MILITARY UNITS IN CESKE KRUMLOV AND AT KDYNE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010500030007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 1, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 10, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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DATE OF CONTENT ._,a~ri.or to 12 7ovo.tbe r 1q1
DATE PREPARED
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::ore Cz.'~hs. ; ach platoon was equipped with one lonz-barreled 76-r gun
iri.th raa,1c brake The billeting area, so-te hundred meters outside the
torn., .onsisted of a barra&i surrounded by barbed wire and a board fenced
AccorcU.n , to instructors, basic training was to last one month, whereupon
qual.Lf:'.ed soldiers would be detached to an 120 school in Ceske Krunlov and
other aidi.ers to signal comriuncations and motor transport courses in
Ceske i a do jovice (0 49/Q 96). Nine 76-mu guns, 12 Bedford trucks, 3 Fra ;a-
RN true;::.,, 2 $koda trucks, 1 jeep and 1 motorcycle were seen in the garages
of the init?
?tr:+ Or ,s rized into three Diatoons, each of about 30 :en most of ':horn
Prior to 12 :~oiTOmber 1951, an AT artil1er4- battalion was stationed in
Ces'se lirur) ov (! 9/ %~ 8)4) and, according; to one of its officers, was
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20 in adcti;ion to the AT artiller amen, numerous infantrymen with black-bordered
red e; a acts were seen in the barracks installation. total of PLO to 50
Pra ;aMP. trucks were :oarl:cd in two open shedso Each had a round aperture
large: e)ough f o:s one ran in the roof of the driver! s cabin
3m :;even t.aks were noticed through the nnml door in another ;arage, with other
tanks s : nding in thoTMback ground. believed the tanks to be T-3)4s 25X1
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q ar o r_ a ~arrac , ir~;,t,al_latzan. v aj.ch consisted of 12 to x wooden barracks
buildings ..nd I brick buil.:ing and was located northe aut of Kd m (U 50/P 80)
The uni`, Th_c.ch had an estimated strength of 250 :yen, was organized into five
co :por cato, aoldiors marching out were arced with submachine guns. ' aining
was c:r~duci3d in the wooded area cast of Kdynefl Six mortars of more than 100 rare
and s^verr soldiers with two trucks were seen in this area about October 1951?
s; out 15 r Ober 1951, two soldiers 'wearing red-bordered black epaulets were
seen to th vooden elevated area about 2 k}.t east of Kd~a e0 An acquaintance of
sourc,; sai( teat he had soon three tanks in this arPn i n ?Inz, 10),0 .,,,,1 ~, ~~ ..
4a Prior to ;he fall of 1951, a unit of an undeterrai.n branch of service was
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fall of 1951 It was ruiaored a,rtonf* local residents that soldiers
with tanks were quartered the,?e, * *
*~0~'7, ?tent< The 'aq lst Inf Div is corr. icd in Ceske 13ude;jovicer, It
is not known whether this is the Zizkov Division `im1i.'Loned in the pre-
sent .report, iLccordinC; to previous reports,, the 255th Mtz AT Arty .Ba
of t~a.e 1st Inf Div was stationed in Tyn sad Vltavous and one battalion
a.f the 1_st Inf J of t in Ceske Krug lov, The present report indicateE,
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't uatorized or mechanized units are now stationed in Ceske Krumilovm
Kd;'ne is located in the biilotin area of the llth Inf
.Iv It is ,ac>ssi'ale that the unit mentioned in the present report is a
battalion of the 35th Inf F..e7tc A report of January 1950 indicated that
one battalion of this r o i?::cnt would ~T1c-re f_rrr:i l)orlaglicc to Kdyne, sec
3c'^'?~ e:'vrttc. she _ information contained in ~ara`'T'3, h'1 9 of the annex
eon jrr too nrev-Lor3s Rs ,,_z1;1tion that the i_nductjoi in the fall of 1951
affected tho last conti;i ;ants of the 1930 clasp, and thus iraplenentod the
reduction of the draft a ,-o fro,,.,, 22 to 21 yearns as stipulated in the
Jnivero al "31itar.r .service La *;j of 23 '.,arch l ;? d9 a
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