1. BAUTZEN-LITTEN AIRFIELD 2. HUSAREN KASERNE IN BAUTZEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001900210008-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 24, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: July 1, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Bautzen-Litten Airf1elc.
2. Husaren Kuserne in Bautzen
see below
EVALUATION -_-..-__-.-.PLACE OBTAINED
19 April to 19 P?sy 1953
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_REPORT NO.
,DATE PREPARED 1 July 1953
ENCLOSURES M. & TYPE)
1. On 16 May 1953, 20 VP soldiers were laying runway mats at Bautzen-Litten
airfield. The auxiliary runway extended to the east across the Purschwitz-
Neuparschwitz road, about as far as kilometer marker 5.1 on the Bautzenn-?
Weissenberg road. There, the terrain had to be raised for a further
extension of the runway and the required sand had already arrived. Earth
piles in the northeastern section of the field were being leveled by means
of a dredger and the earth was trucked away for grading the field area.
Four dredgers were used in the northwestern section of the field and two
dredgers were observed near the entrance on the southwestern edge of the
field, The field boundary was guarded by one VP sentry each at the
southwestern and southern entrances and a civilian of the Bauunion was
posted on the northern border, at the barrier across the Neupurschw:itz-
Purschwitz road.
3. Between U and 14 May, source observed that runway mats were being hauled
on lorries from the storage) site on the northern outskirts of Neupurschwitz
to the landing field on which they were being laid to a point in line with
kilo meter marker 5.4 on the Neupur schwitz-Wurschen road. A temporary
building for the workers was erected in the northwestern corner of the
field south of Litten.
4. The husa ren Kasern.e in the southeastern section of Bautzen, is bordered,
to the. north, east and south by a 2.2.-meter-high brick wall with barbed
wire on top and to the west by an iron fence. The main entrance is at the
western side and closed gate is at the eastern side. On 16 M.471,, civilian
cars with masons, and ainters4 equipment entered the Husaren Kaserne, trucks,
loaded with iron plates, each 3 to 4 meters long,
30 to 40 cm wide and with a special profile, left the installation. About
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20 tracks were parked in the barracks yard in front of garage No 8.
In the morn:tng of 19 May, about 100 VPL troops were drilling in the
'barracks yard ands within one hour, eight trucks loaded with metal
plates left the installation head.`?5.ng toward bitten.
On 18 May, the western runway strip of about ?,0000 meters was covered
with runway amts which had been stored at the field. A total of about
1,000 laborers were employed at the field. F -1 a 25X1
portion of . them was to be transferred to Welzcw and Bremenhain. No
aircraft were parked at the field:, Four dredgers were seen in the western
section of the field and one dredger in the eastern section. The Bauunion
South, Dresden, was charged with construction work. Individual VP soldiers
with blue collar patches were observed at the field.
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C vment,, Construction work at Bautzen.Litten airfield has progressed
at a comparatively
rapid speed. The storage of runway mats was previously
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reported,,
It is believed that the runway will
be completed in the near future an a length of more than 1,000 meters has
probably been covered with runway rusts
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