(SANITIZED)NATIONAL SECURITY CORPS (SNB) UNIT PRAGUE: T/O & E(SANITIZED)

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 13, 2009
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: June 3, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
Czechoslovakia
National Security Corps (SNB) Unit,
Prague% T/O & E
This Document contains Information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean.
Ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code. as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of Its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person Is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form Is prohibited.
REPORT
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REQUIREMENT
REFERENCES
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. On.1 January 1951 the newly activated Border Guard (Pohranioni straz - PS)
(Sbor narodni bezpeonosti - SNB) unit
The SUB border guard unit then reverted to the status of a regular
police unit. -SNB police functions consisted of combating the black market,
directing traffic, enforcing law and order, and other police work in-
cluding fire-fighting. The SNB did no intelligence work whatsoever.
Its main headquarters was in Prague and there were also regional head-
quarters and stations in each village with a population of more than 1,000.
Members of the SNB were in uniform at all times.
its personnel numbered about 3,000 officers and enlisted men and it had ~..y,
approximately 3,000 pistols, 3,000 SMGs, 6,000 grenades, 3,000 pairs of
handourrs, and 200 LMGs. The following is the f/8 of Utvar 9600, as of
31 December 1950 flee Enclosures A and
as The smallest border guard unit in the SNB was a platoon (seta)
consisting of 25 men. The platoon leader was a chief patrolman
(vrohni strazmistr); the ,rest were patrolmen (strazmistr),
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(1) A platoon had the following equipment:
(a) 1 Skoda Tudor (similar to the US Jeep)
(b) 2 - 3 Jawa motorcycles
(c) 2 - 3 Bicycles
(d) 2 Pairs of binoculars (6 x 30), made by
Optika Techna or Meopta (post World War II)
(e) 2 LMGs, model VZ26 (kept in the supply room)
(f) Some platoons had two to three dogs.
(2) Each member of the platoon had a German 9-mm Parabola or
PArabellum pistol, a model 25 SMG, two T-34 grenades, and
a pair of handcuffs. SIN men had no gas 25X1
masks or regular army personal equipment. Until the
Sumer of 1950, each man carried with him his pistol with
25 rounds and his SMB with 200 rounds of ammunition. In
the Summer of 1950 the system was changed and weapons
and ammunition were issued only to men going on duty.
(3) One man of the platoon was called a preventive service
man (Organ ?reventivny aluzby - OPS); his function was
to have informants discover potential border crosses and
to interrogate those suspected border oroesers' who were
caught.
?b. SNB companies were composed of two, three, and sometimes four
platoons, depending on the stretch of border they had to
patrol. One officer and two NCOs were in a company headquarters.
The company's strength was 50 - 100 men. Three or four of the
men were operations men. Each company had the following equipment:
0- 100 pistols, 50 100 SMGe, 100 - 200 grenades, and
4 - 8 LMGs. ,.
0. There were 40 officers and enlieted.men in the headquarters of
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battalion consisted of about 50 officers and 600 enlisted men;
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three platoons axed ash platoon had 40 men. The signal
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to that of the ;t ervice company. The OPS section had 10 men.
A: T/O of SNB Unit
B: T/E of SNB Unit
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