SOVIET TROOP MOVEMENTS IN THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN BORDER AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A060300180001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 11, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 15, 1961
• Content Type: REGULATION

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material "ontains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Seca. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
COUNTRY Hungary/USSR REPOR
SUBJECT Soviet Troop Movements in the DATE DISTR. s c 4A~j
Austro-Hungarian Br-rder Area
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DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE &
DATE ACQ.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION.
e a'tas forest between the rai w line Sarvar, Kald and
a egerszeg and the Raba River (see sketch , y is now full of Soviet troops.
Access to the f'or~ t is prohibited even for forest rangers., and entry points
are guarded by Soviet sentries. 50X1-HUM
2e Two Soviet check points were operating at the end of July on the road west
of Hosseupere.s t gig, ac shown at I and II :gin the attached sketch, Each was
manned by two Soviet sentries, armed with sub-machine guns and wearing black
collar patches, who stopped all travelers to request documents and ascertain
their bue.ines.e' a
3e Railway employee; at Rum (see sketch) reported that, at the end of June.,
Soviet troops arrived at Kald by rail and truck. Three train loads were
observed during that period unloading at Kald whence they proceeded by
truck in the direction of Kaldi. Hegy in the Farkas forest, Other units are
known to have entered the forest recently from other directions, mostly from
Janoshaza.. Vehicle tracks entering the forest were also observed at check
point I on the sleet :,t-L P
4. In all, two Soviet rifle regiments are reported to have arrived in the Farkas
forest areae No tanks have been observed.
5. In Bej gyertyanos
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Soviet Army truck.
July, in charge o_
Soviet
lages,
were also seen at Ny8ger and Sotony vil-
the Far Ras ores' has been full of Soviet troops an
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INFORMATION' 'REPOR'T IN-FORMATION REPORT
in the marker, sauare
were observed on 25
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the village church, two
w isn was a sergeant wi i1 b ack shoulderboardse Two
sinae mid- or late June.,
no one has been
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allowed to enter the forest, not even to cut wood.
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