TROOPS AT SZEKESFEHERVAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R016300320007-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 23, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: February 6, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

FEB 1952 ai 4AA
COUNTRY ?:ary
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
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SUBJECT Troops at SzOesfehdfrvir
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There is a -Ras-sian division c? mend. in- the market place, in a -three. atoried
b !i Ld3.n$ which was completed in 1938. it is about 100 meters from the Rugarian
c.:: ps c:; q; arters. The builuj.ng is about 98 meters 1g.
2. A Russiom &mored regiment is in-the former cavalry barracks at the corner
if Le 5tree: v;: yd the "Street of the Red Army." I The number of tanks is
3. The Hotel. d has been taken. over as a Russian officers' quarters. It has
abut 100 rooms. Many of the officers of the division compand live at this
place.
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The Hungarian e )r?ps cow is in Zichy Park. The building it occupies has three
toes and about 85-meters long.
Two $ungarian infantry battalions are in the infantry barracks at the corxiei' Of
the Varkkrat and the Street of the Red Army. The-building was-formerly a school
for young girls and a cloister of English nuns o The complex .consists of two
three-storied buildings., with 100 meters frontage,,on the street. At the most
each could hold 450 men* -
6. -There is a IHungg ?tan motorized battaa.ion in the barracks at the corner of
loo and S Streets. This barracks consists of a single building, which
could hold. 600 men if necessary.
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7. There.is a Hungarian infantry battalion in the infantry barracks in the Street
of the Red dry (formerly, known as 69th Infantry laarraeks The wracks
consist of one command building, four Wi .dings for enliste M n and four
Other bu ilrings. Its capacity-is a complete infantry battalion.
8. unications battalion is in the corm nications barracks at the
corner of Zculde Street and the Street of the Red
Arm,~. It is a low, old-fashioned
complex of two buildings with a capacity of 500 to 550 men.
9? A H r' l.e;?k AA unit is stationed in the artillery barracks on Mdri Street
in. Ki,skecskent. The barracks can take a complete artillery unit, and was
occmpied by Russia ?s until the spring of 1952.
1,01 . An A"VR battalion is in the Szah6 palace at the corner of the Street of the
Red Ax-my and the De k"Perene Street. The building is a reconstructed four
storied private htse qnd, the numaer ref men in it is around 300.
11. AVH troops of a noar n strength are in the former gendarmery barracks in
Zie
Park.
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nand is In the former gendarme-7,; barracks in Nagy Sdndor
e is a
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?Te to>:.ay hospi
with few patients, in the Street of the Red
'4. The 2 R'a a?.?i n Food. .,ge.c:tne is at tthel''
,C . corner of H
f th< unyadi Street and ?t ,e Street
w e . Arm.., It, crresists Of a headL rte ?s bolding, 20 a seorehouses and
. -'* n a,r +, hatiaw ~c:? c: a Ea t.CaY uy Cc.16A men.
me r a i. AA Barre, ks a formerly knc . as "'Sanatorium" barracks, is now empty.
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