BRANDENBURG-ARADO AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008300380010-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 19, 2012
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: July 19, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/19: CIA-RDP82-00457R008300380010-2
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CLASSIFICATION
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REPORT
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Brandenburg?Arado Airfield
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_DATE PREPARED_ 19 July 1951
ENCLOSURES (No. & TYPE)
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1, On 20 June 1951, 30 ground attack aircraft were parked in two
rows in front of the hangars on the eastern edge of Brandenburg-
Arad? airfield, an air force 50X1-HUM
unit of 700 men was ouartersd in the Pioniei Kaserne, There
was intensive flying with 12 ground attack planes between
3 and 7-p.m. Diving and firing at sleeve targets was practiced
in flight formation. Uotor vehicles observed entering and 50X1-HUM
leavinl the field
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4,0 Or 27 June, the Pionier Easerne was occupied by the same
1yrber of Soviet Air Force troops. At about.6 p.m., a convoy
of motor vehicles including trucks\
I the latter with a mounted searchlight andbuses.
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and the following motor vehicles were seen passing
through-te gate of the Pionier Kaserne:
3, At 8 p.m. on 21 June, eight single-engine ground attack
aircraft with red tips on their rudder assemblies and
white-bordered Soviet stars took off from the field at .
intervals of 30 seconds. The planes headed east. They had
not landed at the field by 8:45 p.m. *
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Comuml, The airfield is occupied by a ground attack 50X1-HUM
egiment, equipped with 42 IL-10s.
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