WIENER NEUSTADT AIRFIELD AND MILITARY POST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006000110009-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Sequence Number: 9
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SECRET
Wiener Peustadt Airfield and Military Post
EVALUATION PLACE OBTAINED
DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OBTAINED DATE PREPARED 21 January 1955
REFERENCES
PAGES 2 ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
REMARKS
1. Between 0600 and 1500 on 21 December 1954, 36 MiG-15s, 3 Yak-lls and 1 biplan25X1
were counted at Wiener Neustadt airfield. The depression near the pyrotechnic.
plant could not be reconnoitered. No air activity was observed. There was a
10;10 overcast at an altitude of about 1,000 meters, westerly wind of 10 km/h
good visibility across the field and occasional light rain. MiG-15
parked at the aircraft repair shop northeast of the flight control station,
6 men in overalls were dismantling its tail by means of a block and tackle.
Two "var_-like" crates and a truck were seen next to the aircraft.
2. Driving school truck and jeep 25X1
all of them with drivers wearing black-bordered blue epaulets were seen at
the flight control station. Eleven trudks, 1 bus trailer and 4 Stalin tractors
were parked under the lean-to roofs. One truck and 3 van-like trucks were
parked in the open. Trucks longing 25X1
to the driving school, sedan and ambulance all of L~X1
them with drivers wearing black-bordered blue epaulets were seen in traffic.
The southern AA n emplacement was unoccupied. Van-like truck 25X1
and trucks all of them with drivers 25X1
wearing black-bordered blue epaulets were seen proceeding to and from the
western flight control station. The storage shed in the area of the pyrotechnics
plant was guarded by a sentry wearing black-bordered blue epaulets. Two
wings, apparently from MiG-15s and auxiliary fuel tanks which had already
been seen on 30 November, were still seen at the previous location.
?. MiG-15 23 gray crates and 1 truck with hoisting gear were seen in 25X1
front of e hangar at Theresienfeld. Three trucks 25X1
with driver wearing black-bordered blue epaulets, 2 van-like trucks and tank
truck with driver wearing black-bordered blue epaulets were seen 25X1
in the parking lot.
4. There was light traffic by personnel wearing black-bordered blue epaulets between
the Artillerie Kaserne in Wiener Neustadt and the flight control station at
the field. Three trucks, 2 van-like trucks and 3 sedans were parked in the yard 25X1
of the barracks installation. Five motor vehicles were parked under lean-to
roofs. Van-like truck jeep and truck 25X1
all of them with drivers wearing black-bordered blue epaulets were seen in 25X1
traffic. Two trucks and 1 van-like truck were parked in the yard of Nachrichten
Kaserne. No vehicular or personnel traffic was seen at the installation. There
were only very light activities going o thin the installation. 25X1
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Comment. Wiener Neustadt airfield is still occupied by two fighter 25X1
regiments of the Fifty-Ninth Air Army. MiG-l5 F] was, for the first 25X1
time, seen in Austria.
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