LOCATION OF SOVIET AND HUNGARIAN TROOPS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013600020007-6
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 6, 2011
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 17, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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FORM N0. 5!-AAA
FEB 1952
SECRET~COI~ftOL - t7.S~ OFFICIALS ONLY
SECURI`r~' INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
COUNTRY i.: $ungary
SUBJECT Location of Soviet and Hungarian Troops
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE
ACQUIRED
D0 NOT ~I~iCU~,ATE
DF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 1B~ SECTIONS 79j
CATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OP THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
DATE DISTR. 1?7. ~isptem~r 1952
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SUPPLEMENT TO 50X1-HUM
REPORT N0.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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1. Bajae :The confiscated Franciscan monastery is used as a military depot. In
the church there is a supply magazine; ~:n_the former school building., a military
clothing magazine. There are no ;soviet troop; sta~tiolDed i.n~3a.;'j~? or
ri11? e~. Tn tti,~ ~~r,?;~.c~,~^~ r~.t V~skuti ut, there is a -~~~imen~;
in surrounding
This aaa?_? ~..::, ~ N,~> U, , -t~~n~Tec]. ~ n tf~e w~,r, ~~l t renuilt in 1,50. There are two 'br
three f.ielcl ,.-~n.s.; ca;lib.er ~c~7 ;_un., .anc~ :E'C7:iz'I:? to .six ,antitank guns, caliber 76.2 mmg
in the y~.-_~d. There 5 s :-~ l~.r,r~;e en~;inee_r unit, allegedly a whole regiment, with
about 1,60u ra3en, in tie former Fr~~,ncis Joseph barracks. In the Remnnta barracks
is a cavalry company. In the AA barracks is an AA unit. Most of the buildings
are being used as depots; the gun garages are now automi~bile garages, but because
of insufficient doom there, about fifty 5-ton trucks park in the yard. In the
barracks, opposite the Catholic Church, there is a I-Iungarian motorized artillery
unit. The engineer officer school. is in the former barracks of the technical
troops. Selected non-commissioned officers from the troops `are sent there; they
spend six months in the school. There are courses for engineers, miners,
pontooneers, and radio-telegraphists. After six months the best students attain
the rank of sub-lieutenant, the. others that of technical sergeant. The latter
-will be sent to another school after the completion cif this course.
2. Vaskuto There are no Soviet troops here..- This village lies 9 kilometers to the
south-southeast of Baja. There is a motorized security battalion of the AVH in
Vaskut a
3. B~csalm~,sa This village lies 30 kilometers to the southeast of Baja. There are
no Soviet troops here. The command and the clireetly subordinate units oP a
Hungarian AVH ~ronti~,r guard.battalion are here.
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SIvCRE`1'~CUIv~`I.`F~L - L'. ~;. OFF1ClALS 0?VI,
Tierce~sz~,nt~: 24 l~ilo~IC:tors t;o c;..e ~~,~lth of .8a,,ja. No ~ovi~t t??oot~s. ~.:?l~.ere
i s an AV:H f roriti er guard compaz;y a:~~:c F~: .
Cara: :L7 kilometers to the-south or:
frontier guard company.
iV'o Soviet troops, only a.n AVH
6. Y~alocsa: "1'he old infant::ry barracks i.s ,mot. the eastern edge of tYle ci ~,~, on the
second-class highway, Ka.I.ocsa-Kiskt~r~s, rr~,erc an infantry baty.:ali.or, ~r~,,s stationed
before the war. About 150 meters atrr~~,y fro._~ ;?Pre, ;~ new barrack., cora-~~o~;nd is under
construction. In the old. buildings =~, ?~ung~::_~ir,n tank battalion. i.s billeted.. The
n~.rmber of the T-34 tanks is :hi.gh~r tli~::n would be necessary fo.C~ a battalion; it
seems probable, therefore., that after cornpl.et?iox; of t;he new barracks, a whole tank
regiment will be statio:nec:i irl. Kalocsa. ~~rl. the ~~r~a,rket squa~?e of the city a.re about
50 T-34 tanks, covered. wir?h canvas a.na tree b~?