LEIPZIG-MOCKAU AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006200380005-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 26, 2006
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: October 18, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRYSoviet Zone of Cermaa REPORT NO
'TOPIC Leipzig; Mockau Airfield
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1. The Leipsig4 ockau airfield (N 52/E 21) was released to commercial. aviation during
the Leipzig Fair. The air traffic control station was housed in the former
airdrome restaurant. A German construction-engineer named. Hoffmann . (fnu), who
wasi lected by the Soviets to supervise several airfields in the vicinity, lived
in this building. The adjacent administration building was stripped of all
furniture and partly burned out. Only the plexiglass control tower was intact.
A house with five garages? offices. and a spur track were seen on the western edge
of the field. The field has a concrete runway which ends about 300 meters away
from the autobahn. The run ay was repaired prior to the 1949 Spring Fair and is
usable in its entire length of 1,100 meters. It was rtu ored that the runway would.
be-extended about 200 meters to the south.'
2. For the fair, the SCC turned the field over to the German management of the fair.
A civilian and police air traffic control service zero established. During the
fair two Dutch DC-3s, nine Czech DC-3s and two Czech IL-12s landed at the field
3. The civilian air traffic control personnel was billeted in the aixarome restaurant.
They had a direct telephone line "Basal' to the Ministry of Traffic in Perlin.
The civilian control personnel included 15 to 20 civilians, probably SCC members,
who worked for a civilian named ch_ idt (fnu).
4. The police traffic control personnel were assigned to the Ministry of Interior
and had, a direct telephone line connection with this ministry. The police detail
was headed by Volkspolizeikommmandeur Schulze (fnii), who had served with the
German Air Force. He said that his office was in Berlin-Schoenefeld (N 53/Z 93).
The duties of the police detail did not go beyond the usual air traffic control
routine.
The weather service at the field was in the hands of meteorologists Dr. Hoehne. (fnu),
and Dr. Wichers (fnu), from the "Voelkerschlaohfidenkmal Leipzig" observatory.
They said that,about three weeks before the weather service was assigned to the
Ministry of the Interior and was no loner controlled by the Ministry of Traffic,
6. A Soviet civilian, allegedly an employee of the Pmroflot, and 'a Soviet passport
officer were also seen at the field. Railroad tangy. cars which arrive(; from the
Deutsche Kraft- and Mineralstoffzentrale -- D CI:?Z - at the field were emptied into
tank cars. The gasoline was said to have an octane rating of 100L
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When the fair was ever sae field was returned to the control of the 5CC and a
police detail of 2) moved into the airdrome restaurant.
8 ? Twenty-four Americans on a.Dutch plane were refused permission to leave the
field because they did riot have the required visas, They were forced to leave
for Frankfurth!~ain on.a Dutch plane on the same evenings
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Comment. The alleged p3;anned extension of the run r< wa s previously
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Common n e data on the use of the field during the Leipzig Fair
and the personnel observed there during this time were reported for the first
tine o The field was used by commercial planes in 1949 during the fair.
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