WIENER NEUSTADT AIRFIELD AND MILITARY POST
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CIA-RDP80-00810A002700820010-1
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RIPPUB
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S
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1
Document Creation Date:
December 14, 2016
Document Release Date:
May 21, 2002
Sequence Number:
10
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Publication Date:
October 13, 1953
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REPORT
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TOPlc Wiener :Ieustadt Airfield and Military Post
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DATE OF CONTENT
DATE OSTAI N E
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1. Between 9 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on 1> September 1953, 43 MiG-15s, 3 single-
engine aircraft with radial engines and I single-engine high-wing mono-
plane were observed at Wiener Neustadt (0 48/X 34) airfield, No Pe-2s
were seen at the field. There was a 2/10 to 7/10 overcast, visibility of
about 40 kilometers,, a cloud base at an altitude of about 2000 meters
and almost no wind. No air activity was conducted. Next to the inner
runway localizing beacon (item 24) was a low brick. ba?.ildi ng, a wooden
pole with a bundle of wires at the top, and a motor vehicle tram r
with a glass turret shaped like a truncated cone. Five small gray crates
were observed near the parked MiG-15s. Yw!est of the road sign board at
Badener Strasse was a radio truck with an antenna mast', about 6 meters
high, with a small cone-shaped antenna and with a disk at the upper end,
2. At Theresienfeld airfield, 1 I1-28 with. a diesssamb]e d. left wing was
parked at the eastern side of the hangar, 1 cunves-covered M1G-15, 6 large
gray boxes, each 1.5 x 2x2 rioters, and 40 small gray boxes were observed in
front of the gates of this hangar. Objects is and 10 were occupied by per-
sonnel wearing black-bordered blue epaulets.
3. The Nachrichten Kaserne apparently was still d. i;htly occupied by soldiers
wearing black-bordered blue epaulets. No change was observed on the
i irtillerie Kaserne. An antenna mast, about 8 meters high, which had a small
cone-shaped antenna, replaced the previous rod antenna (item 22) at the
northern side of t1-e barracks yard. The pyramid observed at the antennna
consisted of.rods, about 1 cm in diameter which formed the lateral edges of
a hexagon. The pyramid was about 50 cm high. Its baso was about 20 cm
in diameter. The di& at the upper end of the antenna east had the same dia-
meter as the base of the pyramid. The sides of the base of the pyramid were
interconnected by thin wires.
Coiynoon Wiener Neustedt airfield is occupied by a Soviet fighter
division headquarters and two fighter red
keyed to a sketch forwarded previously.
CLASSIFICATION S) C-M
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