HUNGARIAN TROOPS IN DEBRECEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001600550004-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 23, 2003
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 1, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2003/08/07 : CIA-RDP80-0081OA001600550004-0
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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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.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Hungary
SUBJECT Hungarian Troops in Debrecen
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A police school of the AVH is in the former-artillery barracks near the'rail-
road station. The number of students is about 500.
2. A police training school has been quartered in the buildings of the former
gendarmery district command. There are about 1,000 students. The commander
is Police Col. Attila VAJDA, a former gendarme and an embittered Communist.
He was interned until 1944 for helping Jews.
3. A signal battalion has been installed in a newly built barracks. It is fully
motorized and about 300 men strong. The recruits are mostly from Feher County.
4. The artillery barracks west of the road to Nyyregyhaza on the Nagyerdo height,
which was badly damaged during the war, was completely rebuilt during the
spring of 1953.
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