TRAINING OF CZECH ARMY OFFICERS IN THE USSR; CZECH MANEUVERS IN THE LAZNE KYNZVART AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008600520012-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 15, 2003
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: September 14, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGEN
INFORMATION RE-PORT
COUNTRY Czeohosloan.Lia,
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SUBJECT Training of Czech Axe Officers in the USSR; NO. OF PAGES 1
Czech Ihnomvers in the Lazne Kynzvart Area
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2. Czech summer maneuvers during 1951 emphasize training in resistances to gas
attacks. All troops in the Lazne Kyn,art (51/P56) maneuver area have been
provided with gas masks as have those in vnrictis military garrisons in the area,
3. The western border areas in the vicinity of Lazne Kynzvart and Karlovy VAry
are occupied not by regular army troops but by what are believed to be special
STD detachments. Their uniforms are simil-r to the Czech army uniform,, except
that they have red and green uniform facings and epaulets frith green borders.**
4. The close scrutiny-of the Czech army officer corps continues. Periodically,
individual officers are summoned to battalion or regimental headquarters where
they are screened by a special security tribunal, which checks on their political
orientation. Officers who do not meat the necessary ideologicl standards are
discharged or, in the case of certain specialists, are assigned to secondary
positions. All draftees are given a similar but less rigorous screening on
entering the arry. In some instances individuals who do not meet the required
political standards are not taken into the army but are assigned to la^or camps
or labor details outside the regul-r cams.
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1. Starting on 1 September 19 1 an unknown number, rumored to be several hundred,
25X1 Czech army officers will be sent to a special military school in the USSR. The
group, which is said to be made up of completely reliable Communist, includes
many Sudeten Cerrans. TSiny of the officers have lived outside Czechoslovakia
at some time. According to rumorp they are being sent to a "fifth column"
school for train-big in sabotage and guerrilla tactics.
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I ammontr I unable to state whether this is a rogi6 a1 order
primarily aassoclated with the maneuvers or is an overall am y order.
25X1 `"` Cosrment: The uniforms are those of the SIM. However, it is believed
that the 3tla _T~; Rte; -na~vision still has its headquarters in Karlovy Vary.
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