SOVIET AIR FORCE IN WERDER

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2007
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 23, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFOR ATloN REPORT*
CD NO.
East Germany
Soviet Air Force in Werder
THIS DOCUMENT ANTAIMP INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
Or THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN TN9 SEAMING OF TITLE Is. SECTIONS 79A
AND 7113, OP THE U. S. 0003. AS A03MOED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVEL
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working there yore the signal insignia of army troops, 1
3: Between 28 August and 2 October, the following trucks were used by,
Soviet Air Force commissaries for pucf7hase at the central coma .ssary
(Bass) in 1' erder:
in a large cellar of the building, where 16 tables were arranged in. 25X1
2 rows of 8. At each table was a radio operator sitting in front of
a gray..brown radio set, about 50 cm long, 40 cm high and about 25 cm
wide. Almost all of the radio operators transmitted messa -e;z by meanzx
of a sending key,: These messages were apparently recorded on a message 25X1
pad., All the radio operators wore headphones. Each radio set had a
cable connection to a cabinet on the wall. The cables which converged
in the cabinet continued outside of the r?ogm and terminated individually
at a wire antenna in the garden of the villa. A single wire antenna rae 25X1
strung between 2 masts, about 5 meters high and 10 meters apart, It could
not be determined that exactly 16 cables terminated there. About 5
additional radio installations were seen in the 4arden of the villa:: Each
installation consisted of 2 masts, about 11 meters high and 13 to 15 meter-
apart. The antenna was strung between the two masts and looked like a
dual cage aerial-, About 6 wires were strung between the rings, ei.ch about
50 cm in diameter. It could not be determined whether the 5 radio installatiors,
all of which were of the same structure and size, were also connected by
cables to the radio room.
2:. The central switchboard and teletype for the headquarters in Herder were
housed in a building at the southern edge of the field. The air force officers
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1, Between 2 -August and 14 Spptemb^r 1954, it was determined that the
so-called Millionenbau on Isolde Strasse in herder-did not houcje a
switchboard, as assumed previously, but a central radio station of
the Soviet Air Force, Air force radio operators were seen at.work
Commissaries
STATE
ARiAY
Voichenkov (1)
Vol,evach (2)
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Gitun (3)
Masiov (4)
Bilyatski. (5)
Toporkov (8)
Mashkin (9)
Eromenko (11)
Tupitsin (12)
Gorshenko-v (13)
Komar ( 14)
Zenozatski 07)
Krushilnitski (18)
Magazine 5 (7.1usterhausen)
Magazine 6 (Bad Saarow)
Magazine 12 (Rangsdorf)
A raew sedan wa:i c~ s:. ned to the Base in 7Vn rdar,
The fodl.l-wingair force cff icer t e.;+a seen visi ing the Bass. in ;?.'e: G.e:rg
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2 officers using
1 senior lieutenant up
1 general using
I colonel "
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1 tt ry
chief of main Basa using
Major Zavada (fnu)
I major using
I senior lieutenant using
1 major using
purchased signal insignia. Magazine a o,yated in Buk.tia?
On 27 September, the headquarters in order Eave a banquet In the
Russian restaurant on the restriced Eiseabahrti trasee in honor of Rosa.
Thaelmann and tie author Anna 5e~hers,; About:. 40 Soviet officer,, attended
the dinner. In order to procure the desired crystal. glasses, of whic .
only 5 were available in the restaurant, lieutenant Colones; Son.d irenko
(fnu), chief of the main bureau, drove to the Basa in *.".erder where he
could get 15 glasses, and subsequently to the HO in Potsdam. where he
purchased the rest. Major Spilliotin (fnu) sent a German worker with a
certificate to the Bass, in Rummelsbur in order to buy 15 kg of caviar,,
Since the caviar was scarce also at this centres:t commissary? only 5 kg
could be obtained.
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50 Commissary Toporkov (8) was the only commi.sse.ry which continually
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ti~erderm The present report indicator ~ zt hu 25X1
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central radio station of the IIq Twenty=Fourth Air Army is actually
?-4cated there.. For sketch of antenna ;3ystem seen in. the garden of the villa,;
see Annex,
~.Comment~ Same source previous y reported 'f-hat a centres: switchboard
had been established in the ed Wi3.lionenbau on Isoide .^, rasp In
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Antenna S stem rued
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