WELZOW AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007100360002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 13, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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I. A ?elzow ('152/A t,,,ii.) resident said on 16 January 1951 that inproverlent i
were being made on the jelzovi airfield, that the spur track to the field
eras laic: and that large strips of goods were cleared. There was alle redly
intensive activity by several hundred laborers.
2., wanstruction was in progress at the field between 5 and 17 January. The
Cottbus (ii 52/A 57) branch o..."fice of the ' auunion-South Firm had a dis-
cussion with the railroad district because of the allocation of special
trains for the transportation of ni ht shift laborers. 1Frora this it was
learned that the firm mould employ gore than 1900 laborers, including 50
specialists who mould work in three shifts. The sae firm had previously
improved tho Cottbus airfield. A concrete runway was to be constructed in
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