BRANDENBERG-ARADO AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005700320008-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 20, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 10, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC? Brardenburr-Arado Airfield
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.I. The Brandenburg-Arado (i 53/Z 23) airfield wag observed between 3 at p.m.
on 3 July 195 A single-engine, lorwving monoplane, with radial Af ne
ias seen. No other planes were parked on the landing field or between the
closed hangars. The re viir g up of an aircraft engine was heard at 5 p.m.
but the ;lane could not be seen. Truck stood at the entrance
gate to the field 0
2, The wrecks of German and obso"lets: Soviet aircraft were scattered on the
southern and eastern ec'ges of the landing field. A three-story barracks
building on the eastern edge of the field ass being reconditioned. The
building site was surrounded by a board fence. The work was done by the
- auunion-East firm. *'
3. A radio station was set up in the main approach lane about 150 meters from
the eastern edge of the landing field. A radio truck stood innrevetment-
like shelter, or splinterproof position, Mich seemed to have been built
some= time before. A radio mast, braced with f r rL Aes and about 3 meters
hi h, was on top of the shelter,
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IGor.nent. The report confirms that the field is not occupied by an
air uni ` ;c, a The field is occasionally used for training
by pla ,,e s of the fighter re iment which is stationed in Brandenbur; - r? est
Aunt. This is the first report of any reconditioning. There are
rya xn i cWrion of intended expansion work on the landing field
or.erwnt. The radio station is reported for the first time. It is
no , nnt~% thefher the station is assigned to an air force or an army unit
This document Is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
totter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date:' 2008
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