COTTBUS AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008500260005-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 30, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: August 8, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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1(, Between ]. and 5 p?ra, on 5 July 1951, two croups, totaling 29 twin engine aircraft
with double rudder:, assemblies vie re parked in front of the hangars at Cottbus
airfield. The engines and cockpits of the planes were covered w th tarpaulins, (1)
No fl..i. hts were made, There were intermittent showers and a 500-rooter cloud base..
Only a fe v soldi=3 were seen at the fields, No work was bcinC done on the newly
graded arca west of the runway, '0-ork still continued on the ditch south of the
graded area,, Abotit 50 laborers were iayin cement pipes with an outer diameter of
about 101 meters, The walls of the pipes were about 20 cm thick,. 0',ork was being
done from east to we3ta No observations were made indicatin a possiblo extension
of the rummy to the cast or west. (2) Grass drew on the recently graded area in
the eastern section of the field, A settlement northeas of the field evacuated
by German families and subsequently occupied by soviet dependents who built a high
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Betwee:r 2 and 6:30 p,n,, on 10 Julyo two roups,totalinf about l twin-`engine air--
O craft were parked in front of the han ars at the field. The planes were of the
same type previously observed there.,,. There was no fl in o The sky was overcast
and the clouds base about 1.,000 Motors., T'ho setf;l eM:ent northeast of the field was
surroar dcci by a xhi h board fence which obstructed the approach of the field from
that sic e0 About. 100 ,tea and women were l.a ng draanaj:;o pipes in the western
section of the field ., Several sheds and wooden hats were seen on the construction
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Betwecr. 8 a,r.t. and 5 p.rao on 10 Julys there was intensive fl- Z , - by -win '. i ne
aircraft. in for=t` ` ens e.":about three to E i t t pl series, The aircraft were aloft for
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about 20 to 30 r,;n itosG B!.rinc this tiro bcr. b detonations crere heard fro i Licberose:.
The sox e f`ly n; act .vity w th tvdn-ep--irie planes was obscrved bf t o';n 7E30 am. and
8 p.m. on 1.1 July.,' Tlsh i,her was fair,, Formations of tvdn-jet bombers flying at
an altitude of 3 9000 meters repeatedly approached the field from the west,:, C,scortt
jet f-35. hters with wept-hack winL,s flew around the bonb r formations,.
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14414i, ?., craft vrith double rudder as: emblies were parked
in two. om in front of the hangars at the field. There wa
no .y'ins A radio ansta:lation consistin ; of a mast, a
van Tike .truck, and a small earth bunker vas seen about is km
West of the field,, on the eastern bank of the lower pond
betmecn Koll. itz Tlahlitz road and the dam. It was about 125
meter .e southeast of traingulation point 61o 7,> the mast, about
8 meters hi,-h., was braced by four guy vrires each at two points.
a+Ra~+ cu mu ULLti a,i-tiiae ere was no 1.Lying,., NO jet aircraft were
soon. work on the southwestern end of the runway continued,,
Aecord nL; to a tailor who was employed in the tailor t s shop
at the field, little work was to be done because many officers
of the field were on furlough(, (3)
On the night of 12 July, betvreen 10 p.m. and 2 a.m.,; biplanes
with their running 1ichts on practiced flyinEw .isetween 6 and
9 a.rao 9 on 13 July, three twin-engine PE-2s made individual
flights of about 20 minutes, +ork on the western end of the
runway continued0
About 9 p,nny on 29 June, a train of 38 flatcars rith sideracks
passed. through Cottbus on route to 1"orst. Each flatcar was loaded
with a large box which was as long as the car, slightly narrowier
than the car, and as high as the 2,11 meter sideracks. Two but. ;es
of different shapes were seen at the front and rear sides of the
box? Sovict soldiers accompanied the train0 (4:)
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about 140 PE-2s 6 No jet aircra.f t are assigned to the boribor reginent,,
(2)The landing field in the extension of the concrete rumiay was graded
and provided pith a hard surface. ` is eras probably clone so that
the planes LliCht taxi beyond the end of the run ,ay.. No observations
were made indicating that the concrete rumray is to be extended.
(3)It is possible that the pilots wore temporarily transferred to the
UOS,Soll, for retraining on type-27 planes,,
(Lt)it appears that the boxes are crates for fighters, The destination
of the shier lent :~s not k lo' n0
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