CZECH ATOMIC CANNON REPORTED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500810062-0
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• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Sequence Number: 62
• Content Type: REPORT

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Approved For Release 2006/09/27: CIA-RDP80-00809AO00500810062-0
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Czechoslovakia
Czech Atomic Cannon Reported
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Reports from the Slovak garrison town of Kosice indicate that the Czechoslovak
Army has now, for a short time only, come into possession of-an atomic field
gun. The gun is reported to be of medium caliber and smaller than the American
atomic field pieces now actually in Germany.
2. Secret firing tests are reported to have taken place in the presence -of Soviet
experts. The teats were made in narrow passes of the.Carpathian Mountains, in
the Soviet sub-Carpathian area. An artillery regiment, specially trained to
handle this new weapon, is said to have been stationed in Kosice.
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