ORANIONBURG AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006500720002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2002
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 17, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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Between 12:30 and 10:30 p0ra. or. 20 October 1950 seven jet fighters with
swept-back v:in s were parked in front of the hangars at the Oranionburg
(; 53f 67) airfield. Four planes of the same type were on the southern
edge of the field. * The four jet fighters i:,ade practice flights between
30 m d 5:10 P.m., when the weather was good and the sky was partly
cloudy. Tie planes too, off in elements of two at an interval of one and
a half aircraft lengths. They climbed at an angle of 30 to t.0 degrees,
and vanished after 15 seconds. Ten 'minutes later the aircraft approac:ted
the field at a very low level and a. ain zoomed in the same way over the
m:mir'_c:l.e of the field. The -)lanes landed after 20 minutes and the other
two ;dares took off. i, single -engine hifliwing monoplane coming from the
cast landed at . the fi-olci at f4:35 .m. There was no activity at the field
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Another radio station was on the northwe tern edge outside we field. It
consisted of four masts about 8 meters high and arranged in a square of
about 67 meters. A z,ray green tent was in the middlL; of the square, and a
rod about 2 meters long was on the roof o The masts which did not seem to
2. Four searchlights, about 75 meters apart and pointing to the north,
were arranged north of the road in the extension of the runway and about 4co
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motors west of the main rate ;e on ` haelmannstrasse. ** Two other
lighta were arranged in the sane way south of t !h road. The searchlights,
about 6.: cm in diameter and with red panes, were fitted on poles 0meters
high? The southern edge of the field was also marked by landin lihts, the
exact arrangement of which could not be seen as the section was blocked
during flying activity., A boundary light which was on the ruins in the
southwestern section of the field was switched on at night. Additional boun-
dary lights in the northeastern section of the field were not clearly visible.
Tmjo wooden houses occupied by sentries were at the intersection of Thaelmmm.n-
strasse and tme row of searchlights.
3. A radio truce parked under a wooden ro~'f, and a mast about 6 meters high
were just beside the railroad line, not far from the first searchli!ht.
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yield b,,,, ;dot aircraft. One fighter regiment is believed to be
stati sze(i in Granienbur;;. F- I
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;cap the d7 stance between the road and the railroad line
is about 550 rioters. 6ince the first searchlight is just beside the
radio station, at the railroad line.. the z. ini_mm distance would be
about 130 meters. 7Lh.is a'_rces with the distance estixiated in arossen-
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P..; Duor_.ersta his is probably the same flirPht security installation
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as was previously seen at the :iro.;senhain airfield.
There are seven searchlights about 125 rsetr rs apart and in the extension
of the runway. A radio station with a mast about 8 meters hi,-;h is near
the last .searchlight. There is probably another radio station in the
extension of the runway and about 3 , from the first stations ` :.irxilar
installations probably exist at the airfields of inour, Alt-.boennewitz,
and Lt-:erz
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