POSSIBLE SOVIET MILITARY STRATEGY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600050342-7
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 342
• Publication Date: March 17, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Rungary
GENTRAL 1NTECLIGENCE AGENCY
IIdEORMATION REI'QRT
CLASSIFICATION? CONFIDENTIAL
SUBJECT Possible Soviet Military Strategy
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3. During World star iI ~rhen Soviet,forces defended the Tranacarpathi~'n Oblast, they
learned that German armies had difficulty in penetrating the larger eaterahed areas
of the Podkarpataka Rus sector: Soviet artillery was heavily concentrated in the
Podkarpatska Rue passes. Tne majority of the gun emplacements and heavy gone xere
trained toTanrds the Hest, prom leteona gained in xarfare during Korld liar II,
Soviet strategists decided in 1951 that very few large guns were needed to defend
this ;area from Bcstera invasion. They recalled that during Borid Bar II, ffere~aa
forces en?aged in the Podkarpatska Sus region had to bypus these passes (thsz is,
penetrate the TJkraine proper by going, to tlu right and the Left of that region).
~? ~ '-951, Soviet engineers (according to Hungarian escapees) or>ilered the removal of
soe~e artillery, but by and late instructed the Soviet ailitary eo~tadera to turn
the gun ee~pLcements srouad and ea+umt the gone facing t>be southeast and northwest.
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According to ,the Hungarian soldiers who escaped from the area, the remounting of
penetration by Western ground forces.
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ac r f possible significance xas xhat general Soviet s'trate mi it be is the
-event another war developed in Europe. Several Hunga-riaas by
virtue of hasociatioa and conversation xith?Soviet infantry o cers a e isted
~ e3 th..,r, oo~sibility of wm~ld Wnr TiT; On the hams of such coa-
versaynumber of the Hungarian soldiers were of the same opinion. Some of
these opinions are:.
The Soviet armed fences have very little regard for the military capabilities,
of?such Satellites ns Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Rumania.
The Soviets will not try. to defend their Satellitss in central Europe,
according to these people. The Soviets state that they don't xsat to
make the same mistake Hitler did by extending his supply lines for extensive
distances.
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D. Eorapeyoalyeif euchset~a?eteats xerefdefinitely profitab d fight in central
le. The escapees.:
add flat the. Soviets' real line of defense against Western forces 1a.Europe
xould include a liae.set up from:Riga to Odessa. The USSR official personnel
referred to it as.the Riga-Odessa line..
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