1. SALE OF SURPLUS ARMY VEHICLES 2. PAINTING OF CSAD VEHICLES WITH CD PAINT 3. NEW UNIFORMS FOR RAILROAD EMPLOYEES PRIOR TO AUGUST 1954

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000500160002-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 30, 2013
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 21, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORI
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Seca. 793 and 704, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
COUNTRY
SUBJECT
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
Czechoslovakia
REPORT NO.
1. Sale of Surplus Army Vehicles DATE DISTR.
2. Painting of CSAD Vehicles
with OD Paint NO. OF PAGES
for Railroad Employees
REQUIREMENT NO.
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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia DATE DISTR. 27 Mel 1955
SUBJECT 1. Sale of Surplus Army Vehicles NO. OF PAGES a
2. Painting of CSAD Vehibles with OD Paint
3. New Uniforms for Railroad Employees
DATE OF INFORMATION
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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Sale of Surplus Army Vehi;ples
Sometime in May 1953, the Czechoslovak Army put up for sale on
the civilian market all of its old foreign-made vehicles such
as GMs, Fords, and Bedfords They were offered at relatively
low prices. /
Some surplus Czechoslovak manufactured Army vehicles, such as
Skoda-Tudor sedans and Java (250 cc.) motorcycles with over
100,000 km. on the speedometer, were also placed on the market.
These surplus Army vehicles were sold preferably te) members of
the Border Guards. Communist Party members, and various national
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Tudor with 100,000 km. on the speedometer ana In godd condition
priced at 6,000 crowns (old currency). this car
could have been re-sold for about 350,000 crowns (old currency).
However, this car was to be sold only to Border Guard personnel
for their' tersoual use,
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Czechoslovakia manufactured
enough heavy motor vehicles to supply the armed forces With home-
produced products; and since.parts'for vehicles of foreign manu-
facture were hard to obtain, the Army finally was permitted to
sell such vehicles to civilians./
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only army vehicles were ofCzeohoslovak manufacture, such
as: Tatra 111, cargo 10-ton capacity, three axle(d.W.) trucks;
Tatra 111, cargo, less than 10-tOn capacity, two-axle trucks.
also seen a new type Of light truck of about two-ton
oapacity,being used. extensively only by the Army since the summer
or 1953. some national enterprises
also owned and operated Tatra 111,
three-axle (d w ) trucks.
.Painting of CSAD Vehicles with OD Paint
In the summer of 1953,
the CSAD (Ceskoslovenska automobilova doprava, n.p. -- Czechoslovaiv
Automobile. Transport, National Enterprise) in Prerov (N 49-27,
1-1747), drivers of this organization were informed without
any explanation or reason that all CSAD trucks and buses were to
be painted an OD color by the end of 1953..
the vehicles of other national enterpriseswere also being painted
with OD paint at about this time. The agency responsible for the
order was not known
New UniKorms? for Railroad Employees
after May 1954, Czechoslovak railroad
employees began wearing new dark blue uniforms tailored in
military style. Lower rahking-employeds Wore light blue shoulder,"
boards without any piping. Dark blue stripes worn on these
shoulderboards were used to denote ranks. The shoulderboards
of higher -officials were silver in color. Gold metal stars,.
somewhat smaller than those worn by Army officers. were used
to denote ranks of higher officials. I
7 The uniform also included visored caps of the same color and
material as the rest of the uniform.? The conventional rails*
roaderts winged wheel insignia made out of silver metal was
worn on these caps, One exception was that the individual who
gave the signal to the locomotive engineer to get the train into
motion wore a visored cap made out of red material* . Female rail,"
road employees wore the same type of uniforms as males, including
trousers, but some wore dark blue berets in lieu of visored caps.
Blouse lapel flashes, also made of a light blue materialon which
the winged wheel was superimposed, were worn by all ranks.
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not know whether the Czechoslovak railroads were under
military control or whether employees had to participate in military
training, although they greeted each other with
military salutes, this was not anything new,, and did not necessarily
indicate control or subordination to the Army, since such salutes
were customary even prior to the Communist Coup in CzechosloVakia
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