RENOVATION AND CAMOUFLAGE OF BUNKERS IN THE AREA OF STRIBRO

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 20, 2007
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• Publication Date: February 22, 1956
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFO 'ATION REPORT INFORMATION 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. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
NOFORN
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT Renovation and Camouflage of
Bunkers in the Area of Stribro
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1. All the bunkers in the Stribro (N 49-45, E 13-00) area were constructed bfore
the Second World War. From 1938 until sometime after 1948 the bunkers wee
not in use nor were they maintained0 two companies of the
5th Technical Battalion (TP) having about 300 men, was brought to the area in
January 1953 with the task of camouflaging the bunkers. The bunkPrs by then
were already renovated and in combat readiness.
2. The work on camouflage was directed by a group of ,abtout 20 engineers under the
command of 1st Lt. Brom (fnu), who was reporte4y/eUr killed ,by an eXplosion.
In the-course of this work an underground tunnel was built to each bunker; the
tunnel was covered with wooden logs and a layer of earth; then each bunker was
neatly covered with earth and the earth was covered by plants in such a way as
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were left uncovered, but these were concealed by shrubbery
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SHEET 4050/3E
4150/1E
AMS M 872
EIRST EDITION
SCALE 125.000
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Concrete walls of the iminker, about 60 cm Wok; the front wall is
about 1 meter longer and about 80 cm thick. The concrete floor is
about 40 ? er than the surroiindinz terrain.
Embrasures for heavy whine guns in the side vans; square, gradoally
flaring outward, oul4de opening about 60 x 60 cm. 01) the inside they
are closed by An armored plate .with fastenings for heavy machine guns,
* l'risooPes placed adjacent to the embras9res. The upper openings for
2ersioopes are covered with protective caps; the optical parts were
stored inside the bunker.
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Ppening f grenades. On the left side cr the entrance,when looking
from ins100 oC the bunkeabout 160 on a'?ove the floor led an S
channel approf. 12 ctp, in diameter downward outside. The outside 12e?
fling was about 1 25 cm above the terrain. Ar armored plate c'n,e.led
the channel from the inside.
5. Entrance, ahorit 0 x 120 Ci 1 r e. It in closed by iron gr;te and a
padloc1-.
Cuter cha,erj aboA 120 90 cm large. An embrasrta 'sale to it from
the inner chal,'oer al-cnt 150 cm above the floor.
:!ntrance to the inner chamber; armored door about 120 x 60 cm largo.
In action it can be closed and opened only from the inside of the bunker.
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Emhrasure, square'Phapa 0 x qC cm lrge, lead from the inside of.
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the ' bun k e r into..the putev,chamter. It is closer from the-insidelV
11,armored platel t464' 4eure is meant to be Used onlybyviii*kl,
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9 Layer.etearth concealimg the htniter from all the sides and Planted by
shrubs andrnlantsso,-Os to'form,'a4uniformed entity with its surooun6ings,
Only the side embrasOes and openings 'for periscopes are left free, but
covered by shrubbery-Which:would be r' case cf need cut down,
10 Underground tunnel usually about 5 metres long: accorling to the
terrain. About 140 m jeoP with .moderately inwlined wails and about
OP cm wide base. The walleare'''strengtbened'by woOdel logs.
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1L, loaf for the tunnel; wooden lorfs covered by earth; the lc.)gs are about 15 cm
in diameter.
.:Entrance to the tunnel about 2 m deep.
Layer of earth' on the top-of the tunnel roof.
Legend-for th6- skttch.B:'
1. Punker masked as the weighing etationj the entrance is from the east..
At'Out 5 bunker's 150_200 meters apart; entrance tunnels fri-,0 the sout -east.
2 3 bunkers 440.1.4110 meters above the level of the river; _entrances
from the south farther to theeee4 north-east a row of bunkers
irregularly :situated on either :side Of the rive. continues,
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..'EuTikerHof 4, larger type; acrtording to .hearsay, there are .tore bunkers
in a southerly direction on the edge of the forest: "TIEFliARTEN".
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