SOVIET AIR FORCE IN WERDER

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• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2007
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 23, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
East Germany
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18. SECTIONS 793
AND 794. OF THE U. S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVEL-
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of a sending key. These messages were apparently recorded on a message
pad. All the radio operators wore headphones. Each radio set had a 25X1
r~~ cable connection to a cabinet w the wall. The cables which converged
in the cabinet continued outside of the room and terminated individually
at a wire antenna in the garden of the villa. A single wire antenna was
strung between 2 masts, about 5 meters high and 10 meters apart. It could 25X1
not be determined that exactly 16 cables terminated there. About 5
additional radio installations were seen in the garden of the villa. Each
installation consisted of 2 masts, about 11 meters high and 13 to 15 meters
apart. The antenna was. strung between the two masts and looked like a
dual cage aerial. About 6 wires were strung between the rings, each about
50 cm in diameter. It could not be determined whether the 5 radio installations,
all of which were of the same structure and size, were also connected by
cables to the radio room.
switchboard, as assumed previously, but a central radio station of'
the Soviet Air Force. Air force radio operators were seen at work
in a large cellar of the building, where 16 tables were arranged in
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 messages by means
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1. Between 2 August and 14 September 1954, it carat determined that the
so-called Millionenbau on Isolde Strasse in Werder did not house a, 25X1
2. The central switchboard and teletype for the headquarters in Werder were
housed in a building at the southern edge of the field. The air force officers
working there wore 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 purchase at the central commissary
(Basa) in Werder:
Commissaries
Voichenkov (1)
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Gitun (3)
Maslov ('4)
Bilyatski (5)
Toporkov (8
Mashkin (9)
Eromenko (1.1)
Tupitsin (12)
Gorshenkov (13)
Komar (14)
Zenozatski (17)
Krushilnitski (18)
Magazine 5 (Wusterhausen)
Magazine 6 (Bad Saarow)
Magazine 12 (Rangsdorf)
A new sedan) was assigned to the Basa in Werder.
The following air force officers were seen visiting the Basa in Werder:
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2 officers using
1 senior lieutenant using
1 general using
1 colonel "
chief of main Basa using
Major Zavada (fnu)
1 major using
1 senior lieutenant using
1 major using
sedan
jeep
sedan
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j. Commissary Toporkov (S) was the only commissary which Continua1l
On 27 September, the headquarters in Werder gave a banquet in the;-
Russian restaurant on the restriced Eisenbahn Strasse in honor,of Ro*
Thaelmann and the author Anna Seghers. About 40 Soviet officers attended,
the dinner. In order to procure the desired crystal glasses, of which
only 5 were available in the restaurant, Lieutenant Colonel Bondarenko
(fnu), chief of the main bureau, drove to the Basa in Werder 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 Basa in Rummelsburg in order to buy 15 kg of caviar.
Since the caviar was scarce also at this central commissary, only 5 kg
could be obtained.
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Comment. Same source previously reported that a central 'atw1
had been established in the so-called Miliionenbau on Ioolde Strasse in
Werder. The present report indicates that the
central radio *station of the q wenty-Fourth Air Army is actually
located there., For sketch of antenna system seen in the garden of the villa,
see Annex.
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Antenna System Observed in the Garden of theVilla
on Isolde Strasse in ':herder
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