SCHOENFELD AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005400660005-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 2001
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: July 14, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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1Q ( Schoenefeld (N 53/Z 93) airfield is a Soviet civil airfield
used by high-ran'-ing Soviets and members of the German Soviet
Lone Government for flights to the east?rsoviet Colonel
i{ebrov (fnu), who, in February 1950 hac been in foscow for
some time, is the commandant of the field. An office of the
Polish Air Lines is located in a building at the southern
edge of the field,, The offices and stQ'age facilities of
the special construction bureau set ui.by the government :..
Potsdam are in a building at the northern edge of the field.
This special construction bureau has the mission of con-
structing and repairing buildings. Two large buildings were
repaired and equipped for occupation by about 200 Soviet
families. The chief of the construction bureau, 17inisterial-
rat Rama, (fnu) was arrested on 3 February 1950, allegedly
for black-market dealings in non-ferrous metals.
2? The field is guarded by a Soviet detail _of 40 me."a who are
quartered in Schoenefeld at the southern ed,-- of the
field and also by 20 peoples policed Civilians are em-
ployed as gatekeepers. .A tank company anc.r an air force
company have been stationed at the southern edge of thp
field since Easter 1950.
these units hrd corip from Potsdam and Its
ity. .fter 1 I
reinforced..
arrived at the field a
the course of the spring of 1950.
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3. About 50 Soviet families were transferred from the field to
the U.S.S.R. in the fall of 1949. 25X1 A
additional Soviet families are expecting ? ie;r transfer in
CLASSIFICATION
CONFIDENTIAL
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This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL, in accordance with the
letter Of t6 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
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The fuel tank p.n.s allatiorf at the southern edge of t~ field
is oor posed of 10 underground tanks ' ,ith a total storage
capacity of 500,000 liters and three oil tanks with a total
capacity of 150,000 liters. The filled tanks constituted a
permanent reserve, while aircraft refueling was done from
railroad tank cars. The radio station in the southwestern
section of the field is permanently occupied by two German
operators and a Soviet supervisors
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