ARMY REORGANIZATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R016300450002-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 6, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2003/08/13: CIA-RDP82-00457R01 Q300450 4iI2
FORM NO. 51-4AA
FEB 1952
INFORMATION REPORT NO.
COUNTRY
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
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.
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Army Reorganizati
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REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
There will be a complete reorganization of the Czechoslovak Army, beginning
1 January 1953, according to plans drawn up by the Soviet General Staff in
ri":ascow. General Vaclav Thor has not yet returned from there, and there is
the greatest uncertainty, among the officers of Cepi'kata entourage.
The Czech Army will be divided into seven corps; three in Bohemia, two in
Moravia and two in Slovakia. The strength of a division will be fixed at
9,000 men. Units of special arms and motorized units will be organized
separately and their strength will vary according to the mission of the
corps. Armored divisions, heavy artillery and cavalry will form part of
a special army corps and will be attached to other corps for specialized
missions.
The carrying out of this plan will completely alter the structure of the
'Czechoslovak Army, which now has three complete corps and one incomplete
corps with only two divisions, but supplied with organic artillery, armored
units, special arms and cavalry.
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Czechoslovak officers fear that the reform will make their army an army of
infantry and that the armored divisions, artillery and special arms, once
detached, will be sent to Russel-,_ to be trained with Polish and Hungarian units.
The Soviets consider the Czech officer carps as politically unreliable and the,
plan would deprive it of any importance.
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