HONVED TARGET RANGE AT VARPALOTA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000200080016-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: July 8, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY
SUBJECT Honved Target Range at Y rpalota
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DATE DISTR. f Tu ty 1'954
IS DOCUMENT CONTAINS IIIFO,",TION AFFECTINS THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, W11-I N TNEMEANINS OF TITLE 16. SECTIONS 798
AND 754, OF THE U.S. COD((, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE?
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT eV AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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1. At'YYrpalota there is a training course for reserve non-cons, with about 150
students. The course lasts two months. They are former members of the Hon'ved,
whose politjcal reliability has been atte;ted.
2. There is also a sharpshooter3s school for the army, with 150 to 200 students,
good shots from the reserve.. Training with the Tokarev,autolmatic rifle fitted with a
3 in the handling of eTplosives
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ti:lescope sight is especially emphasized. Instruct o
Attached
is also given. The cow aanz is 1st .t. Ldriat The school is in
as an instructor, is Sub-Lt. Laszlo Lss
the former Zichy castle In the west, part of the town.
There is a target range staff company of about 100 men.
4. The car park consists of one Chevrolet passenger car, 3 Tatra passenger cars,
4 Open-ICapitam passenger cars,, eight 3.5-ton Csepel trucks, nine 3-ton ZIS trucks.
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ENCLOSURE (A): Sketch Map of Varpalota, with Military Objects
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SKETCH MAP OF VARPALOTA, WITH MILITARY OBJECTS 25X1
1. Main square with a
depot of Honved
material
2,3. Barracks, occupied by a
rifle battalion
4. Former Zichy castle
5. Police headquarters
6. AVH barracks, with about ~
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