RUSSIAN TROOPS BETWEEN THE DANUBE ;AND THE TISZA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 2011
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 20, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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SECURIT'YINFORNATJON
INFORMATION RCDR ' REPORT
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COUNTRY
DATE DISTR. 20 October .1952
SUBJECT Ruusi' I. Troops betty the Datube and the 11asa NO: OF PAGES 3.
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE
ACQUIRED
OF .N[ VNIT[0 6TAT96, WITHIN THt MtANIMO OP TITU 16, $ZOTION6 T9)
INC 911, OF TNt 41.6. COOT'. Al ANENDC0. IT$ TRANSMISSION ON REVC.
CATION OF ITS OOM}[NTI TO OR RCOtIPT BY AM ONAUTNORI[[D PER6ON IS
PRONISITIS IV Ar, TN(RCPROQUCTI.QN OP,TNII FORM PS FRONT IT .
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NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
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'atil the end i9~1, the 1 n motel near Xeaskemgt seried as the hersdq rt+:Yrs
for all the d (visat tz oo s in RUngar7v- Since than, ;h .?h; wftuarte hart bebn
v0ved into wade rowed "bu .l.dinga in Lille ed. near i t Laken On the first
bill t;h of the lake, the ssians are, inst"ng a ~-lr powerful rudia
statie n.
Next to the (tote l:o in a
At the p exat the 1 e 'A tel, is serving as headq tears f ( or either an armored
ar' notarized division"
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--AW" Ak%Fa* '.'M V0,142grap J..3.ne ae een Bradapes't and
Neeekem t in operation 3. oonditiOn.
The entire line is buried exospt where it.. m,# on poles near the outskirts
at 3u -pl at to the terminal located in the Pet . Ottiaer Candidate Bad.
at jWa V$j4V. The in alaating mleteriai, f'fr the wires is a vleaz red, "jar*
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usrd dst .s have been left, behind.;
Late .pin the Nec ske t areas the barracks listed below bare been evacuated by
the 'units lire rg ther n ,it
he Arpgd. ut i itentr r barracks. It was 0upied, by a Soviet ar ed
battalion consisting about men with 35 %t-34-85 tanks-, ?
tser battery and ether tracked Yebicl,es
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This battalion left on. 12 June 1952,. at 2140 hours, in the direction of
Saabad4akabsa44A4
b The Frzebet 2.aktanya (farmer Husa&r barracks)-in the Honved utca, It was
occupied, by a mo~Oreycle unit consisting of about 300 men. The group left
12 June iq 52r. at 2100 hours r in the direction of Szabad4akabsfl.lAs.
c The 'P4ncelos Uktsnya barracks, on the road leading to the range, It was
*ccupied by the headquarters -cot, an armored rdkiment. On 14 rune 1952, a
battalion co nsistiaw"ice" 700 men with 32 T-34..85 and 8 StalL_n tEl tanks
left in the direction of izsk. N. 64). As of 16 ,Tune 1952, there still
was in the barracks a 152 mm. howitzer battery? 1 anti?tank group with
76.2 mm guns about 40 Ford and Studebaker type trucks painted an olive
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In the village of" IrAadk (N 64), in the former Youth Home, there is the headquarters
-of a regiment of Soviet.jntantry and also of a battalion. Heavy and medium
mortars have been seen here,, as well as 45 mm.. anti-aircraft guns, dravn by horse t
Small units of this regiment are quartered in Pabi (about 31 km, southwest of
Kecskemet), Orgoviny (N. 73) and Meierhofen One half of an infantry battalion
is stationed in Szaba603iA (N 55) and the-other half in I I.6pazAllts(N 54.).'.TOtel
strength of the battalion is about 700 men
Another Soviet infantry battalion is stationed in part to La smizse (N 86) and
in Kerekegyhdsa (N 75) total strength of the battalion. is about ',00 me no
in the city hOspitalineeir U4-Kecske (about 26 kilometers east of Keeskemdt), the
headquarters of a group of 'Stalin organ's rocket launchers is stationed. Some
units of this headquarters are also located in farmhouses in 0 Xte.ske(about 2.5 km.
east of Uj Keoske) and in Ujbog (about 3 km. north of Uj Keceke). Uhis group
consists of 3 companied~ each company has 9 rocket launchers of the M..13 type,
mounted on trucks with 3 aXles, with a capacity of 5 tans. This group consists
of about 400 ]lien.
Another infantry regiment is stationed in the village of OibakhLza (0 35)j one
battalion is stationed in Tissfaldv r (0 35) one battalion in Ysiaea .nok?*, (0 24)ji
and a third battalion in Nagy Ocsod. The total wtrength of this regiment is
about 2 ,000 men,
An assault grin, group belonging to an armored division is stationed in Nagykkr8a
(0 06), in the new barracks along thq provincial highway between Kecskemet and
Nagyk8rds. This group is equipped with 20 SU?152 and 10 StY-122; and there are
about 500 men.
10. The Tft-tell Street Barracks is at present occupied by the headquarters of a
Soviet artillery regiment and by a group consisting of 3 batteries :each battery
has four 152 mm. grans; Total strength is about 600 men. One group of this
regiment is stationed in the village of Cegledbercel (N 98) aad another in the
village of Jiszka-rejen8 (0 E6). Both of them are equipped with 152.. and 122. mma
guns,
11. Since 10 Jane 1952, there are also Soviet units stationed at the Keeskemet airfield.
These have about 30 Maki planes, 6 searchlights, 1 AA battery with ?oour"8 "age. ?7
guns and twelve 37 mm. automatic weapons, about 60 trucks
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12. In the area between the Danube and the Tisza. ,:& concentration of Pibngarian troops
has only been observed in the Negykdrds camp, where there were 2 artillery
regimented The foal vi i units have arrived at Arppdfalva (6rk4ny)''
an armored regiment from Gy8ngy8s, and a group of assault stuns
from Jdszberdny (J 50X1-HUM
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