CONSCRIPTION AND INDUCTION PROCEDURES

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005900450001-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 29, 2008
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 10, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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This material contains information aReoting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the iplona[e laws, This l$. V.S.O. Secs. "3
and 7Yt, the traneminlon or revelation of which In
any manner to an unauthorlaad person Is prohibited
by law.
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1. The men born in 1934 were due to start their national military service on 1 November
1954. This group of men received notification frorl their District Military
Command (Okresni vojenske velitelstvi - OW) in October 1952 to call within 14 days
at the nearest physician for a medical examination. The physician examined the
conscript, paying special attention to his throat and the X-ray, and marked the
findings on a form supplied by the OW. About three weeks later the conscript
received another note from the OW telling him to attend a conscription inventory
(odvodni soupis) at the OW at a certain date and time and to bring with him:
Citizen's identification card (obcansky prukaz)
Last school report
Result of medical examination
CP or Czech Youth Organization membership card
Driver's license
Any other personal documents
On the basis of these documents the OW issued the conscript a conscription
certificate (prukaz brance).
2. The conscription certificate was in the form of a two-page leaflet about 3 1/2
x 6 inches in size. On the outride of the first page is a printed inscription
"Prukaz brance" and the Czechoslovak seal. The inside of the document is'subdivided.
On the top half are the name and personal data. The top half ends with the clause:
"Registered by the OW -6t..." (Vzat do evidence OW...). The lower half begins with
a statement: "The bearer is due for conscription in 1953" (Podleha odvodu v r. 1953),
followed by : "Enlisted by draft board:" (Odveden Odvodni komisi:). Here, the name
of the place and the date of the conscript's preinduction examination is added
when this actually takes place. In spite of the sentence "Due for conscription
in 1953" the 1934 age group had not yet been called for preinduction examinations
as of July 1954. On the second page of the document the domicile and changes of
address are noted. On the last outside page (sic) instructions are printed, and,
finally, there is the signature of the conscript.
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Conscription and Induction Prccedures
ARMY NAVY
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10 March 1955
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3. Approximately three months later the conscripts received another note from the
OVV ordering them to appear before the District National Health Office (Okresni
urad narodniho zdravi) in order to be inoculated against tuberculosis.
4. At about the same time (February 1953) the conscripts received another summons to
appear before the OVV in order to get a SVAZARM membership card. The card contained
the name, personal data, and record of attendance at premilitary training.
Every conscript must keep this card until his induction into the army when he hands
it over to the military authorities. The receipt of the card at the OW had to be
sign9 by the conscript on a separate sheet. The sheet contained an appeal
for attending premilitary training; this training was supposed to be voluntary.
5. In August or September 1953 the conscripts in this group were again called up
by the OW to be tested on their efficiency acquired through premilitary training
(Prezkouseni branne zdatnosti). The tests took place on the local sport grounds on
Saturday afternoons or Sundays. A group of 40 always attended at one time. The testing
committee consisted of three junior officers, two of whom were reserve officers,
instructors of SVAZARM, while one was a regular army officer in uniform. There were
four NCO's assisting also. The tests consisted of the followings
Checking of eonscripti' 9VAZARM membership cards;
Close order drill in squads and platoons;
Combat exercises in three-member patrols (three-kilometer run with
obstacles, throwing of hand grenades, firing air guns).
After the test the officer in nharge made a short speech to the whole 25X1
group of conscripts and told them that the results achieved were very poor. This,
according to the speaker, was a consequence of not attending regularly the SVAZARM
premilitary training. He added that only 10 conscripts rat of 40 had their cards
marked for attendance and even these showed irregular attendance.
6. In June 1954 the conscripts were called by the OW for a second efficiency test.
The result of this test is unknown but is believed to be much 25X1
the same as of the first test.
7. Preinduction medical examinations of the con.scripte of the 1934 class were to takq place
in August - September 1954. When the conscripts appeared before the draft board
they were to have the place and the date of their examination inserted in their
conscription certificates (prukaz branne). The conscripts were to receive their
call-up papers two or three weeks before November 1954, which was to be the induction
date. The call-up papers contain only the date and hour of the conscript's appearance
at the appropriate OVV and a list of personal effects that must be brought along by
him.
8. The conscripts gathered at the OW on the induction day are taken by military escort
to the Regional Military Command (Krajske vojenske velitelstvi - KVV). There
they are arranged in groups acco~r'ding to their desi.rrriated uni .1.:. When the groups
are completed, they are put ir'~hhe bharge of NCO's and transported by rail or by road
to their destination. This is the first time that a recruit learns the unit he has
been assigned to.
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