HUNGARIAN TROOPS IN ZALAEGERSZEG-TAPOLCA-NAGYKANIZSA AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004700370005-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 16, 2003
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: March 15, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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The following information on Hungarian troops in the Zalaegerszeg
.(Y 4/V 10) ..T po1ca (Y 4/D 35) -Nagykanizsa (i 4/A 26) area
was obt`? ined ) ?
4;a?. aegerszegq
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Component units of Na battai. on were uartered l.n the O:~ai
S-hrpekt Barracks nd he INTevi Barracks
e a a on is tne
:32d Border Guard Bn. It had been brought up to full strength
in fate November 1949.
(1) The unit with the following elements, was seen leaving,
for marching exercises on 8 and, 13 Dece.,:ber 1949
(a) Lngineer platoon: One officer and 44 EM, equipped with
Saws, axes y spades and armed with Soviet submachine guns with
drum ma=;mines.
(b) 13ifle p i-atoons: Of 44 men each, led by officers or NCOs.
Three mounted officers (one a major) were with the platoons.
"Che troops were equipped with Hungarian ste0l helmets, long
carbines with bayonets field bags and infzntry spades. The
squads were equipped is h light machine guns; only a few
soldiers carried a Soviet submachine gun with drum magazine,
Iu:l wore short boots and new uniforms without epaulets. officers
yore visor-type caps.
(c) Mortar sections : Of six EVT and one mule handler each,.
i oannd base plates and 120-mm mortar barrels were loaded on
small carts.
(d) 'Heavy machine gun sections a Of six EM and one mule ir.~,ndler
each. Heavy machine guns of Soviet makeswith rounded-off
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several soldiers of the batta.Apn would probably soon 25X1
move to the Yugoslav border, ` 1
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One artillery piece and 14 horse-dravin vehicles loaded with
hay xvero seen in the and of the I:eti 1?arracksA 25X1
lone field artillery
a my and one battery were quartered in the idew T3arr? 3cks a
Two artillery batteries were transferred from VI a barracks to
an unknown de~tinztion in late Ilovembor 1949? The AAA battery
had previously been emplaced north of Zalaegerszeg.
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in the "Ne Keresd" Forest, the gun
emplacen nt is still guarded anti that ammunition was left
be'.i.nd0 l3).
c t it3.n 0 @
the 9th Recruiting Office has been
at 1 Ady Lnt re Street since October 11*149. It was under the Pecs
(Y 5/R 22) Uilitary District Headquarters.
(1) The last inductions were in November 1949. Some of the
inducted men went to Tapolca and about 300 to.B.aja (Y 6/S 27)m
Altogether about 700 had volunteered for enlistment. Nonp-rty
r;ier.ibers were rejected and told to w;j_ait for an induction in
April 1950,
d0 A Soviet major, closely In touch with Hungarian officers
and accompanying the Hungarian units on their rinrci..ing exercises,
resided at 16 Zarda Street.
Q Ta ,olea
An air force uzni.t, a signal unit and a small artillery tin
were in a camp near the airfield, 00 of the SP artillery unit
was a I.aj Sandor (or Andras) P.logybrossy (former AA artillery-
man and tezirorarily teacher at the Kossuth Academy). From talks
with SP artillerymen it was learned that the unit was eruipped
with Soviet SP guns *:rith muzzle br,aike, (4)
Nagykanisza:
a ? Dco r w ~ 1 o r. The b }ttalion was mart reel in the
d; ar _ ly Barracks (also known as Dozsa Gycergy barracks). The
Me 0:3' a i., a j Baraeskay was man.t ioned. by one of the border g ' a:sroc s a
bq i rtUl.g?r ;: inn t : Two battc rtes were quarte,rod in. t.ie Gabor
Aron Barracks. any officers :sere seen there. Local residents
stated that other artillery troops were quartered in the Karoly
Barrac'ksa (6)
a4 ,a i y J . : An infantry unit, ostirr~tod at( T. battalion,
recently moved into the 'tPorencz