1. POSSIBLE RADAR SITE IN BRNO 2. AAA SITE IN BRNO 3. RESTRICTED AREA NEAR VRANOV

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000500360001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 26, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 26, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION 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 Czechoslovakia
REPORT NO.
SUBJECT 1.
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Possible Radar Site
AAA Site in Brno
in Brno DATE DISTR. 26 Octapr
1955
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Restricted Area near
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DATE OF INFO.
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Military Camp Area. This was an old camp.
number of barracks locate in the northwest-OW-Mr-WmFAmmv----
The six or seven barracks
5 m., witn low gaole
were of wood construction, 30 x 10 x
rooi covered with tarpaper..
9. AAA Site.
because
their location.
2200 hours, on two occasions,
'beams over Brno: There were two
' coming from different directions
aircraft in the beams.
Reference is made to page 5
in Brno
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believed the cannow., to be
observed a slight change in
searchlights in the
in the Brno area.
During autumn 1954 at about
searchlight
to three beams each time,
. Both times there was an
sketch of the possible radar site
1. Old villa located in a garden. (See point 2, page 40 this
report.)
2. Barvicova Street, asphalt, four meters wide.
3. Single-story brick construction; 15 x 5 x 5 m.0 flat roof. This
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spoken of in Brno as being a radar or jamming station,
4. Steel tower, about 25 m. high. There was no above-ground
connection .between this tower and the building, point 3, above.
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Steel screen, rectangular shape, 2.5 x 2 m. x 5 em., attaehed
horizontally to the top of the tower.
Bowl-shaped fixture near the top of the tower, Steel screens
1.5 m. in diameter facing to the west.
because of certain structure around it
it could be moved in all directions.
Antenna on the roof of the Tina (point 20 page 4). The
vertical mast was about three meters high and the horizontal
rods about two meters long.
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.Brno - Ceska Trebova highways asphalt, eight meters wide, good
condition, heavy traffic.
2. Dirt road four meters wide.
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Restricted area. in the woodA north of
Brno p exact
location unknown. This area was about 100 x 100 la., fenced
off with a wooden fenee two meters high. There were "OFF LIMITS"
signs on the fence. some kind of equipment
covered with canvas. 1; looked like two over-sized searchlights.
One of them was about three meters ..i meter and the other about
two meters in diameter. about five soldiers in
the area, but ere was a wooden barrack which could
billet about 20 soldiers.
There were some diggings made in this area.
there were aircraft observation itations located around Brno.
this could have been one of them.
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Sketch of A Possible Radar Site and AAA Location
Scale: 1:11,520
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Sketch of A Possible Radar Site in Brno
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Sheet U-11 1:100,000
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