COTTBUS AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008100810004-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 12, 2001
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 5, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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30 May 19Sls, about 25 conventional aircraft with two engines were parked
in three groups in front of the hangars at Cottbus airfield. * There was
no flying; between 2:30 and 7 p.m. when the cloud base was low. A new road-
north of the recently graded area was used as an approach road to the field,
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On 2 June, the following information was obtained from an electrician uho
was employed by the Cottbus National Electric Companry' on I 1-Liebltnecht--
Strasse. An unusually large quantity of ammunition was stored at Cottbus
airfield,. The Soviets placed an order with the electric company for the
installation of lightning conductors for the ammunition dumps,;-probably
because there have been many thunderstorms recently. The company was further
ordered to lay electric wires to the enlarged barracks installations at
Cottbus and i elzaa airfields, *3-
Between 2 and 6 Dom? on 6 June,, 27 twin-engine aircraft vi re counted in front
of the hangars at the field. ?here was flyi..ng liy only throe biplanes
a:Lthough the weather was good. Each plane bowed a
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eeve target, Two
machine guns located crest of the hangars fired at the sleeve targets at an
altitude of about 100 to 120 u:uoters,
1s. The graded area in the eastern extension of the runway was rolled and
enclosed by a board fence. Construction was still in progress in the
western extension of the runway. Ceinent pipes about 1 meter in diameter
and 2 meters long were being laid in a trench.
On 12 and 14 June,, 3L twin-engine Pe-2s were parked in front of the hangars
at the field. No jet air-raft were seen, Many laborers were excavating crest
of the runway. The following information was obtained from a foret:iant for
about 11t days) r:pork has been done on 600 meters of the southwestern extension
of the runway.. *-;;* In the course of this excavating the laborers struck a
server-line from Stroebitz (N 52/A 57). Together with grading work the sewage
was nor: being regulated. Cement pipes about I meter in diameter were bei c,
laid under the new expansion strip of the runway, toward Zahsomi (17 52/A 57)0
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+ork was stopped temporarily because water broke through at a completed
;section of the trench and pumps were not available. The KVtIU Bauhof1
~:ottbus,, had the contract for the work. A work force of 150 laborers,
including those engaged for t1raina e work, worked one 3-hour shift, The
traffic, between the airfield and the tam had to be rerouted via a new
road because of the construction work on the eastern extension of the
runway beyond the Cottbus-Burg road.
25X1 A _ Comi;ienta The airfield is occupied '
by a comber regiment equipped
ci thaaout 3 -PE--2s,
25X1 A CorrFrrent. Other sources confirm izmproveu lent work at =elzow airfield
yJ era a ear l Y irface rurnvay is bein, built,,
25X1 A ~~ ou entm Construction on the western ex? onsion of the runway has
not been started but "radin:- is being done there,
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