SOVIET AIR FORCE UNIT NEAR WITTSTOCK

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007300280007-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 5, 2007
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: July 1, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY East Germany
Soviet Air Force Unit
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to The Soviet air force unit in the former Roseneck estate about two kilometers.
southwest of Schweinrich on the south side of the Ttittstock'Lutterow roads' is
subordinate to. the corimland, of'Pittstock airfield, It provides the guards for
the observation towers on the bomb release grounds in the Gadow=Hemmelstall25X1
area,
20 The unit has a strength of about ten officers and 25 enlisted men. The commanding
officer. is Major Boshkoo The married officers live with their families in
Roseneck. ,
3, The unit uses the following buildings on the estates
a. The former mansion with about 20 rooms.
b. 'A former stables about 60 maters long with projecting roofs, equipped as an
accommodation building in Autumn 195)4o A part of this former stable houses
12 horses.
co 'Former servants' quarters which were occupied by four German families until
', the summer of 1954 when the military took them over for accommodation,
de A barns, with roof and open sides, used as a garage for three or four trucks,
Between the barn and the Wittstock-Lutterow road lies a unit :fuel dump. Motor
fuel containers are stored in an earth bunker. Above ground there are about 200
fuel drums. -1.
5, A two-strand telephon,4 line leads into the former mansion.from the direction of
Paulshof-Gadow. It is attached directly to the telegraph poles, each wire
with a porcelain insulator,
6, The building compound, with the exception of the former servants' quarters, is
fenced off with a simple lathe fence, No sentries were seen,
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7. Only one German family is still living in the building complex of the former
Roseneck estate. They have a small holding directly west of the former ser-
vants' quarters.
8. Opposite the former Roseneck estate on the north side of the Wittstock-Lutterow
road lies an emergency airfield. There is no concrete runway, and only a grass
surface on leveled ground. The size is about 3,000 square meters, after its
extension by 1000 square meters in 1951. The ground is not fenced in.
9. Up to now, except in wintry weather, two to four biplanes, each with single
radial engine, have stood on the airfield.
10. No signal instalhtion has been seen on the airfield or w ithin the compound.
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