DESSAU AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006600160001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 6, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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On 29 October 1950, 22 single-seater, Jet fighters with swept back wrings,
three single-engine, lowing monoplanes, and five biplanes were seen at
the Dessau (11, WE 06) airfield. (1) There was little flying by jet planes,
2. On 2 November, about 20 jot fighters the field. Maintenance work
2) A small red device Projecting from e air in
elgnT, jet planes. A biplane and three conventional fighters were at the
take-off point.
3. There was no flying on 2 November. The weather was hazy. A radio mast,
about l meters high and braced with insulated guy-wires)and a radio truck
were in the northeastern corner of the field. (3) Two more radio trucks
with whip antennaewere at the flight control station. (4)
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covered with tarpaulins were seen on the eastern edge of the field. There
was no flying on 4 and 5 November. The visibility was very bad. No motor
vehicles were seen,
6, A radio station was in the northeastern corner of the field, about 200 meters
from Kuehnau Strasse. (3) It consisted of'a radio truck next to an individual
radio mast. The mast was from 12 to 15 meters high, braced on 25X1dep and
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(5) The area west of the field was searched or a r
se , ationa of theosence of radio sets were observed.
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had a red flag about 30x0 cm on the top. An open truck with a
mounted searchlight was about 50 meters from the radio truck.
There wer-, no hangars, at the field. A building on the eastern
edge was apparently reconditioned as a workshop. lto boundary
lights or AA gm emplacements were seen. (6) There were obstacle
lights on smokestacks and in the immediate vicinity of the field.
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The jet plates are Igig-15s. About 50 aircraft of this type were
allegedly si,ati.oned at the field on 23 October 1950 when the field
was last obE:erred. The exact number of I.ig-l5s is
not known but is estimated at a m um of 30. The field is occupied
by one fighter regiment. The single-engine, low wing monoplanes are
nnssibly Yak.-l:ts or ULA-7s. The biplanes are P0-2s,
truco s~possiL control the fighters. while in flight,
his unconfirmed information is douZte The fue dump owe--field is
southwest of tie landing field.
Other sources zave not seen AA gun emplacements.
The esence o:' the mobile radio station , as previously reported
the same sourc, an 3 con irmed by another source in paragraph 60
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