WIENER NEUSTADT AIRFIELD AND MILITARY POST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005500920010-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2010
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: November 17, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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Wiener Neustadt Airfield and Military Post
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1. Between 0800 and 1400 on 16 October 1954, 38 MiG-15s, 1 Yak-11
and 1 biplane were parked near the pyrotechnics plant at ;'Wiener
Neustadt airfield. The depression could not be reconnoitered. There
was no flying. The sky was cloudless but there was light haze and a
southeasterly wind of 5 km/h. 1
18 trucks including
2. The flight control station was guarded by a sentry wearing black-
bordered blue epaulets. There was traffic by personnel wearing
block-bordered blue epaulets between the flight control station and
the barracks. MiG-15s Nos 614 and 919 and 1 gray crate were seen
north of the flight control station between the flight control
station and the church. Work was being done on the Mils. Occasionally
their engines were raced up. Motor vehicles parked in the area of the
eastern garage installation included 1 mobile flight control station,
radio truck)
van-like trucks, 2 Moskovich-type van-like trucks and
fire truck Two trucks and 1 tank truck were pak-ked
in front of the motor vehicle sheds. The aastern AA gun emplacement
and bunker area had been leveled and could no longer be distinguished. 3
Personnel wearing red-bordered black epaulets were seen at the soi,.ithern
AA gun emplacement and bunker area. There was no change in the status
of the southern and northern rows of searchlights. Thirty-five fuel
drums in groups of five were seen at the place where an underground
fuel dump is believed to be located. A tank truck was filled by
means of a hose. Two van-like trucks were seen near a wooden hut about
100 meters northeast of the presumed tank dump. Two wings leaned against
the wall of this hut facing the landing field. They were about 120 cm
wide, had rounded ends and were painted green. Sixteen soldiers wearing
black-bordered blue epaulets practiced firing with pistols at the
target range. A pile of gravel and broken stones which previously, had
been seen just west of the target range north of the 'Wiener Neustadt-
Bad Fischau road had been removed. About 100 meters north of this
point, two underground bunkers, one of them with one chimLney, the other
with two chimneys, were seen. The antenna mast north of the southern
AA bunker area had been removed. The van-like trailers with glass
devices which were usually parked under the lean-to-roof north of the
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antenna mast with cone-shaped bracings located in the extension.
of the northern row of searchlights, were seen at the northern
end of the northern row of searchlights. Inside the glass device
which resembled a trunkated pyramid, eight bar-snared lamps, each
about 30 cm long were seen. On each side of the pyramid, two lamps
were fitted about 2 meters apart. The lamps were fitted parallel to
the sides of the pyramid. For about half an hour, the lamps gave
the following red flash signal A permanent
line was being constructed from the eastern garage installation
along Badener Strasse outside the airfield boundary as far as the
signboard indicating the town limit and from there in the direction
of antenna installation 28.
A sentry wearing black-bordered blue epaulets was seen at the
entrance to the aircraft repair shop at Theresienfeld. One biplane
and 5 gray crates were seen in front of the hangar. The crates were
being hauled to the northeastern side of the hangar by a track fitted
with a special hoisting gear. One i'MIiJ-15 was seen in the hanc'ar
through an 0en door. Trucks and
jeep and ambulance all with drivers
wearing black-bordered blue epaulets were seen at the field. Six
trucks and 3 radio trucks were pab:ed in the yard of the _A_rtillerie
Kaserne. Twelve 37-mm AA guns, 4 four-barreled AA guns, 27 tricks
and 1 van-like truck were seen in the area of the cantonment west
of Wiener Neustadt. One mobile flight control station was parked in
the motor vehicle shed in the yard of Nachrichten Kaserne. Motor
vehicles seen in Wiener Neustadt included truck and
van-like trucks The drivers of these
vehicles were black- or ere ue e au ets? the trucks came from
direction of Bad Fischau. Jeep with driver wearing
black-bordered blue epaulets, truck with driver wearing
black-bordered red epaulets and truck with driver no
20 personnel. wearing black-bordered blue epaulets came from the
direction of Felixdorf.
4. Between 1100 and 1600 on 18 October, 4 MiG-15s
l crane, 2 van-like crates, 4 gray crates and 2 van-
like trucks were seen north of the flight control station at the
point where tail sections of two aircraft had been seen on 16 Octoher.2
Work was being done on the Nits, the tail of one of which had been
disassembled.. Two MiG-15s took off for individual flights of about 25
minutes duration. Van-like truck with driver wearing 50X1-HUM
black-bordered blue epaulets proceeded from the flight control station
to the eastern garage installation. MiG-15 and one Mi -15
were parked in front of the hangar at the
aircraft repair shop Theresienfeld. 2
Two MiG-15s were pakred in the hangar. Eight gray crates were seen
east of it. No personnel were seen near the aircraft.
Between 0830 and 1500 on 19 October, 1 MI G-15, 2 tail sections of
MiG-15s, 1 crane, 2 van-like crates, 4 gray crates, and 2 van-like
trucks were seen north of the flight control station. Work was being
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done on the MiG-15, the engine of which was repeatedly raced up.
Between 0830 and 1200, there was northwesterly wind which decreased
from 20 km/h to about 5 km/h. After 1200, there was easterly wind
of 5 km/h. At 1120, 2 MiG-15s toolt: