SOVIET TROOPS IN APETLEN AND THE AREA EAST OF NEUSIEDL LAKE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008300400008-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 19, 2012
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: July 24, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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L. Oa 24 Vay 1951, wooden barracks buildings were under construction in the AAA
flg-.) near Apetlon Two additional barracks and several. frames
for large tents were completed by 30 May. The guns and motor vehicle we:re
lined ap at the same place. The road leading from Apetlon to the Ape.:1011
Maierhof ( dairy), situated 2.5 km. south of the center of Apetlon, wa
blocked'. to traffic by a road barrier. AAA officers were billeted in the
customs houses in Apetlon.
AAA firing practice v:ould start on 5 June 1951. Apart
. from the motor vehicles mentioned above, 9 van-like trucks - vicre seen --an
30 May which had apparently arrived by road. Troops in the camp practiced
with three AA machine guns the sans day. Jeep coming from the
direction of Apetlon on 31 May,, carried a captain and a senior lieutenant,
vkto wore red-bordercd black epaulets and had portfolios with them, to the
Pamhagenl [railroad station, where bath officers boarded the
train toward Neueics1.1 .*
A train from. Hungary Which passed through Parndorf. on 26 Ugy
carried 3 canvas7covered devices and truck on flatcars. Tbi.
materiel was escorted b So at soldiers. trc,,op
train frcm Begyeshalom passed throug arn or owar
between 10 and 14 May.
On 1 ?'Atne, Camp Apetlon- was occupied by AAA units. No firing practiL-o
was noticed. The road leading from Apetlon to the liaierhof ( dairy)
as restricted to all civilians other than the residents of the Mie:rhof,*
On 1 June, truck occupied by a captain and a.driver, trio[t
to cross thv border to Hungary at Pamnagen, but had to return becausc.i
there was no border-crossing point there.
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by soviet AAA Unita? Jeep
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