BRIESEN AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008100830007-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 29, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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i3t t'm l . ay and I June 195 1., source observed that Vie preirioulsy reported
soviet trans?:)ort brigade at 13riesen airfield numbered 80 men? :-They were quartered
in four newly fenced in to porar~;' wooden buildin;:c near the bz.xildinc of the
?.zs tr?.icti.Jn many event? The number of laborers was increased to l 9800 men who
. rked in ;three shifts. It was rumored that more laborers ,sere to be ernployed0
-ha V laborers said that
upon completion of the construction, they were to be
an f rred to Lucka-a-altenc, airfield for construction of a runway,,
During the period of observation, concreti was started on the western end of
the runway? A strip of abo;;'t 60 x 100 *. ters was co:ipicted by I `June., The runway
was given a 20-ma concrete cover over a layer of gravel about 30 to 40 cm thick0
fork was being don in tr:1 p 3 meters wide,, As soon as a strip was Coy gralote it
s s covered with runway vats. tin area about b3:3 uetex r aq re,t at the western
end of the runway, was cleared of tre:.s and ea cavated o A turning; apron probably
was to be constr-acted ttierc,, 'a'-~orers said teat the ru :Tay was to be cemploted
by Pugust or ~- ptc:abox 1251 and that ups to 20 carloads of gravel were to be
used daily for the run-ay,,
she .tarehoucce for co,ment was to be fc.iler?Gcl by 53 motorse Construction was being
clone on five of the 13 scheduled barracks buildin' s in forest stir- yeas (Jaen)
E; J and 63, One blu3ldl.n" was roofed and the rafters of another build ng wore
C,'11:1':~ C?T~L m The buildings, each 11; x 6 me erci, had ce; c7rsr, hoir walls, about
5'7 cm thick, were lined with gloss wool an insulated with si~F'.;tc of asbestos
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.An additional tank., 5 rioter; lon and 2 m tors in .3.inu tr;r, was being metalled
in the adcr ; rciznd fuel du p where fuel for the tractors and `'iosel e.:; roes Was
stored a
ploy ~. s of the Lueben rand-le istry Office set boundary stones around the field
area. t'reviously, the field was gaxnrded by 10 German -~.ards who wore red arm
b:::nds, 31ot seen 28 Lay and 3. June, civilians and Uovi e' L officers arrived in
eight official e Wi-s of the Soviet -one administration arm ins:_ cted construction
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During th days of observation, biplanes and trial-jet aircraft
repeatedly approached at a high altitude. from the south' probably
from Firasterv aloe, and circled over the fielde the gain jet aircraft
had straight v in s and the leadinE; and trailing; -section of their
.fusela ;es were of about equal length,,
_Corr:sont I3riesen airfield is under construction. :". hard surface
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