PARNDORF AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003800480007-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 20, 2006
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: March 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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Parndorf Airfield
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1. Between 8 a.r. and 1:30 p.m. on 26 January 1954, 12 PiG-15s, 1 semi-high wing
monoplane, and 2 Yak-11s were observed at Parndorf (P 48/X 77) airfield.
The eastern edge of the field could not be observed. No air activity was
conducted. There was a 10/10 overcast at an altitude of about 1,000 meters,
a northeasterly wind of about 8,km/h, visibility of. about 20 km,, and a
temperature of 16 Centignrades.below zero. During the period of observation,
the roaring of engines was repeatedly heard from the 1"iG--15 dispersal area
east of the fuel dump. No activity was observed at the field. About noon,:
a total of about 165 men of whom 115 were counted, all of them wearing fur
clothes, left the temporary buildings at the south-western edge of the field.
2. The AA gun emplacements were guarded by sentries whose service color could
not be determined because of their fur clothes. Six canvas-covered 37-n 25X1
AA guns were observed in the emplacements. No structural changes were observed
on the wooden garages when compared with the last observation in December 1953.
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Sixteen motor vehicles were
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trucks, were parked in front of e garages. No
activity was observed near the battery-charging station. A thick cable rope
extended from the temporary building with telephone co--nection (7) to a small
cone-shaped antenna with a disc on top (27). The number of lines leading into
the temporary building had apparently increased. Four tank trucks were parked
near the fuel dump.
3. The masts of the long-wire antenna had been removed, w?:ile the truck with a
van-like signal superstructure and 2 rod antennas was Ptill there. The motor
vehicle number of the truck had been painted over. No changes were observed
in the status of the PYV-45 DF station, the Kniferest-type or the F4 shnet-
type radar sets. Two van-like trucks were parked in front of the two small
sheds near the radar sets; the sheds were apparently used as garages for
the vehicles. The pyramid-shaped antenna with a disc on top (26) was being
dismantled and the other pyramid-shaped antenna with disc (27) was being
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transferred slightly to the asst. At the foot of the antenna was a small
wooden shed, in. the rear wall of which a thick cable terminated which
ran from the telephone shed. Next to the pyramid-shaped antenna with a
disc was a van-like truck. The rear wall of the tank shed just west of
the garage sheds had been boarded up, thus making a counting of the tanks
Impossible. The shied bad a holding capacity of 6 tanks. Four searchlights
mounted on about 1.5- :ter-high masts were seen approximately along the
western border of the runway strip. The mobile control station and the van-
like truck next to it were parked at their previous locations. On the roof
of the van-like truck was a divice which bore resemblance to a small
pyramid-shaped antenna. A large container was being mounted on a high trestle
near the aircraft repair shop. A house in the southwestern corner of the
field was occupied civilians who spoke Russian..
Field Cosmrent. It is believed that Parndorf airfield is still occupied
a Soviet fighter regiment.
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