GROSSENHAIN AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011200060002-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 28, 2006
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 19, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. After 3:L5 a.m. on 17 January 1952, there was flying by a jet fighter' and
a i;iplane at ":rossenhain airfield. Firing by aircraft weapons was heard.
flo flying was observed in the afternoon.
About 9 a.m. on 18 January, a jet fighter circled the field twice before
landin?a ?* Two additional jet fighters were parked in the center of the
field. At 12:30 p.m., biplane IIwhich was equipped with a radio set
landed at the field. .fires extended from the wings to the rudder assembly.
Fl,ying closed after 2 p.m., but two jet fighters flert at night. * ?.otor
vehicles which were observed enterin and leaving the field
a fences vas to be built around the field in order to
preven-~ observation. The fence was to be 2.5 r.eters high with a 50--cm aor-
tior~ o.' barbed ,,Are at its top. -:a?
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` I I gent, These statements agree v ith: information received from sro.ssen-
hal o durin; the preceding ticks. _ grossen?7a i n is 25X1
occupied by the headquarters of a :~ z er division aria two fighter regiments
S'r_3iCarc being activated. Previous observations indicate that the t~ o re i'ion s
are egiiip-)r with a very small xrr~ )er of :'i 15s, The exact nunbor? of jet _pianos
has no,,, been c?etermined sir-ice the interior of the hangars could not be observed.
a8 Gor3:'ient. The a1le;cd construction of a fence agrees with observations
::zad at eight other airfield of the `I;renty--Fourth 'ir AM.
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