TRANSFER OF MILITARY UNITS FROM SLOVAKIA TO WESTERN BOHEMIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006100240001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 27, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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:.~ The infantry unite foiier3y rrisoned at Zvolen and Jelsava and the artillery
unit fortaeriy at Brezno nad I?ronom have been transferred from their "tees in
Slovakia to the border area around Ia.chatiee in western Bohenia. it is not
known whether this is a riianont transfer or whether the units will return
to their foner garrisons in S1o?,rakia follotrln{ their nilitaay traixi Lng in
the border area n The reason f'o: thio transfer is that most of these troops
are Slunk veterans with conb at c xpe:~.-tenee and they are therefore veil quali-
fied to strengthen the border defense,
2, These units wrare recently anaged in an extensiveg nine-aweek training program
in which 20 Soviet instructors took part. They practiced both attack and or-
nixed writhdrawml Pron the border. ] r phasls was laid anon the u93 of artil-
lerv and mortars, and the sub chine parer 'thnedeny"'modal 4,9 and t
niaah3no gan "alioyetV model 49 were also tested.
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This document Is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central lntcitigence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
Approved For Release 2003/08/11 : CIA-RDP82-00457R006100240001-1