STRAUSBERG AIRFIELD AND AIR FORCE UNIT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003800370009-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 11, 2006
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: November 3, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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REPORT
1T1RAUSBE?GAirfield and "Ir Force Units
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DATE OF
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PAGES 2 ENCLOSURES (Na. & 1YPE)..._.,,-
REMARKS._ o_.
30 Au ust 1949
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1. The SYRIA!. S13y G (a.NT 53/11 15) ai rf ie M. was oonuple d by a formation
o: grin-en z3.ne bombers, vthich Old only a little flying. The
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airfield ?^Yes recently . surrounded by a r/foot board fence,., It
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was observed that during night flying the field had boundary
lights. Tana trucks I I hauled fuel
from the railroad station to the. airfield..
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2,, September 1949
Boring and grinding machines were bau143 from the airfield to
the railroad station at night and loaded on oars. The Soviets
were recently forbidden to enter inns or fraternize irlith
German families.
3t '2. Sectcrib er l98
Tat Col TIMOFRYEV, CO of the airy force depot in the former
rolling mill, left for the SU with his family
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4:. 5 - 10 So ot ebb er 1949
The air force unit previously quartered on r'."riezener Strasse
seen to l
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eave w
was
th dependents and furniture. About a
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hundred railroad cars were loaded. The above-mentioned twin
engine aircraft, however, were still stationed at the airfield
on 10 September 1949. A formation of 25 fighters circled
the airfield without landing. The field was being enlarnecl,
1;o the southeast. **'r The obstacle lights in STRATTOPERG,
previously in operation every ni!?ht, had not been used since
9 September 1949.
7 ej tembe 9
presence of tttiin-engine aircraft
the field. CONFIDENTIAL
P! ACEOC3TA1NED,
CONvnL/US OFFICIAL, ONLY
This document Is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL In accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
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Next Review Date: 2008
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reCii eryt ,jas transferred to YE-2: were ob-
oe trau in on lv je;)to;sbcr 1949
. The try. nncfez of tie foru,ur CC of the ai:c forcc
depot, is conf ir~.ied. O Lt Cal V'I.:;.uFZ SV iu prob.bly Lt Col
r..ported t:l be Cu of the -ir force repot.
Thiu is the first ini"..,ru tion thQt :.:a j was Lt Col
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TL..C;;'1:YLV's predeceoaor of t ;e force depot. siaj x;Iis.IT ID
is probably the Cart -.I.,I'.i1I j' observed in +~.::ka: ~ _.i> :-G JD July
1947
on is
col2 __...:ed
(X) io be i.j fe_:cc aroun,,L tho irfi,eL
0100 Dr?VZ6una y reported (xx).
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