PARACHUTE TRAINING IN HRADEC-KRALOVE.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009300130007-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2001
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 17, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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DATE OF CONTENT"arch_ to June 1951 _..._
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Betv.een Larch and tpril 1.951, posters of the Sokol sports as,3ociation invited
Czech youth to volunteer for parachute, training.
miilitary training; department of the Sokol Count Office- at 'ra ee y;ralove
(0 51/C 71) . After about one week, Aftor
short interrogations by civilians he was o d ::3 :e parachute trainin r ?
would be conducted from to 9 p,.s . every Tuesday ark Friday a; .he military
,ra:inin grouncs north of i:ovy lirac'ec Kralove (o 51/G 70) ,, east of the hig;1-
ay to iir: dec Tiralove, '111ds troop trainin : ground covers ,an area a-bout 1,000
dieters square.
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27 The training, was supervised by four civilians v h.c had graduated from an
'thatructor- course in i racuo, About 53 youths, i.neiudi n,: 7 ;i;t ls, all frtt.,
17 to 22 ;rears old, participated in the training; course. 'l,.e training prod
gram incl-, :dod close order drill, the thro ing of eg . -si.aped hasid grenades,
and firm- nracticc :sith air rifles. (:.ring the' n.)crachute tra.n.Ln ,tress
Y.,ras laic. on correct landin?Ns by the t. ainecs. T.n late June I91;1, those parti-
t,,ipatini- in :ie tra.inin . wore asseml)loc at a raadee. ihralov' civil airfield,.
Ten trainees node one parachute jurp each from a : akott? tv e pi_ane. i e
instructors said ti)at the trainees were to be eneoi,raged .o join the x .raw
chute troops after completion of their trainin,-.
3,, The civil and military airfie?d, locate( nortt: o_' T:radec fr?al.ow, west or t ,e
fouchov?-Rusek (0 5l/G 71) covered an arc' 1,ar.;O0 x 2,0f 0 meters, A
iangar housin ; civil aircraft and a sin Ele-otory log?,r wooden build .n(g VW0
observed in th_e northern por ion of the field? Three hap(':ars for? mi.litar'r ai r--
craft Banc southw ,t of them three three-s -.ory bat, racks buiidin -;s were va~vl abl e
in the southern portion of the. field. The laxicfin , fielr was level sand hate
a grass cover. oa
It was enerally knovrn in Eras ec Kralove that an unidenti ..ed :oviet, colonel
was stationed at the field. This colonel wore civilian clothes .: waas
about 115 yearn old, 170 :n tall., had bro aln ,rizzled hair and -a round face,
i~'c live(; on Ulice ;cevolucni.ho od'boroveho Irnuti, fomerly :treloc1;a Ulicea )
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* Comtent. P'remilitrlry parachute tra:inin[ by the Sokol sports A.,soc;_a-
tt;i.on was previously reported, the rili tary traininr: {:rourrc1 north of
I:o-vy i'rcc'ec Kraiovc i.,3 probably the ..radec Kralove military post tr?ai~aixi ;
f ,rounds .
.r Cor;] icnt. Vie information on the Tires?c_ec Kralove. airfield. is
used by V-e local ci..r. forcc %cademy., is conifirr:ec.
%~ '? ~Conment. The :rE?scnce in ':irac ec Kralove of a Soviet ,advisor cfi is
'. el ievcd ci?r b1 , was provian31y reported,
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