SOVIET AIR FORCE MOVEMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006500350006-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2008
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 7, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL NVIKLK3lNCE /K'~ICY
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY Bast Germany
SUaIKT Soviet Air Force Movements
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1.
Dat= Destinations
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1 Vogelsang
2 Orandenburg
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4 ooaohee, S oonverted bo~ocare, 6 bo~ocare,
1 heating oar, 32 two-axle flatcars
4 ooaohes, 2 oon~nrted boxoars, 4 bo~aoare,
g flatoarr, 1 heatiag oar
3 Vogelsang 34 loaded oars, 15 ea~ty oar?
4 Erfurt 3 oonterted boxcars, S bo~ooars, 1S loaded
flatcars and S empty ilatoare
2. On 3 April, 12 II.-r281a were observed at Oranienburg airfield.l
3. At 1000 hours on 31 Msroh, a Soviet air foroe unit boarded a train for Vogelsang
at the Wild~ark railroad station. The train inoluded about ten boxoars oooupisd
by air foroe troops and was loaded with bille~ing oonatruotion equipmeat~ eons
oaterpillar tractors and about twenty truoks.
4. Between 1350 ar~d 11+45 hours on 1 lpril~ one MIG-15 landed at Brandenburg-Brieet
airfield. At 1200 hours on 3 Aprils eight oonvertsd boxoare with troops four other
boxcars, three gondola Dare with billeting equipment and five task truoks on flat-
cars were shunted from the Brandenburg-dltetadt railroad station to Brandenburg-
Briest airfield. At 1400 hours, another eight tank truoks~ eiz truoke with billeting
equiprlent~ one bus and 15 trucks and ~edane were unloaded; these whioles moved in
a column toward Briest at 1600 hours.
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2. ~~s Construction units of the 24th Air Army had previously asaembled25X1
at Wildpark~probably for a rest, and were reequipped during the winter months.
3. C : The origin of this equipment is unknown. Brandenburg-Briest 25X1
a r e d is possibly being occupied by another unit which may ~+Ave Dome from an
airfield where construction work is underway as, for instances ilt Loennswit$.
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