CZECHOSLOVAK ARMED FORCES; ORGANIZATION AND MISSIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R016300330004-5
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2003
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 6, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
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DATE DISTR. 6 February 1953
SUBJECT Czechoslovak Armed Forces: Organization and Missions NO. OF PAGES 2
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S DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 795
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 poRm is PROHIBITED.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
25X1 eAkse of war, the Czechoolcrvelr Aruted -lames would be divided. ixrbo two parts:
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a. T'wo.-thir*s-ct th'-timaseirtire Osenhosiovek Air Force, would be used, to
defend the-tortitield line alms the West Gem= frontAer, ' and. to "cover"
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Schelde and ttoraviir. Their- headirtax*s- will be in Brno.
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*The ranortemt -third. -of time- enschosrlov eeLll, campy positions in
the movortartas on the torder.of Ideraria-,-witirtheir-haedirxerters in Treed&
Their surintimkk will-be to -cover 'the -arrival of Soviet Forces in Slovakti
end ae'berv vngey.' Air support for these proiirided by the Soviet
Air terse-.
TSo Lives of fortiticabione are betar
slaw this West Gyre= frontierin the efes* Les-ftsuera area.
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mother along the ell Ur/Arty range,, west of Moravski Ostrava, then joining
the Polish border. the iCladno region.
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Antlairaft defense riority is as folios's: first Brad; second, Ostrava;
third, Pragyte3 fourth, Plzen r(Pilsen).
The *hief mission of both groups is to hold the enemy until the Soviet troops
arrive. The Soviet troops concentration zones area Kralc5w, Kogiceland east of
Budapest; fhe Soviet Comkand will be in the Bratislava region.*,
The main group will couperate on the right flank with the southern group of the
Soviet Arlay- in East Germany, and. with the southern group of the Polish Army in, the
Sudeten range. On its left ,flank it will cooperate with the Soviet Army in
Austria.s, and with group B of the CzephOsa.ovak Army established. on the Dili
Xarpoty. ,
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6. The present composition of -the Czechoslovak Army is:
a. Fourteen infantry Aivisions, most of them'snotoriZed with one or two tank
battalions eacli. (sic).
b. Frontier Guards eight motorized. battalions (each consisting of five companies,
totalling 1,200 men per- battalion).
C. Five regiments of =di= T-34 tans.
d,. Six light- armored. gratms (may be brigades).
e. Three medium. AA regiments-.
f. Air Force s 22 air squadrons r.:rf first line (fifteen medium and. light bombers,
and aeven fighter squadrons); four jet figuter squadrons equipped with MIG
wed. in Czechoslovakia.
7. In co*aection with this plan the Czech Cartographic Institute has b? moved. from
Frague toBansk? Bystrica.
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