LODZ AIRFIELDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002501030004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 5, 2013
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 23, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
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COUNTRY Poland REPORT
SUBJECT Lodz Airfields DATE
DISTR.
23 October 1953
NO. OF PAGES
2
DATE OF INFO.
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1.
Attached is a rough sketch of the military and civilian airfields at Lodz.
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Mita:: Airfield (No. 1 on Sketch)
0 The airfield covers anlarea of about 250,000 square meters. The airfield has
four runways of concrete slabs; the runways are about 15 meters wide and are
flush with the ground. Each arm is about 300 meters long. There is one hangar
which is 40 meters long, 15 meters wide, and 18 meters high. Near the hangar
there are six or seven wooden huts painted green. Thirteen single-engined
aircraft, with Polish markings, were observed. The airfield is surrounded by
a concrete wall and, on the side of the civilian airfield, by low wire netting.
Civilian Airfield (No. 2 on Sketch)
3. The, civilian airfield has three concrete runways, each 12 meters wide, raised
above ground level. Each is of a?different length, the shortest is about 150
meters and the longest, about 200 meters. A wireless telegraph aerial was seen
on top of the LOT (Polish Commercial Airlines) building.
40 no radar aerials or unidentifiable installations on either airfield.
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Militaarfield (NO. 1. on Sketch)
Civ.Alian Airfield (No. 2. nn Sketch)
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