SOVIET TROOPS IN KOERMEND AND SZOMBATHELY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011200120004-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 20, 2002
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 25, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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Koerraanda
'rand 3 J anuar.T 1.952,. the P.attlAra d Gn. tler in Koerryand (' 4(8,/ 76) vlas occupied
by Soviet troops who wore red-.bordered black epaulets? From 30 to 10 ,rnac e.s on
blocks and Te; to 20 cani.as-doovereci armored vehd_c:Less were seen in the park of the
castle
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s ooccunied by soldiers Wearing ron-DorcT:rk>, ac1c
2, Soviet officers- '~~'zc: Korona hotel n 1omttJCst of ~u~ h' Ga" c?,lc.~ !17ey
~ were billeted in ~;.rJr. "t ze ~,
core golden c3nd silver apaulets,a Local rocidents said ,, t a :i?viot counter
intelligence office vv,:as located in the former inn on 6'asut Street, -ac--~
3. iunero is off- cers, inclixa.in field grade cfy::..cers, were seen in Vie foraacr district
court building., a three-story corner build in..,, south of the P ttyanyi castle z.
1 On 2 and 3 Januvary some L.oviet soldiar o ,`iere ab'3erved in the fort er Infantry
Barracks on the worst side of the road to -zombathely, ,aunt so-,,it th of the point where
the road Taros .od t l.xe railroad line,, Tho installation had been restored; .all. debris
had been cleared aeayp Local residents said t':,-#t the former Border Guard Barracks
on Vasiat street, was also occupied by bov:iot troops.,
11'~ s ria~.?'7~ s j e and d
~? On 4 January, about 40 -~~7Vie'G soldiers 4"~:i._'t.ti ,y. 'C'2.?t~'ae g ~,Zl?1ay rifles tl'?.> ~1Car-Ua'~':i
of about 80 mm were seen practicing in the, v cinity of Koermorad,; Two 76,,2-om AT guts
were olzerved on the market square on 8a J : nary. The total number c); troops at the
post in early .Tanucry 19:52 was estis,~.ted at v} arils of 1,000 men.,
~7 y The following trucks were seen in t ho streets of Koer:-,mond between 26 Dece:ii er 1951
and 5 J anu~ary 19!2
Service color c:' driver
bl&ch e:aaulet,~~_, _,~.
red-bordered black.
c~Tau ets
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Location
Driving to-.-jard Szombathely
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service r oior of driver :r Location
c: j)iets with tank
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rod.,,:t rdere t black In front Of tho railroad
pau~1ot ntz ion
red bordered. black,
epal letas
red-borderefi black At the for':%or district
e'raauleto with tank
Coning; from a southessterl-y direction
trucks, nuxaero-w; smaller m tor vehicles en_ 24, canvas- cove r?ed
artil' er?y pieces with ear-sra 1,~e r -0z'ie br ices were s L1n in the New
Gencf'.&rrerie P.!Erraclcs,, Szonba thely, in furly J nu my -L95-2, `soviet trucko were
parked on Lhc premises of the fcw.ner voc~tic? a school and i,he L'ILV atl:~l-1tic
field on the west s:i.ae c f iiohonct atr?e,. t,, A high board fence blocked a vicar
of the parkins; lot from the atreot4, "i ;hiee.n large tents containing tanks
Tfore s3cn on the aforenient;!orue(i prer:L.sc.o from a nea3^bW apnrtierut, houso.;. There
ere also other ten,.is , `o,-
- Ca:7rrr3erltr, ''I7 e Koron hotel and the fo
law:,
vacartia "late as, the end of. )c uoher l9~,lv
Con, ent? TI w- ;zambathely military, no tt,
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Soviet tiuii = d ,;rotor ed units
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