CZECHOSLOVAK TANK TROOP OFFICERS

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 31, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
,")UNTRY Czechoslovakia
UBJECT Czechoslovak Tank Troop Officers
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The following are brief characterizations of important officers in the
Czechoslovak Tank Troops.
.'.0.2rural !auousek - Ministry of National Defense and General Staff
Chief of Tank Troops; fanatical Communist, careerist, lacking in character;
able officer.
20 General Staff Colonel M I - Papousek"a Chief cf Staff; careerist, lacking
in character; able officer.
0101 F@ Mi.kec - Commanding Officer of the 23rd Tank Brigade; fanati-
cal Communist; of average ability.
4. Colonel Dcmleiaek - Commanding Officer of the 21st Tank Brigade; opportunist,
lacking in character; joined the Coamnxnist Party in 1945; served in the Czecho-
slovak Western Army during the war; poor in combat,
50 0210-2 ' ,?P.a , - Connanding Officer of the 22nd Tank Brigade; good officer,
man of character; formally joined the Cntnmunist Party because of the rressare
exerted on him,
60 ;au paj t Colonel C_y, , RuehtFA - Coramnding Officer of the 24th Tank Brigade;
good Communist, former partisan; able officer.
70 (AeneIl Eno-- Chief of Tank Corps; joined the Corm unist Party to save his
position; good man; poor commanding officer; was Czechoslovak Military Attache
in Moscow0
80 A s f ~ ~ - Fusek's Chief of Staff; Communist (joined the
Party after February 1948), of defective character; does not measure up to
his job0
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9. eutenant Colonel Skonecek - Commanding Officer of the 11th Tank Brigade;
fanatical Communists, average commanding officer.
10. I? tenant Colonel of the General Staff Ii yas -- Commanding Officer of the
12th Tank Brigade; good Comnuni.st, ve able officer.
U. Co new. ChMta1 ysi -'Commanding officer of the Motorized Brigs--de attached to
the Tank Corps; former officer of the Czechoslovak Western Arty; non-Com-
nist; able officer; now disinterested and disgusted.
12. C1ont1.F. Rerabek - Commanding Officer of the Tank Training Center at Dedice;
former officer of the Czechoslovak Western Arny; forced to join the Communist
Party; very able commanding officer.
13. ftior of the.General Saff &Mbn - Battalion Commander in the 11th Tank
Brigade; very able officer; non-Communist; is in charge of all training in
the 11th Tank Brigade.
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