ARMORED BATTALION AT SZENTES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000100080046-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: December 28, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Raungary
SECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT 25X1A
SUBJECT Armored Battalion at Szentes
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DATE ACQUIRED
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DATE (OF INFO.) 00t 53
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL OEM EN/E
OM THE UNITED STATE?, WITHIN THE MEANING 0M TITLE 16, SECTIONS 715
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LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIVED PERSON IS
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orMored 33 I- Ali' can a ntu
3 a QaarLtersa In the new armored barra+s ks south of the road to Szarvas
4. Organization; Staff and staff obteilsung about 70 me"
DATE DISTR,r Dec 1953
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Superior Command: Rifle division command at Kisksunfelegyhaza
Training: From 1 Oct to 23 Dec, reerait and Infantry training, Spedial training
by groups begins on 1 Jan for gin zers, machine gunners, drivers, tank
drivers, intelligence service.
Reconnaissance plat ion un 40
Three armored companies
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Armament, Reconnaissance platoon, machine pistols
Armored companies, each 15 repeating pistols, 45 machine pistols,
20 carbines, 3 light machine guns
Ar?.m', re 26 TT-34 tanks with 76,2 mm guns
Vehicle Park: 2 Skoda open personnel carriers; 1 closed personnel carrier of
Soviet type; 3 German personnel carriers, three 1.5-ton trucks;
fifteen 3-ton tucks, 30 motorcycles, Csepel type.
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ENCLOSURE M~ proved For Release I 999/0?g3 CIA-RDP81-01036R00010
SKETCH OF ARMORED FORCE BARRACKS AT SZENTES
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Officers:.
Battalion commander, Captain Karoly Szilasi, about 36 years old, medium height,
powerful; said to have been a. noncomimissioned officer in the ro.,l
Hungarian honved; very popular,
Recoxnaissance Platoon commander, Lieutenant Kitai, 24 years old, brown hair,
slim,
e. The. 2nd .Armmored Company commander, Lt. Gyula Sebestyen, 25 years old, brown
hair, tall*
d. The 3rd Armored Company commander, First Lt. Kglrkn Lestyan, a farmerts son,.
28 years, old, very popular.
e. Quartermaster, Lieutenant Molnar, about 25 years old, well liked.
10. Recruiting; On 1 Oct 52 the battalion received about 140 recruits, of whom
44 percent .came,from Budapeat'and neighborhood, 30 percent from West Hungary,
20 percent from North. Hungary, and 10 percent from other places.,
21. Enclosure;,(A);?.is .a. sketch of tbe.,bar zacks. On thi4, etch, 'the figure 1.ip4 cotes
the main eratraanes; 2, the ga8ard punt; 3, metieal examining offfiee, infirmary and
depot; 4, main building of ground floor and three stories, for enlisted men and
command; 5, depot; 6, garages.
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ENCLOSURE (A): Sketch of'Armored Force Barracks at Szentes
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