact location and
exten"", of the concrete surfaces.
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