SCREENING EXERCISE AT THE PEENEMUENDE-KARLSHAGEN RESTRICTED AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010400280006-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2002
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: January 7, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC Screening, Exercise at theFeenelniu:rde-Karl ,.are. a-,estricted J'.rea _
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1, .t 6 p?ri, on 28 1,u, rust l951, source observed a screening, exercise in the
Karlshagen?-Peenemuende restricted area from Zinnowitz (5 .o01a.@ 30"Nti3o559E)
The beach in the area east and northeast of the 'estrictcd area near i.arls-
hagen (54oO6+ttt0'1N/13049' 30"E) was screened,
2. Gas containers similar to acetylene containers wore used to lay the smoke
yed in connection, with this operation, one
screen. I:o vessels were ?mrlo,
of the containers tivhich could be observed near the restricted area on the
road between Zinnowitz and Karl sha ;en pointed obliquely upwr:,re's like a gun
barrel. n1v o Russian soldiers, one of that armed -';ith a carbine, ware seen
near this container. The emission of the sr;oke or artificial fog; was not
observed sicx was it possible to determine the nu aber of ;as containers used
for the screening operation o
The artificial fog; emitted extended vertically into the air like' b_
curtain There were tv;o smoke walls, each about 300 meters .A.Ce and 15
20 meters deep with a smoke-free zone between the two wal.l:s Therc was
dead calm at that time,
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!4, she two smoke walls could be observed from G pore. to 'I' p,rr:, i;o traces of
th .s artificial f of v,ere-observed from Zinnobritz in the M)rning of 29 Jiugurt. *
Commen"v, To da be, screening exercises of. the s kind have not been
o~snrtiTec iii tie Peenerauende-Karlshag ?n area. The formation of vertical smoke
wills is ren :r'.:able; horizontal surface screening is the usual r}e{prod of
protecting essential objects in war .ire, This screening exercise was probaF.)-
ly made in connection ith the Soviet airfield in Peenenruende where a +et
plane regiment was stationed in August 1951,, ;n screening of the Creifs-
wald 2,odderi and the Peene River was observed so that the airfield was screened
from vision only toward the northeast,,
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