INFANTRY AT PUKLICE CAMP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000100090046-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 27, 2000
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: February 16, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECRET
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT Infantry at Puklice Camp
PLACE ACQUIRED
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DATE ACQUIRED
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DATE (OF INFO.) Oct 1953
OF THE UNITED STATES. WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 783
AND 784. OF THE U.E. CODE. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVS.
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT SY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
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DATE DISTR./,6 Feb 1954
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1. The village of Puklice is eight km southeast of Jihlava. Two km southwest of Puklice
in a woods is a military camp and exercise area, consisting of 20 barracks buildings,
each. 15 by 60 m. Each building can take 100 men in double-deck beds.
The barracks is occupied by an infantry training battalion with the number VP-4951/B.
It is subordinate to the infantry regiment in Jihiava. The battalion consists of a
battalion staff, 25 to 28 men, with two passenger cars and three trucks; a training
staff, 32 to 35 men; three rifle companies, 100 to 110 men, with 75 Soviet rifles,
32 Soviet machine pistols, four Soviet light machine guns, one Soviet heavy machine
gun, and one rocket projector each; a weapons company commanded by Lt Lothar, 125 to
130 men, with four light machine guns, two heavy AA machine guns, two light 50 mm
mortars, two heavy 120 mrn mortars, two AT rocket projectors, two 76.2 mm AT guns,
40 machine-pistols, and # 5 Soviet rifles.
3. In Oct 1952 the battalion received 140 recruits. The regiment as a whole received
400 for training; all came from the 1.930 and 1931 classes. Most of them were from
Bohemia, but about 20 percent each from Slovakia and the border lands. Morale was
poor from the beginning, but the soldiers did not talk much. Recruit training
lasted until Feb 1953, with special attenti.)n given to political training. The
specialists were separated later. Gas masks were issued and there was thorough
antigas training,
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