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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007500560011-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 12, 2013
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: April 5, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Prior to the end of October 1950, an AT artillery unit was stationed
in lorsovsky Tyn (1J 50/P 71). About 10 AT :uns, apparentay old Ljovie:-,
models, were observed with the unit when it loft for a field exercise
2. alitary installations in :lorsovsky Tyn were described as followe:
a. An old cantonment whicn was located near the road fork south-
southeast of the ten, on thc went side of the road to Demazliee
(r 50/P 7o).
b. A new cantonment of about 12 wooden buildings which was locatd
on the east side of the road to Domaslice, opposite the old canton-
ment The construction of the installation was started in the sur.::3cr
of 1950.
c. Two concrete-lined tunnels, each about 150 meters long, were near the
two cantonments. One of the tunnels was still under construction in
October 1950. They seemed to have been designed for the storage of
ammunition,
d. hn old barracks installation, possibly the Dragoon jarracks, which
was located in the center of the town. It contained one barracks
buildinz? one mess buildin,: and several old horse stables -which had
been converted into .,;arages.
e. A forner jxls, school in the southern sector of the town.
f. Three new officers' apartment houses which were located between the
two cantonments and the railroad line. Additional smaller houses
for officer families were under cOnstruction. **
3. A Soviet L:eneral was in the Hersovsky Tyn area in September 1950. It
was said that he came fron Domazlice and inspected Czedhoslovakian troop
units.
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4. A commission of Soviet officers and NCOs was billeted in the
castle of Kanicc (N 50/P 81) in September and October 1950.
The commission inspected schools, hotels, warehouses, etc.,
regarding their suitability for use as troop quarters. In
October 1950, the commission, which included a junior and a
senior lieutenant, also inspected the Praha Hotel and the
workmen's house in Stankov (N 50/P 81).
In October 1950, the cloister and the school in Ronsperk (N 50/
P 61) were requisitioned by a Czech agency and taken over for
troop billets. A large old barn was improved for use as emer?
gency quarters. The former German Reich Labor Service (RAD)
camp at Ronsperk was occupied by troops.
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19)480 The battalion was reportedly
0011iD ed with Soviet model ZI3 ? 3 AT guns of 76 mm caliber.
Comment. The 252nd AT Arty 13n is believed to have been 50X1-HUM
quartere in only one of the military installations described. It
is probable that the other installations, particularly the new c n?
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drivers school of 170 men of the llth Inf Div in November 1950.
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