WIENER NEUSTADT AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001300450008-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 5, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: April 24, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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`iener Neustadt Airfield
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U. and 17 March 1953_______
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-ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
1. From 9:30 a.m. to noon on 14 March 1953, there was no air activity
at Wiener Noustadt (0 48/X 34) airfi.ild. Weather was 10/10 overcast
with heavy snow drifts and li Cited visibility. No aircraft or AA Luna
were observed at the field, The Artillerie Kaserne in W'i-3n3r-:1oustadt
was guarded by a soldier who wore black-bordered blue epaulets. 4L
var.;-like truck was seen in a wooden shed in the yard of the installa-
tion about 30 mete-s east of Feidgasse. A wooden antenna, mast which
was believed to be extendable, was seen near the shed. Two lead-:ins
1 . he antenna mast to the van-like truck in the shed. Sedan
25X1 B was seen in the barracks yard. The telephone lines extending
the A gun emplacements at the southern edge of the installation
were newly laid by soldiers wearing red-bordered black epaulets on
poles of the public telephone system. Red, blue, green and black heavy
tel ei hone cables were being used. The ' arracks camp west of Winer
Nmr;:stadt was guarded by soldiers wearing red-bordered black epaulets.
1.11ai_ntenanco w^rk on motor vehicles was being done at the camp. Trucks
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., ?asse G a ze s or er Strasse. Ten men wearing black-bordered
ble.ck epaulets were seen V-ere.
2. From 7:30 p.r.. to 9:40 p.n. on 17 March, there was air activity
by I}iG-15s. The weather was fair with moder:.zte southerly winds.
Landings were observed at 8:10 p,.rs., 1:17 p.m., 8:26 p.m., 8:36 p.m.,
8:44 p.m., 8:50 9:05 p. r:_. , 9:10 P.m. , 9:16 p. rr . , 9:25 P..-.#
9:>2 p.-_., 9:36 -.). n. , and 9:42 p.,'-. S urce observed that t! ?ree
green lights were switched n for a short time by a NdG-15 , which
carte in for a landing. Another MIG 15 showed a red light below the
fuselage about in line with the cabin. The landing pl nes used
landing li:rhts. A searchlight which directed its beam horizontally
anc in a right angle to the runway was seen at the edge of the
woods near the pyrotechnic plant in line with the flight control
station. The handing aircraft touched ground in south-north direction
in the beam of the searchli 'ht. The two rows of spotli;:?ts north of
the Wiener Neustadt - Bad Fischau highway and in the northeastern
portion of the field were directinj , their red be~.ms diagonally upward
throughout the tire of obse ,vatiorl. All the landing MiG=-15s came in
for a landing between the four r d spotlights at the southern ed,,Ye
of the installation.
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25X1 A Comzaento Wiener Neustadt airf-e d was previously believed
to be occupied by two fighter regiments. According to previous
information, '13 unidentified aircraft were seen at the installation
besides the usual MiG-15s on 17 March 1953. It is unknown, whether
these planes were Pe-2s and whether they represented elements of
the bomber regiment transferred from Asp-rn to Wiener Neustadt
airfield.
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