FINOW AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001000750005-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2009
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: March 20, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. The following observations were made at Finow airfield between 10 and 18 February
1953a
~?C1 F~bx?~zsa ? 1 air activity was observed at the field., There was heavy snowfal25X1
almost throughout the day.
Air :.vtivity was performed every day between about 9 a.m. and 3A30
p.m. At 2x40 porn. on 13 Februazye 12 MiG.-l5 and type-29 planes were parked in one
line in the southern section of the short ru nw4r. Several, starting carriages, tank
trucks and a mobile flight control station were observed e the, raft co
Take-offs were made bar a swept-back jet fighter and four 25X1
ItG-15 a ad type-29 Planes. The following aircraft were observed at the field at
3.320 p 0m0 a 31 11UG-15 and type-29 planes on the northern edge the alert flight,Qf
4 swept-back jet fighters.. including 2 3 adQ. iona25X1
swept-back jet fighters, including; 2 a ut 60
meters south of the alert flights ann about en e p Ones on the
northern edge of the field. At the same ti.me., four 34iG--15e, including two 25X1
landed at the field.
.. Between 8 ,,,45 and 9 am.., individual planes took off. 25X1
11 Fe X. Xa There was no air activity.'
xebaatr,& After 9 Mama, swept-back jot fighters took off. One 25X1
dingle-englxfe low wing monoplane landed at e field. Between 10:45 aomo and 2 p,m0v
there was air activity bccause of snowfall After 2 p;m0, individual token-offs
were made by 5 and type-29 planese Between noon and 12:30 p.m,
L___120 MIG-15s were parked on the eastern edge of the runway, 21 MG-15 an
type-29 planes of the northern ed a 1. 1NIG-15s of the alert fli -ht.
and about 12 MG-15 anl type-29 planes on the
northern a ge of the e d. tank tru..14fl 2 starting carriages and 2 trucks were 25X1
parked near the 20 MG-15s on the eastern edge of the runw'ay0
LtkT My,q Between 8 and 106-30 a.m. and between 1 and 4:15 p.me h there was air-
activity by MG-150.1
2. Up to 18 February, the A. gun emplacement, in the southeastern corner of the field was
occ;p:Eted by six 37-=i . guns. On 13 February, only one gun was covered with
taxpauJ..~Axa, chile the barrels of the other guns pointed upward0 Two guns were
fitted with gun shields. About 10 soldiers who stood around an uncovered gun were
probably given instruction. One or two sentries wearing., red-bordered black epaulets
and armed with submachine guns were observed in the gun emplacementss.2
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in piles about 1 meter high in the ammunition die p near the field.
High ranking air force officers and generals were repeatedly observed
entering and leaving the restricted area northeae,,t of the field. From this
observation, a headquarters was located there. The 25X1
eitrauces to the restricted area were guarded by soldiers who wore black-
bordered blue epauylets.l
1Po p Fixow airfield is occupied by the headquarters of a fighter 25X1
on and two fighter regirneents. It has been previously believed that 48
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During the first half of February,, four piles of bombs were observed in
the northeastern corner of the field.. The bob dump was guarded by a
sentry wearing red-bordered black epaulets and armed with a submachine g a3
4m On 13 February, a barbed wire fence, about I met or high, was observed in
the gap of the fence along the eastern edge of the field. Two diagonal
wires and 4 or 5 horizontal wires were strung between poles, whia b were
2 to 3 meters apart.
5. During the morning of 5 February, a radio installation 25X1
consisting of two masts each 8 to 10 meters high and braced with four
guy wires, just southeast of the garage. IM antei.ina of three wires was'
strung 'between the two masts and attached to cross bars, about I meter long
and about 1 meter from the mast. Two van-like trucks :mare 25X1
parked near the masts. On 11 and 12 Februarys they radio installation was
no longer observed. On 11 February, from the Finow-5choepf-. 25X1
forth road two mast antennas, about 6 meters lone;, projecting above a
bunker which could not be identified.
6. Between 1/+ and 20 February,-.air activity was performed at the field during 25X1
the mornings and afternoons of weekdays. Most of the aircraft took off in
elements of two. wring the air activity, four alert planes were always
parked at the eastern end of the runway.
7. Crated a miunition with an estimated dimension of 80 x 25 x 25 cm was stored
to 50 MiGGl5s were stationed at the field. It remains to be seen whether
the increased number of 58 planes mentioned. in the present re )art is only
tanporary. Aircraft are reported for the first 25X1
time, were previously obserwa-d in Neuri pin0 25X1
C ; ~e The AA, battery of six 37-Mm AA guns has been stationed at 25X1
the fieidfar some r onths. It was not observed. thc.t protection at the field
was increased.
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