CIA Reading Room cia-rdp82-00457r013600220005-6: DREWITZ AIRFIELD

📝 Description

An roved For Release 200265 49 ' CI'A'F~'[3P8 5f 0022 :6 L.itcrn aer a m _J-DLACE OE:'sTAINIEI)_..____ DATE OF CONTENT- J1 1952' DATE OBTAI N E:D J REFERENCES_ ._.. PACES ? ...ENCLOSURES REMARKS -, SOURCE 25X1 25X1 I Juno 19 2, source observed that a spur 'Uraci> ..as under co:.struction to +ar'U i) o iitz airf ie "d < '4211s spur track branched off f ro2'`.'c the Cottbus- 1, >,bon railroad. lira; near Jaensclwalde Cn 16 June, norl_ darted can the re.:xval of the humus soil on the runway at-? Dr5e..rtz airfield. On 30 Jmc, a strip of 900 rioters was coripleted,, A total of 5OD persons were enipluycd on tlz:.s day. he laying of the spur track was to be comrlotec- by 15 July. Zile 19"" construction plan ir.cluded the construction of a runway, Vl e southex'.. taithrawr witty txaad~ stands, and a ca:ntorzriont? 3arracks installations end r as -,ar s ?arere schedules: to be built J.n. 19112,/1953 and,, scab oegaen_tly, an aircraft o larrr yeas to be constructed. in 1953, iCo1i.3?trucvion wort at the field use under the suir- vision of the i->oviet con4< tr.xction staff in "erder. The area of he f: ld -uc:s inspected by r:,crnbors of the .;3D, Vu' and cx-in na1 ??nvos t . ?ation polico., 1vv;o original dc s xont s wore found at the field, t` ne of then contains -1n.formr.:-. t1.on that a ,-rj re fence tr.tli concrete sixoports is tc, be built around the field. iiccordin~7 to the second dociu ;nt,, the star .in-; dote, 1 Auc st 1.952,, for concreting work on tle rmm-a 7 and taxiway, carmot be riot beca-,me of a delay in the (aclivey-r of construction mach nes,, 11)document also ii dicateo that port at the field in done by- the Dresden Dauanion nand s+,por:vi..sed by the .:order construction staf '. 25X1'`- 0oim-ienta The report contains cr-cc.l ie retails on the i ntc .r.ec . construction work Enid the tarot dates fry' the construct* on pro,jocto ..eark is only in. the Initial stage. The report indicates that the cc._i,~J,.n t:t.on of t< field crn definitely not be ox pected in i952.. 4J1a41llts i 25X1 Approved For Release 2002/08/09 : CIA-RDP82-00457RO13600220005-6 25X1 ,. DA' E PREPARED-