INFANTRY UNIT IN MIKULOV

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R016100100008-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 24, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: December 17, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

CLASS! FRCATION_e C0NIFIUL,'1TTAL1
COUNTRY. CzechefJ~dv+ak Vwr Release 2002/08/14: CIA-RDP82-
TOPIC Infantry Unit in Mikulov
PLACE OBTAINED)
DATE OF CONTENT _ nrtor to 1 April 1952
DATE OBTAINED,
REFERENCES 25X1 A
PAGES- Y ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE)
1. Prior to 1 April 1952, an infantry battalion of about 5tc mean with black-
bordered red epaulets was quartered in the Jana Zizka Barracks at the
northeastern edge of 1Itkulov (Nikoleburg, P 49/S 56) on the southeast side
of the read to Klentnice (P 49/S 56). The barracks installation had a wire
mesh fence, 2 meters high, and consisted of about 10 flat brick buildings;
2 stables, about 50 meters long; 1 forge shop; and 1 gun shed, about 30
meters long, with !t large gates. The commanding officer was a major. Sentries
and departing detachments were armed with pistols or rifles. The total number
of horses was estimated at about 10C, including 25 borrowed by state owned
farms. Two types of giins were repeatedly seen. One type had two rubber tired
disk wheels of about 75 cm in diameter and a small tail wheel. The gun barrel
projected about 150 cm from the slanting low shield. The caliber was aba-t
70-mm. It had no muzzle brake and no visible gun cradle. The length of the gun
was about 4 meters and its height was abotft 130 cm. It was drawn by two horses
which were led by hand, with a pole attached to the tail wheels The other
type had a box-trail gun carriage about 220-cm long, disk wheels with solid
tires of about 120 cm in diameter, a barrel, about 2 motors long with an
estimated caliber or more than 100-mm, a cradle which nearly extended to the
muzzle and no muzzle brake, and a shield which projected about 20 cm above
the barrel. The total length was about 5 meters and its hei0it about 180 cm.
It was drawn by 4 horses. Source saw six guns each of both types.
2. An infantry battalion of about 500 men wearing black-bordered red epaulets
was quartered in @ barracks installation about 150 meters southeast of the
Zizka Barracks, on, the northeide of an east-west street. Source saw two
three-story buildings, about 6o meters long, which were separated from the
street by a wire mesh fence, about 2 meters high. He noticed numerous trucks
enter -ng and leaving the barracks installation th ich the population referred
to as the "Motorized Barracks."1
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3.. The SNB district office was at the northeast edge of the tasaryk Square.
I IComment. According to information of October 1950, the 10th Tnf Regt
is carried in Mkulov where all its components were to be transferred. The guns
seen are probably light and heavy infantry guns which possibly belong to the
regimental units of the 10th Inf Refit. It is noteworthy that one of the "o.ttalions
observed appears to be motorized, while the infantry guns were still horse-drawn.
CLASSIFICATION rrasPTrrrrrve r.
Approved For Release 2002/08/14: CIA-RDP82-00457RO16100100008-8
DATE PREPARED_.,, 17 December 1952