After the second world war and with the subsequent division of Germany, the British Army set up a static listening post at Langeleben to intercept and analyse the radio traffic of the Eastern Block and monitor the movements of the Warsaw Pact military forces. Langeleben was only a few kilometres far away from the "Iron Curtain Border" and was consequently a perfect location for intelligence service.
A temporary location was set up using specialised "QLR" vehicles and tents and nine members of the "101st Wireless Troop" Royal Signals were the permanent staff in 1951.The air station was considered just as a temporary facility. After a short time it became clear that the division of East and West Germany would possibly last a long time, and so, as staffing levels grew, wooden huts were erected.
With the building of the Berlin Wall in August 1961, the clear need for a bigger and better "Permanent" facility at the location became apparent and so in 1963/64 the camp was totally rebuilt.
The military camp was officially known as "Anderson Barracks" and with the fall of the wall in 1989, and the reunification, the need for a listening post in the middle of the newly merged Germany became superfluous. The camp closed in 1992 and the occupants were absorbed into various other units at diverse locations. The unused buildings were soon vandalised.
Since the demolition in 2008 the buildings have all gone leaving only the roads and concrete foundations remaining to show what once stood there. The fence, gates and all other scrap metal have been removed and Nature is slowly taking over the site.
A memorial stone was inaugurated near the former British military facility on 13 June 2009. The "Langeleben Reunion Association", an association of former soldiers of the Royal Signals and the Intelligence Corps who were stationed in Langeleben, financed the memorial.