WERNEUCHEN AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002300390001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 1, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 17, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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who' resided in `?ers~euc that, on 18 .June, the
AA -emplacements at the field were vacant; and that the airfield seemed to be
deserted, The AA gun emplacements were again occupied on 11 and 12 July. 1r.
July, jet fighters were repeatedly observed over Werneuchenm
edge of the field on the afternoon of the samedaye captain
of the Art unit and believed that this -..,.kit had formerly been stationed in
Werneuchen. On 14 July, a soldier of the unit picked up 36 hundred weights of
potatoes at a depot at the railroad station and ordered 2 hundredweights of
cherries. 1
.2. On 7 July, between 6 a.m. and 8 a?m~,, a train, of 3
'::oxears, 8 converted boxcars, 15 flatcars and 3 S.$-type cars, loaded with 8
guns, probably of 76 mm caliber, and 12 to 15 trucks arrived in WWWerneuchen
and was unloads at the airfield"' The A1`' guns were emplaced along the western
3? The Il-28 unit which transferred from the field and took
along some fuel containers with them, which had prob.r not been dug out of
a fuel dump. 2
4,, Between 16 and 28 July, no aircraft were stationed at the field, The previously
observed AAA unit was still at the field.,
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5,,On 13 July, both the northern and southern fuel dumps
still existed at the field. The fuel dump in the open just west of the northern
dump was re:ioved, including barrels stored in an open shed;. There were no 11--28s
rkeci at the field. The aircraft, probably Pe 2s, which had formerly been
observed in the twe western hangars, were stripped and stored on the athletic
field, The lighting facilities along the runway and the flying lane vare removed.
Soth the Adcock DF station and a radio installation with one mast near Hirsehfelde
and an additional. radio installation were dismantled, 3 The out ance to the
field was guarded by sentries and patrols were observed at the field.
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1" Co; Ly~gntm, The AAA unit left WerneueherA airfield in early June 1953
for practices with live ari muniti ,n at the '.:us'trow firing range and, then,:
returned to its former erm.;t.lacenents on 7 July 1953.
Comment. During the first half of July,, `s.iG-15s probably of the
regiments in Fino'a lancer at ','erneuchen airfield. i f ter 16 July, M'.G-15s
were no longer obsorved there. The information that air safety facilities
were dismantled at the field agrees with orovious observations made in
connection with the transfers of air units,
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