RECHLIN/LAERZ AIRFIELD

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A032600480001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 8, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

F-ROCESSINka 9.,Ut- x
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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
S-E-C-R-E-T
COUNTRY East Germany REPORT
8 February 1957
NO. PAGES 1
REQUIREMENT
NO. RD
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE &
DATE ACQ.
Rechlin/Laerz Airfield
Laerz Airfield
field, on a possible G.C.A.
west runw.y and on possible
the main east-west runws.y>r
Comment: This report is the result of a special reconnaissance under-
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report concerning the Rechlin,
gives information n o servations of aircraft on the
site adjoining the southern side of the main east--
preparations for the extension of the eastern end of
taken to ascertain the possible presence of a G.C.A. installations
STATE I IARMY XINAVY X AIR
FBI
(Note: Washington distribution indicated by "X"; Field distribution by "#".)
AEC
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EAST GERMANY
AIR/MILITARY
RECHLIN/LAERZ Airfield Spotcheck as at 13 Jan 57.
between 1200 & 1430 hrs
1. AIRCRAFT DETAILS
Four Fresco A's or B's were parked at readiness on the taxiway
These aircraft were each fitted with underslung auxil.a25X1
wing tanks
No other aircraft could be observed anywhere on the main airfield.area.
It was impossible to ascertain whether there were any further aircraft parked
in the main built up area adjoining the SOUTHERN side of the airfield.
Throughout the entire period of observation, no flying activity took
place either from or in the vicinity of the airfield.
The nearby TOKEN radar located on the Sprotscheberg at MR 496 116
operated from midday onwards.
2. FLYING ACTIVITY
adjoining the SOUTHERN side of the main 25X1
EAST/WEST runway, there is a complex radio/radar vehicle site (see photographs
at Appendix "A"). The following equipments were provisionally identified:
chimney-shaped "solid" array mounted at the rear.
d) An elongated 2-axled caravan or vehicle having a conspicuous
c) A SMALLCROSS aerial array surmounting a 2-axled radio van.
a) A CROSSFORK surmounting a 2-axled radio van.
b) A similar CROSSFORK type array surmounting a single mast.
e) A radio vehicle adjoining the front of the "chimney" caravan./vehicle,
having a smaller squat vehicle alongside. A total of 4 masts were
mounted on its roof, the scanner being stationary and apparently
f) A flat lorry/trailer had an elongated open mesh type scanner
one of the masts appeared to mount a disk type cone array,
set up between the 3 vehicles mentioned in (d) and (e). At least
approx. 12 times as long as the actual vehicle. The height of the
of possible curvature could not be ascertained.
mesh aerial was approx. a quarter of its overall length. Details
g) 2 flat miscellaneous to tr e par on the site.
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None of the equipments were in operation during the period of
observation.
4. POSSIBLE PREPARATIONS FOR EXTEN ION OF EASTERN END OF MAIN
EAST WEST RUNWAY
Since late November 1956, work has obviously been in progress in
clearing and levelling part of the woodlands adjoining the EASTERN end of the
main EAST/WEST runway. The strip contained between the EASTERN end of the
runway and the nearby roadway has been levelled and
smoothed over, resembling an extension of the runway, and a similar portion 25X1
now extends for an unknown distance beyond the roadway into the cleared
portion of the funnels in part of the adjoining woodland. The roadway has
now been closed, and on the day of observation was roughly wired off in a
temporary fashion.
There wore no signs of any building equipment nor of PSP stocks
in the vicinity to indicate any work being in progress on possibly extending
the runway, but the preparation of the actual extension strip tends to give
the impression that some sort of development is anticipated.
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