POSSIBLE INCORPORATION OF SOVIET TROOPS IN HUNGARY AND RUMANIA INTO THE CARPATHIAN MILITARY DISTRICT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80S01540R006700350001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 13, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 4, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFOkMATION REPORT IN.FORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
.18, U.S.C. Sees. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
SRS
COUNTRY
SUBJECT
USSR/Hungary/Rumania/Austria
Possible Incorporation of Soviet
Troops in Hungary and Rumania into
the Carpathian Military District
DATE OF INFO. June or Early July 1955
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 4.. August 1955
NO. OF PAGES
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
SOURCE: Usually reliable source
6; Para 3; 3.
ary. Appraisal of Content: Para 1-2:
CS PD No. 175
1. Col. General Pavel Ivanovich Batov, Commander of the Carpathian Military District,
headed a staff group of 100 senior officers and generals which conducted a
survey of Hungarian "Districts" for military purposes. This survey consisted
of studies of the area and of transportation systems. The following are among
those officers who participated in the survey: Col. General Filip~Ivanovich
Go.likov, Commander of the Soviet Army units in Rumania;. a representative of
the Commanding General of the Soviet Central Group of Forces in-Austria; the
Commander of a Soviet Air Army; representatives of Soviet troop formations in
Hungary;;: and an unidentified Hungarian general.
2. Some members of the group were billeted in a school located in a town west,
of Budapest because all of the hotels in the town were filled. So"rce did not
remember the name of the town, but it began with the letter 'D*t..
3. There was a rumor that Soviet troops in Hungary and Rumania will be
subordinate to the command of the Carpathian Military District and that troops
which are withdrawn from Austria to Hungary after the dissolution-of the Central
Group of Forces there, will also be subordinate to the Carpathian Military
District.
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1. Available information indicates that Pavel Ivanovich Batov was promoted to
General rank in March 1955,
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