WELZOW AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008400140001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 20, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 30, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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northeast and of the field.
irork had also made pro recs. :i arracks were un(er construction at the
;thii?ts,, A stretch of about 800 meters had be;eri concrotel,. LevelLiq
:?.,_e1.d was proceeding at a rapid pace. Bork rwa;-, bein^ done in trio
1. hi 31 June 1951, it was observed that construction work at :Yelzow afr
2. On 113 June 1951, it was observed that construction was being done on
he rur :ry at ;;elzotr airfield. The runway was scheduled to be 3,9000
peters long and was estimated to require appro-x matoly 550,#000 tons of
Concrete. The layer of coi oLo was about 15 em thick, the mixing; ratio being
s 3 ~, The completion date was fixed for Auguo t 1951 A total of 1,100 workers
crere employed at the field. Trucks were observeda 50X1-HUM
3. Construction materials arriving at the field i : Hay 1951 included 130 rail-
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T'ze construction. site d ii not au r ar to be Cuardod. Soviet soldiers were
soon le in^ the area and clearir, the woods. The construction wcwk was done
by, the Dau-TJ ion firm of Dresden:. The project had been classified as a
pri or it;7 I project. Gravel used for concreting work in grades from 10 to 25 mm
nnOre procured in the iloyerswerda area.. During sonic periods three trains with.
,ravel were observed daily proceeding through Iloyersr;erda in the direction
o c k;1zow. "
road cars with c rushed stone.., ? 103 boxcars rr= tic cements ) car with 1uinber
field railroad locomotive :;nd 5 Stalin-type .racro ?s, car with bricks
cars with field railroad rails, 1 excavator, and 1 ;Taterpillar tractor
with a scraper in front.
Cr- 2S June 1951, work on the construction of P. runway at lzo airfield
tas 'rein accelerated? the runway. 50X1-HUM
ill be 39400 meters long. The concrete layer was 20 cm thick. Reinforcing
: tee:L was not used. x e runway will be 30 r tr:rs ,!, ide. The construction
work was performed in such a way that concretod stretches j meters wide Vlore
lto:^nated with urizurfaced stretches of the sar:.e wri.dtha On the day of obser-
vation a stretch 300 meters long and 40 r:~~. "c,ers -,ride was completed.
ten co,:inieted, the field will cover an area of about 3 000 x 1 200 meters
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Class. Chanted To: TS S elft
Auth.: HR 71.2
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Porgnent? The report confirms the previously known corn 50X1-HUM
struction work at relzow tirfield? The i.xfornatioii contained In
paragraph 2 is received for the first tirue? It is believed im-
p nobable that the construction will be cc=mpleted by August of this
year. The target data mentioned Drobabbv- refers onl to the com-
pletion of the runway,
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