ABSENCE OF SOVIET TROOPS IN WESTERN SLOVAKIA

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007200250011-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 24, 2009
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• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT cD NO.
CLASSIFICATION >Z,d `T/Cr)ITW)L - t, ry. :TTaI,1g, ILY
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT Absence of Soviet Troops in I-Testern Slavra.k9a
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No Soviet army rorsonnel ~nre 3-,?en either in train 3 or in railroad stations in
i ostorn Slovakia an late as 27 February, nor !..ere any Soviet military shin. tents
observed. Conversa",ions ?rith civilian t .-avelers gave io initic?ation; of the presence
of Soviet troors in `11ovak:ia.
2. Only Czech rillitary personnel *.,ye:ro obsey barracks l tions at the air-
field north of piestary on 16 Febr^aary. no Soviet troops,25X1
milit.znj vehicles or civilian bu'.ildiri s occur ?~ ,~ mono, an._ no cons'--ruction
of ba-racks installations.
. A caserne on ^tefaniV'-ova Street near L?ho railroad station in Trencin woos occupied
by Czech troops on 23 February. All nij.itary personnel obsorve,i In the billeting,
arm a and in the to~,rn t;nro Czech uxniforris. The tientry at the caserne spoke Slovak.
Ho construction of barracks or of civ5.lian buildinp;i by nilitary personnel was
noticed in T_ro,?c:tn.
4 The nilitary installations on the :touth,nst perinetor of Zil.inra on the road to
Zavolie wore observed on 27 February to be uardect by a sentry wearinrr a Czech
uniform. Ito Sovi.ot tr^oope or rtil'ttary vehicles were observed in Zilina, nor
were cant' rietr r1litary install.ationn noticed to be under conetr>iction.
C rir:~ent: This report in;licates that no Soviet troops *.-Y are stationed its
ins - rn Slava":1.a and thus confirm?, he assuinttion of nid February that no Soviet
divisions arrived in the Trencin-F'iestarq-Zi3.tna-Banslsa. fystrica area.
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