MERSEBURG AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007400520009-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 1999
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 29, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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1 _ 'roman employee of the Bauun.ion- ^outh rirn -"ho worked on estimates
for the Improvement of `'e.,rseburg (11 52/) 91) airfield said in early
February 1951 that a conference ."as held, about t-,*o "oeks a,?o,
bet*^een the 13auunian irm, the police, the traffic adninietra..
tion, and the aohkopau ('" 52/D 91) Bunn ?._orks. 7)i?ring this
conference it 'ias agreed that lack of mace precluded an ex-
tension of the field to the north. To accomplish their objec-
tive it i,ould be necessary to rebuild '.'...auch_staedterstarse to
the north,, ' o'7ever, this ??ould reruire in turn the renoval
soutfiards of the fluna '..orks sludge dung -hieh no-, exte' ds from
'73chkopau to the "erseburg-Lauohstaodt (?? 52/7) 81) railroad line.
Before the sludge projeet could be initiated, the railroad line
,;,ould have to be moved farther south. These successive -loves
would eliminate necessary space for the Tarchstaedterstrasse
detour. The boundaries of the airfield 'ere finally deternined. *
2. The agricultural fields located in a triangle port'- of the-air-
field, previously surveyed for the extension of the runway's mere
released and once again returned to cultivation.
3. The spur track rrobably circles the field. locomotive was
seen moving from the northeastern edge to the eastern edge of
the f fold. Tt stopped at a point in line -ith tie firing range
at the sout1,-"estern section of tho field.
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:mother s etch shoved the intended removal o Laud staedter-
cua.txvat1 Ares previously foritarded
as s-'n as ravorable i,-eatfer sets in.
sketch ??'ith the sche4 .pod boundaries o the
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0or~ment. or sketch of airfield, see :'annex. The ne"i boun-
a.r es of the field are precisely drain on the basis of angular
measure-Lents 'reparations for the im.nrovement of the "l?erseburg
airfield began in '%ertember 1950, "'onstruction had not yet begun
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- Airport (administration building)
Flak Kaserne
:.. ?ield path for sentries
-'lectric? line
atemunition dump
Firing range
Former airfield boundary
New airfield boundary
Fields released for cultivation
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