PARATROOPERS SCHOOL IN STRAZ POD RALSKAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005900500009-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 6, 2003
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: September 14, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia ~~... ~_ -REPORT NO.
TOPIC pm^atrooners e School in ;straw Pod Idalskem
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EVALUATION n _.._....-.-_PLACE OBT, INED
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DATE OF CONTENT-19 Novonber l9tiB3 to 20 December 194 8
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DATE OBTAINED DATE PREPARED verter~her 1950 -14
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PAGES Z' -ENCLOSURES (0. & TYPE)._ 2 one sketch on ditto
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1., Admission to the ~paratroonere r school in Straz Pod :?alskem (0 5l1F 95)
depended on an ex minati.on in snorts, a psycho--technical check and a
political screening by the Coriu.ist Party and the SNB home office of
the prospective student.
2. The school, located in the woods between Straz and Lake Kumr, consisted
of nine temporary barracks for s, one temporarl= bar cks :Pr officers,,
one temporary barracks used as a clothing depot and one guardno ,~vv ,,,
The installatiomsfor instruction included an obstacle course 3200 meters
long; an obstacle course 800 meters long; one installation for diffi-
cult jumps; one overhead cableway for jumping from an altitude of 6
meters; one blocked.-up instruction Dakota: aircraft; one firing range;
ore instruction room; three durary houses for training in house-to-house
Bighting; one railroad track section; one obsolete locomotive and
several railroad cars to use for practicing, the fixing of demolition
charges. *
3. The obstacle courses included barbed-mire entan lements, water ditches,
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er o stacles. There were rn.nimum standards for obstacle runs, for
example the 800--motor course had to be taken in 7 minutes,,
The cabloway had individual seats. The student had to operate the re-
lease pawl to be dropped to the ground..
Firing; submachine guns from different positions was practiced at the
ran e
6. The three dummy houses occupied by durmy soldiers were attacked with
hand grenades and then taken in close combat,.
7. Each table in the instruction room had a telephone device. Instruction
was given in the operation of radio sets parachutes, etc.
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The large airfield which Yaws strongly guarded was near Kunr
(0 51/F 94). Parachute juamrs were practiced there.
Comment. For ayvut sketch of school see Annex 2.
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The unit was previously designated as battalion. The present
ro:)ort supplies the first data on the location and organization
of the school. It confirms another report stating that only
re arator courses for parachutists wore hold in traz Pod Ralskem.
It is assumed from the sketch that the school is
in a woods, which is entered on maps in the scale 1:100,000, about
2 km west of ,tray, Pod .Ralskem. The recorded airfield is northeast
of Kumr and south ofM:iryon (0 51/F 95). It is usually called to as
?.umon airfield. Details on the field were previously submitted.
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