BORDER GUARD BRIGADES IN VOLARY AND PLANA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007900060003-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 13, 2011
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: June 11, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE`AG?NCY REPORT
INFORMATION CD NO,
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT Border Guard Brigades in Votary and Plana
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1. By an order Issued on I Decerber 1950 by the TTinist of AT?tional Defense (sic),
s cial border guard units suborlinated to the T1inistry of Interior -,.acre organized
to seal the Czech-Gerr^an border and prevent illegal border crossings. The new
units, are orrranized as brigades with a total strength of about 2,000 nen each,
So, far, brigade headizarters have be in identified at Volary, Plana and Cheb. Each
brigade consists of eight battalions of five co: raniee. The boarder units are
manned by soldiers in their second year of conpuleory training, taho receive a
special course of training, before being as ,igned to border guard duty. Over half
of these nen are Slovra'.. ab The training courses are of two to three nonths dura-
tion and are given at brigade hea'Iquarters. They consist of political education
and ',raining; in border guard duties. Each non 3s arr?ed with a sar,bna- chine -an -rith
to clips, a 7.65 -n r~istol with tr>o clirs and one "kola hand grenade. The sub-
r~ac'iine guns are of various crakes at present, but an effort is boin radio
surely all units with new Czech submachine ryuns.
2. The headquarters of the brigade in Volrary (unit no. 9500) is located in the
Tourist !Total near the railroad station. The brigade corrander is " a jor, Gallas
a . Zelszna Ruda
b. Praaily.
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c. Knspor ,ire i!ory
d. ICvilda
a. Icunzva --t
f. Stozec (Taosset)
g. TTorni Plana
h. Dolni Vltavice
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Border , rrd cor ranies are billeted in now crooden bets !Ihich have been erected
In rains all along the Czech-German boner about 500 r:^ iron the nor ;-
line and f ror. one to two kn apart according to the terrain. In each case one
buil3in- is used to house the troops and the other to house the unit ?citchon,
ar'run:ition stores, and offices o" the cor anding officer and his {le^uty. The
builrlings are 'sanded by one sentry day and ni^-ht. Conrany he.zd trirters are
con: ectod :r3 th battalion hon.-I z