SOVIET TROOPS IN SZOMBATHELY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R014600110002-0
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 3, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION 8RCM/C0MS0L--U.S. OFFICLUS ONLY
SECURITY INFORMATION,
COUNTRY awry
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
CD NO.
25X1 SUBJECT Soviet 1 in Sz
bathely
DATE DISTR. 3 November 1952
NO. OF PAGES 3
NO, OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS T93
AND 794, OF THE U. S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1 -There are ao large Soviet ;nits in the taw* of 'B'zi abatbe1y at the present time.
The withdrawal of Soviet troops begaa at' the end of April 1952. Troops leaving
the-city by train went in the direction of Ha,aeker, and Soviet soldiers t61d their
B aria* acquaiztanoes that they were going to Hajaaskir for maneuvers. Most ,
of the troops sad material were moved by' train.
2. Jenagxt of the tr^an~ sport was done by a Soviet military ' railwway unit ' at the
railway _ citation . Since the detarture of ' tbas troops this unit has beta eves more
overloaded with work than beforre o . arian station. master suffers a
great decal from the hitf. as ry of the Seaxiet transport officers. With the
irregularly chsallp d. and maaa dt ,ssis* military transport, it is impossible
to ' rux the Hia Brian civilians transport according to ichedu Trains are
regularly' late, and because of this the Miagariaa service people, are frequently
hauled up for quueestionimg by the n
Information indicated that the
departed troops are 'still provisioned and fueled
from Szonbathsly. Two or three Soviet supply trains are dispatched weekly
from the so-called 1?lex magazine. The gasoline" is in 200 liter drums cad not
in task cars. Xmerou1s fuel transports leave Ssq athely weekly, to the east r
The hex magazine has long beeu a Soviet ratios. depot where large qua*tities of
food ' are stored. The' departing troops took the mater part of the stores with
then.,, since tben nee deliveries have arrived from the interior. The troops left
behind are also provisioned from this ;d t.
Small guArd units have beta left behind it ' al ll places occupied by Soviet troops N
to forcer years the Russians asseabled their guard Units in small barracks;
this suer they have doaaa differently.
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s4i civili.a mm The employees of the . said the MVD e a a quartered
here, Ox the, bad of the Pere.*t. AP to 100-500 a asia*o are estimated to be
qln 're8 it Ftrlx .Bo evard.o
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m in ix the city Their x,4 torized pa dtaolas go about dairy *ad i;igh ,, a l hor t
th do not have much, to do *o a
Troop ov aat throes a the city towards AAstria. a very =all, it Preasext
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road*. The M wad the Lw ?s f om Szombathely go oily ada far ?to r i Austria
as jeasr'sdo ?
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to report, the. troops ajz sj p2 ,ed d r't> 1, '*w=* ~a n u ai~an f a tle Main.
H ur arii+ar a Litt ;pa Vi at Devedsair. _No a trucks trans sort ti is tzl.tio*'
vee teas seen is Sv bathe.ly for * zOs ha .
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