RADIO AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS ON WITTSTOCK AIRFIELD

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
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• Publication Date: August 8, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, `!'1t 'e
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited b; ]a
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COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Radio and Telecommunications
on Wittstock Airfield
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on i s oc airfield gives i.n ormation un owing headings :
(1) Airfield Telephone Exchange, (2) SAF Headquarters, and Airfield
Underground Operations Room, (3) Air Traffic Control Building, (4) External
Overland Open Telephone Lines, (5) External Underground Cable, and
(6) Radio/Radar Installations. Seven sketches, referred to as appendixes
in the report, are also included: Sketch A shows the cable and telephone
layout on the airfield; Sketch B shows the layout of the telephone exchange;
Sketch C shows the details of the telephone systems leading out of the
airfield; Sketch D shows the details of an outer marker beacon site;
Sketch E shows the layout of equipment on the outer marker beacon site;
Sketch F shows the routes followed by the underground cables and overhead
telephones which serve the airfield, and Sketch G shows the details of the
radio mast adjoining the TOKEN site, and also the bed of the underground
cable which links the airfield with the Wittstock post office,
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EAST GERMANY
AIR/MILITARY
Radio and Telecommunications on WITTSTOCK Air
as at mid-Nov 56
APPENDICES
Attached at Appendix "A" is a sketch plan showing the cable and
telephone layout on WITTSTOCK Airfield.
Attached at Appendix "B" is a sketch plan showing the layout of the
telephone exchange.
Attached at Appendix "C" are sketches showing details of telephone
systems leading out of WITTSTOCK Airfield.
Attached at Appendix "D" is a sketch plan showing details of the
outer marker beacon site located approx. 3- km. EAST of the airfield.
Attached at Appendix "E" is a sketch plan showing the layout of
equipment on the outer marker beacon site.
Attached at Appendix "F" is an overlay taken from local 1s25000
maps showing the exact routes followed by the underground cEb]es and overhead
telephones supplying WITTSTOCK Airfield.
Attached at Appendix "G" are details of the radio mast adjoining
the TOKEN site, together with a plan showing the exact bed of the underground
cable linking the airfield with WITTSTOCK postoffice.
1. AIRFIELD TELEPHONE EXCHANGE
The airfield telephone exchange is located in an 25X1
isolated single storied reinforced concrete building measuring approx. 9 metres
x 8 metres. This building is entirely abov3 ground, and has a single entrance
with a heavy metal door. Each of the 7 small windows let in the walls has a
heavy metal shutter on the outside. The interior of the building is divided
up into 4 small rooms of varying sizes, all walls, both outer and innor,-
being of heavy reinforced concrete (see sketch plan at Appendix "B").
There are 3 cable/telephone systems leading into/out of the
exchanges
a) A single underground cable consisting of 60 pairs of 0.8 mm.
connecting this building on the airfield to the main postoffice
in WITTSTOCK. Of this total number of lines, either 52 or 54
pairs are in current use (see sketches at Appendices "A" and "F").
b) A series of 3 external together with several internal overland
telephone lines. Of the external systems, 10 pairs lead to
MEIMURGSOw), 9 pairs proceed to BRANDENBUR , and 9 pairs
To to RECHLINsee sketches at "A" and
c) A ring system of internal cables extends around the entire
airfield built up area. This underground cable system is
r-1%1 * 1-, ,n broken up into portions by a total of 6 distributor points.
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capacities, one having 60 pairs of lines, whilst the other hae
SECRET 80 pairs (see plan at Appendix "A").
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The exchange is manned in shifts by a staff of 3 SAF ORs under
the direct supervision of an SAF NCO, and it is frequently visited by an
SAF officer. No German personnel are allowed into, or permitted to work
in the vicinity of this exchange, except when major alterations or difficult
repairs are necessary, in which case the workmen are kept under the, personal
supervision of the SAF officer.
2. SAF HEADQUARTERS AND AIRFIELD UNDERGROUND OPERATIONS ROOM
building
situated
officers
The SAF Headquarters is located in an extensive elongated T-shaped
in addition to a smaller oblong 2 storied building
opposite (See sketch at Appendix "A"). Senior SAP
are normally to be seen entering the larger T-shaped building.
Beneath the NORTHERN arm of the main building
there is an extensive underground bunker of unkne-;m dimensions. This bunker
is normally occupied, and into it are fed numerous cables and telephone lines
almost all of which appear to be superficial and of an improvised nature. All
repairs and :irin into this building are undertaken by Russian signals personnel
and no Germans ?:rhatsoevor are allowed to work on the cabling.
There is a total of 16 teleprinters in the main HQ building, all of
which have direct links to other Soviet units via the airfield telephone
exchange and the main postoffico in WITTSTOCK.
3. AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL BUILDING
The air traffic control tower is loc-tedl labove the
largest of the 4 hangars. This control tower has a direct underground cable
link to the airfield ring system, and in addition there arc 2 pairs of -,giros
on a primitive overland system extending across the domestic site as far as
the radar site (see sketch at Appendix "A").
4. EXTIRNAL OVERLAND OPEN TELEPHONE LINES
The 3 previousl mentioned overland telephone systems (see sketches
at Appendices "A" and "F") have all been laid :;;r Russian signals personnel.
Those 3 teloophono systems converge SOUTH of the airfield
and then load into the telephone exchange.
All of those external long distance systems consist of normal rough
unprepared wooden poles, each of which is surmounted by 2 wooden crossbars.
Four pairs of wires are carried on each crossbar, one insulator of each pair
being above and the other being secured below the bar to prevent inter.foronc.e
by induction, The extra pairs are carried by S-shaped metal hooks on the
actual poles themselves (for exact layout of those telephone wires, see
sketches at Appendix "C"), The wires are of steel and copper.
A fourth smaller overland system comprising 2 pairs, extends between
the Russian Kommandantur through SCHWEINRICH as far as
5. EXTERNAL UNDERGROUND CABLE
The underground cable consisting of 60 pairs extends between the
airfield telephone exchange as far as the main road At
this point, the cable bends SOUTHwards, pr ocoodinz he entire V'ESTTMN
side of the main road as far as WITTSTOCK~ and then terminates
in the main postoffico see s c chus at Appendix "A"
and overlay at Appendix
The cable bed is 60 cm. below the surface, the cable itself lying
on bare earth, and is protected above by a line of normal domestic bricks,
The route follows a rough footpath situated on the WESTERN side of the main
road (sec sketches (b) and (c) of Appendix "G"). The majority of the land
bord..ring this cable bed is rough woodland, and near the immediate approaches
to \'ITTSTOCK, the adjoining houses are all civilian occupied, mostly consisting
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of small-holdings or small detached houses in their own grounds.
At the main postoffice in WITTSTOCK, the terminal of the cable is
linked to other existing underground cables, the majority of which have boon
entirely requisitioned to carry Russian traffic. In this way, direct
connection is made from the airfield to the following Soviet exchanges:
FINOW
GROSS DOELLN
NEURUPPIN
NEUBRANDENBURG
PERLEBURG
SCHWERIN
WUNSDORF
WERNEUCHEN
DALLGOW
FURSTE]WALDE
DEMMIN
ANKLAM
PEENEMUENDE
PUTNITZ
PARCHIM
GARZ
MIROW, and
WESENBERG.
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aITQCK postoffice is itself the main trunk link in the long
distance cable numbor This cable consists of 119 pairs, and extends
between PERLEBURG and RHEINSBERG via WITTSTOCK. This main cable is buried
1-- metres below surface,e, ana pairs of lines are taken from it and fed out
into the WITTSTOCK postoffico for local consumption.
All cables used to carry Soviet traffic are regularly chocked by
Soviet signals engineers every 2 months.
6. RADIO/RADAR INSTALLATIONS
a) TOKEN site
In the immediate vicinity of the TOKEN site, there is a metal mast
approx. 20 metres in height. Near the top of this mast there are either 4
or 5 pairs of vertical dipoles (see sketch (a) of Appendix "G"). This
radar/radio site adjoins one of the airfield underground cable distributor
points, and is linked into it. In addition, 2 pairs of overland open
telephone wires proceed into the air traffic control building.
b) Outer Marker Beacon Site
approx. 3 km. from the EASTERN end of the runway,
Four metal masts, each approx. 11 metres in height have been set
up in the form of a square spaced approx. 8 metres apart. The 2 most
WESTERLY masts have a series of parallel wires stretched between them,
approx. at 1 metre from the top. The 2 most EASTERLY masts are each
surmounted by 2 pairs of dipoles, each approx. 1 metre in length (see sketch
at Appendix "D"). A single wire joins these 2 masts and again links the 2
WESTERLY masts approx. 1 metro below the junction of the series of parallel
wires.
aerial
There is no Sense/in the centre of this radio installation, nor is
there any form of hutment or shelter similar to those seen on A0COCK sites.
(see sketch at Appendix "E").
A single thick wire extends between the 2 most NORTHERLY masts and
a nearby wooden hut which is manned by SAF personnel. From this hut, a
eingle pair of telephone lines feeds into a nearby overland telephone system
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which extends between the airfield and RECHLIN.
Approx. 30 metres to the SOUTH of this radio site, there wore
usually 2 x 3-axled radio vans. One vehicle had a normal box bodied
chassis with no obvious aerial array, whilst the other had a similar
box body but over the entire roof there was a single curved aDrir.Ll across
which there was a series of horizontal dipoles. The exact number of
dipoles was not known.
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