AUXILIARY TECHNICAL BATTALION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005300720008-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 13, 2007
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: November 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This material contains Information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.O. Secs. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT li. A iliac Technical Battalion (PTP)
2, ter. PTP Units
3. Call--up and Release from the -M
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1. Auxiliary Technical Battalion (PTP) consists of five companies of about
100 men each and a battalion HQ sta .
2. Disposition:
a. HQ, an unidentified company, and part of the 3rd company are in Kosice
(N 48-42, E 21-15). The companies are working on the reconstruction of the
military camp which is east of the Hornad River.
b. The 4th and 5th companies are working at Presov (N 49-00, E 21-15) on the
construction of a new airforce officers' school, officers' quarters, and
barracks for paratroopers.
c. An unidentified company is at Poprad (N 49-03, E 20-18) working at'the
airfield and at the military sanatorium in Tatranska Polianka.
d. A part of the 3rd company is working at Mokrad Airfield near Liptovsky
Hradok (N 49-02, E 19-44).
3. Personnel:
Lt. DUGAS (fnit), the battalion commander.
Capt. Karel KOPECKY, commanding 5th company
Lt. PARILA (fnu).
Lt. RENDOS (fnu).
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Lt. SEDLAK (fnu), battalion finance officer.
2nd Lt. DANK (fnu), commanding 4th company.
4. Other PTP units include the following: PTP Komarno, composed mostly of clergy
working on farms; PTP Libava, working in the area of Ostrava and in Slovakia;
PTP Ostrava, working in the Ostrava mines; PTP Bilina, composed mostly of
Slovakiazclergy. There is also a training center for PTP instructors in the
former Lobkovioz castle.
5. Call-ups for service-with PTP take place three or four times a year. The
actual call-up is ordered by regional military commands upon the advice of
local national committees through district military commands. The local
national committees have so-called action groups composed of the security
officer, the chairman of the local national committee, and the chairman of
the local Communist Party organization. These action groups pick out
individuals frofn their communities who are branded as disruptive elements.
These individuals are usually persons known to be against the regime but who
did not commit any specific offense for which they could be prosecuted by
law. They are mostly former shopowners, kulaks, and clergy, who are con-
sidered to enjoy come respect in their neighborhood even if deprived of
their former property or position. The list of these people is sent on to
the district military command, which in turn passes the list to the regional
military commandq. So*e'persona, such as students of theology, are put into
PTP directly by the StB.
6. Release from the PTP can be accomplished:
a. On medical grounds.
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b. On recommendation of military authorities, if the person in question shows
a positive Political attitude and achieves better than average work output
during his service with the PTP. The release in this case is dependent
on final consent by the local national committee. Cases are quite common
where the military authorities proposed a transfer of a PTP member into
civilian life and the local national committee decided that the man must
remain in service isolated from the community.
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