WERNEUCHEN AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004600240012-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 23
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 16, 2007
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: June 15, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY sasti Varmarq REPORT
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1, On 1 and 2 June 1954, 11-28s without auxiliary fuel tanks practiced flying at 25X1
Werneuchen airfieldo
2, The following troop and supply shipments were observed arriving in Weraauchens 25X1
"JM.On previously reported shipment of 37 boxcars, 4 flatcars and
2 coaches arrived, orein from Brest Litovsk. On the evening, a train
of 41 boxcars, 4 ors and 2 coaches, arrived, also wing from
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?A Sr. At 0710, a shipment arrived -Brost I o
31 , At 0915, a shipmentrof 13 boxcars and 18 flatcars, arrived
coning from Brett Litovsk. he boxcars were fully occupied by W wearing black-bordered
blue epaulets, and Sovi t dependents . The flatcars were loaded with motor vehicles
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June. 2 At 0615 a shipment of 9 boxcars and 11 flatcars
arrived coning from Neubukow. The train carried about 200 sea
Tearing red-bordered black epaulets, 6 x 37-sn AA guns, 2 AA gone, smaller than 37-x,
and 12 trucks. The AA gun esiplacement in the sou of the field was
occupied by the unit. During the afternoon, truck died by IN wearing
red-bordered black epaulets moved into the emplacement. The previously reported
t from Finow which arrived in Werneuohen on 27 May
xi On 31 Mays, 6 boxcars with military goods from Buckau and a railroad tank
car from Gross-torbetha arrived in Wgrneachem. On 1 June, a boxcar with military goods
3. After 31 May, air activity by twin-jet aircraft was observed in the vicinity of
Werneuchen airfield. the flight speed of these aircraft was lower than that of the
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activity at the field. QOq 9 hts and far circles over the field
and Its surroundings were madeo
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5a Three radio trucks, each with an about 8-meter-high antenna mast, were observed
in the southwestern extension of the runway inside o? the field, A radio
installation with four masts and a radar set, probably a Sniferest-type set,
were located in the northeastern extension of the.runway,
6. Six canvas-covered AA guns, either 76.cn or 85-am caliber, were observed in
the AA gun emplacement in the northwestern corner of the field, Near the
emplacement were two radar sets of type AA 1 MQ 20 The superstructure of one
set was just being dismantled. Six light AA guns were observed in front of the
sheds ear the emplacement and a number of motor vehicles were parked in the
sheds,
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8, sparing the noon hours on 5 June,, about 40 twin-jet aircraft, probably I1-.28s 25X1
and U-I1-2Aa WA ..7,n .nw a 4 1L_ su _, n > '
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coaches and 90 flatcars from the direction of Brest Litovsk,
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76 n Or a.,mm guns and 1 light AA battery with
6 x 37-mm AA guns in addition
aroma guns of smaller caliber are stationed at Werneuchen airfield,
MK 2 were previously reported for the first time, 25X1
Lcaaent The AA shipment 25X1
Werneuchea and .moved toward Neubukow
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o co ned ammunitions The shipment from Lilackau probably
3a The arrival of the ammunition shi t was revi ort~_
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4,1 ICOmnnent, For three photographs see Annexes '1 through JJAI
These photographs indicate that the 11 s and A-11-28e do not differ from the twirl-
Jet aircraft formerly observed. On one photograph of a 0-11-28 the air exhaust 25X1
appears distorted ae camera was slightly moved while taking the 25X1
picture, The II-28sl had been stationed in East Ger~ma_ny prior to late June
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