AT UNIT IN JINCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004500320009-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 2001
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: February 27, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
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The 'following information on the AT regiment in Jince (N 50/
L 1-5) was obtained
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1;, Utvar Noe 4 6337 (verified by original furlough certigi=
cute of 1)4. December 1949 ) . PO box No.. 1A,
2h Quarters: Artillery 1.arracks, Jince, where the unit was
transferred from. Pacov (0 50/3 22) in September 19i9a
The barracks installations included quarters for out-of=
tovn units which used the Jince artillery range,
3,, CO of Regt-. Col Stanislav Cechmar, anti-Communist.
4, Or aizat ion and stren kx as Six batteries and a "perk
battery"
About 25 officers, 25 to 30 regular NCOs and about 400 EM
were in the regiment,,
5,, I mament o German 75-mm AT guns on self-propelled mounts
11Panzer j aeger'1)
Each battery was equipped with six guns.
Each gun crew included one gunner, one radio operator and
one driver.
As far as the deserter knew, the Jince regiment was the only
unit in Czechoslovakia to be equipped with AT guns on self-
propelled mounts:,
Other unitsa A military labor camp for politically unreliable
r .: was located in Svata Dobrotiva near Pribram (N 50/L 53).
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The reported Jince AT regiment is probably the 204th Arty
Regt, which was last identified with Tftvar No. 2134 in Iasov
in October 1948 o The regiment had been equipped with AT
guns and assigned to the 3rd Arty Brig of the then 2d NID,0
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This document is hereby regraded
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Next Review Date: 2008
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The reCi:..en t was i,ro ba bly transferred to Jince -Irter the
310th and 320th Arty Bns had iroved from Jince to Tabor.*
It is assumed from recent reports on Czech artillery units
that the independent artillery units of the former 2d is.D
were reorganized and that some of them, moved to other
military ?ostSQ Indications Eire that component units of
the Artillery Division were also affected by this reorgani-
zation0
The reported AT guns on self-propelled. mounts were re1eatedly
observed vrith Czectioslovakiar. AT artillery units: They are
:rob8bly German AT guns 113910 on .,T self-propelled mounts '138",,
The lany 207th Arty Rest wai 'equipped with this type AT gun.
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