DESSAU AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007800840001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 19, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 17, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

Declassified in Part- Sanitized Copy Approved forRelease2013/09/19 : CIA-RDP82-00457R007800840001-0
CLASSIFICATION
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flying with jet fighters was conductzd
at the Dessau airfield during the night of 13 April 19510 The runway
'ras lighted by three spotlights?
2. xt 10:30 a. mk, on 18 April 1951? 22 jet fighters, three single-engine low-
wing monoplanes equipped with radial engines, two biplanes, and a singla-
ungine high-wing monoplane were *served at the airfield. Four of the jet
fighters, parked at the southern edge of the fields. were covered with
canvas. The let firhters had vhite-bnrdered Soviet stars 50X1-HUM
Flying was not observed. Since the DUA I -I1U IVI
aircraft were parked very closely it is possible ti-at more than the reported
namber of planes were at the field.
3. rrom 1:45 to 2:15 p. m. on 21 April, 20 jet fighters, four of them ready 50X1-HUM
:or take-off, three sing!:-engine planes, and fo4r biplanes were seen at
?he Dessau airfield* 50X1-HUM
Flying vas not Observed. No air-
craft dispersal areas were seen in the small wooded area west of the landing
:ield. The construction work at the Schrarzer Peg was suspended and the cable
previously seen there vas removed? *
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belidied to be stationed at the field. 50X1-HUM
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/09/19: CIA-RDP82-00457R007800840001-0