PROPOSED MILITARY ADMINISTRATION OF THE RAILROADS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003100300010-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 30, 2005
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: December 14, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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SECRET/CONTROI, - U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT Proposed Military Administration
of the Railroads
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.B. Code, as
emended. 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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14 December 1953
1.. The railroads are soon to come under Army management and an Army general is
to be the head of the Ministry of Railroads . Railroad personnel are to
get Army-type uniforms and a special military disciplinary and penal code will
be issued for the railroad service, according to the Soviet model.
2. The staff of the Ministry of Railroads- in Prague, which"amounts to 2,000
persons,. is to be cut considerably. Before World War II, the entire Ministry
of Transportation had a staff of only.700.
The government reorganization of 14 September 1953
recombined the Ministry of Railroads with the Ministry of Transportation
to form the present Ministry of Transportation.
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