AIRFIELDS AND AMMUNITION DEPOS IN THE FINSTERWALDE AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000200570010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: January 16, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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EN L INTELLIGENCE GROUP
i ELIAGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY Germny/Iaussian zone
SUBJECT Airfields and > at1ti
2 5 ) 1 drv Area
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Of th'3 approximately 5.,OOO i7.tassi rks irk F'i.nsteri alde, which now
bo gt 18 DO ISOXrn u i bitent-a, 1,000 are infantry troops and
came 7,000 are P .r force per sorrel
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ve in barracks at the fo;nner GAF airbase sl,l.gnk,iy north-
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c) According to a `nernber of the c ltd. e a id n3 3trst.1or and also
?c rman workers, the air bass barrack; will soon be completely re-
paired. when these accommodations are ready S j;000 additional troops
r') Tight security controls exe eliaod by the Russians at &ohacksdorf$
an mall a in Fl nate . alder. prevented source from ?approaching the
tk rft3ld. Local residents and air field arnployees, however, state
that r.anrw-ys are In perfect condltlon,, .150-60 Pata aircraft are based
there, an( there is considerable training activity,
o : ncr field, fc z erly used for training German glider pilots,
J.s o oour i :c! bat not very active,, It is located on the road from
Dobrtlugk (A05) to Finnsterwaldeo The field was under guard when
9bna rved by source on B October. There wee}e five training planes,
zt c . Fi ~ k as adoub o-deckar t4', znd two singly-motor pursuit aircraft
:- :t the fields. which contained tie, wee barracks buildings and
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Comment: A sketch of the Hcnnersdorf area is attazhed.
HIennersdorf and other surrounding communities vere draf feed for work
in this dump. The work consists of unloading a miunition from cars
on the railroad siding and piling it in large storage roonss
c) These workers agree, in var1o s statements .u ads to source, that
the deliveries consist of 500 and 1,000 pound aircraft bombs with
Russian markings. The bombs have not been given protective paint
coatings, and welding seams are clearly visible.
bomb damage suffered by the barracks has been ropa Lied
b) For three weeks preceding 8 November, German workers
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f) Source reports hearing violent detonations during his stay in
F'rbsterwalde a These usually occurs ed between 1500 and 1815 'sours.
Local inhabitants claim that explosives are being tested at the
KBnigsbruck training grounds and that the sound can be heard within
an eighty kilometer radius.
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2 a Hennersdorf (A05):
a) A former Organization Todt camp now s-ernes as a Soviet
ammunition dump. This installation is south of the railroad line
between Dobrilugk and Finsterwalele and west of the road from Honners-
dorf to Lugau (A05)* It is surrounded by barbed w re and guarded
by both soldiers and ?policexner1 accompanied b ,,v dogs. Most of the
3s Kolkwitz-S3d (A47):
a) A small ammunition dump is located about 200 meters south of the-
railway station in a small wooded area, A road passes through the
woods dividing it into two sections. V+haen observe:3 by source, the
northern section was empty; the southern section contained a number
of aircraft bombs and a stack of cartridge cases. This area was
fenced in and under guard.
b) Local German civilizr_xus told source that the ami unction in the
northern section was loaded on railroad cars four to six weeks
earlier and shipped westward. In source&a opinion, the present
supply at the dump is too small to be of any Importance.
Comment: A sketch of the Kolkwitz S d area is attached.
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