MILITARY ALERTS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2013
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 1, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMA I iON REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
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. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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COUNTRY Austria/USSR
SUBJECT
Military Alerts
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Supplemental Soviet Soviet Standard
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Brief No 6 1
SOVIET ARMY ALERTS
.n Austria, there
were four different types of alerts called. Three of these were in the nature
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of training alerts and were called either by the Battalion CO as a.battalion
alert, the Company CO as a company alert, or by
alert The other alert was a CGF-wide-alert
the Platoon CO as a platoon
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1. PlatoOn Alerts
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call a practice platoon
a platoon leader could
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alert for training purposes, with the permission
of his Company CO. This was
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done in some platoons by the platoon
CO or at the instigation
for the platoon involved,
ofhompany CO as a general punishment measure
platoon leader never
called an alert for his platoon for any reason.
2. Company Alerts
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called an alert for the Signal Company of the
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135th Sep Air Warning Battalion at least once a month. The alert order was
generally verbal, and Company personnel were notified of the &left by the
Company duty soldier.
Por each alert one platoon of the company would assume a combat
guard deployment around the company area. The remaining company personnel
would receive specie.; loading instructions to load the organizational.equipment.
Upon being notified of a company alert, which was ,generally called a
half hour before normal reveille, all personnel dressed in their field clothes,
picked up their side-arms from the company arms room, donned their field 50:00
packs and gas masks and reported to their assigned positions.
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The company alerts were called off by the Company CO when he was
satisfied that every one was prepared' to move out. Normally these company
alerts lasted about five to eight minutes. After the alert' the Company CO
gimerally held a critique for the company to inform every one how everything
had gone.
3. Battalion Alerts
The Battalion CO of the 135th Air Warning. Iiin'senerally called the
battalion out for an alert every three or four months. However, he called an
alert five times in June 1954.
Notification of Battalion alerts came by telephone to each company,
the message being conveyed by a secret code word which
These were normally held early in the morning, just before reveille. The 50X1
Signal Company did exactly the same things for a Battalion
alert as they did during the company alerts. Alerts were called off by tele.'
phone, the code word being "pile (saw). These alerts generally lasted around
30 minutes.
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During the alerts, battalion staff officers visited each company and re-
ported their findings to the Battalion CO. After each alert, the Battalion CO
would then visit each company and hold a critique on it. Critique comments
generally covered the length of time for assembly of personnel and the names
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4. /COP Alerts
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the fall of 19534 There was no ',Air alert ln 4wn4. These alert p did not differ
in any way from the others held by the unit. hese were COP 50X1
alertd because the word was always passed that these were such.
5.
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50:00 never seen or heard of a written order or prepared instruc-
tion sheet pertaining to alerts. All orders concerning alerts were verbal,
unit drivers received instructions regarding themselves
and their vehicles during alerts from their individual Platoon' leaders and the
Company Technical Officer.
50:00 drivers had been instructed, during political
instruction classes conducted by the Company am ()lit, that in the event of
an actual combat alert, the 135th Air Warning Battalion had li hours in which
to load and move to a predetermined, further unspecified combat position.
whey were further instructed that all battalion communication equipment would
le mounted on trucks and would leave the area ready,for operation. Radio sets
'would establish contact with the net assigned to each set prior to departure
;from the unit, area.
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Comment 1:
information on Soviet
Army training and maneuvers. Irhie report gives
supplemental Information on the dame brief.
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