MISCELLANEOUS AIR FORCE INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000400300010-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 1, 2009
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: February 1, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
CONFIDENTIAL
SUBJECT Miscellaneous Air Force Information
This material contains Information effecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
Ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.B.C. Secs. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
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DATE DISTR. 1 February 1955
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COI 'TDENT]AL REPORT
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUB7ECT Miscellaneous Air Force Information
DATE OF INFORMATION
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glider pilots to cross any Satellite border,which was Janu
zechoslovak military aircraft are
no perm e o cross a orders and fly over any Satellite
territory nor land at any airfield unless they have special per-
miss3,on to do so. Aircraft of any other h we'Ver can
fly over or even land in Czechoslovak a
mign ave come n o e ec at the same time as the rule forbidding
elan pilots had it easy because
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when y- crosse n o CSR territory and were chased by a Czecho-
slovak jet, they just flew across to Poland where the Czechoslovak
jet could not pursue them.
visibility was almost zero, ten Hungarian MIG-15's landed at
a Prague airport (Kbely or Avia). The planes landed in groups
of three; the group commander, a lieutenant colonel in the
Hungarian Air Force, landed last.
a Soviet w n- ur oaet few over Czechoslovak territory on the
15th of every month, coming from the direction of East Germany
and passing over Decin--and Prague. The Czechoslovak jets tried
to intercept the plane but when they d ew close to it Soviet
plane would disappear at high speed, many
people watching this demonstrationthougnt that-the Soviet plane
was a US aircraft and that the Czechoslovak planes were trying to
shoot it down. Actually, this was being done for
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At the time of the Berlin riots, in June 1953, approximately 60
Hungarian MIG-15's arrived in Prerov. (Czechoslovak pilots
considered Hungarian pilots very good and admired their skill
on this occasion.) Also at this time staff officers of the
Hungarian Air Force passed through the Prerov railroad station,
which was closed to the public at the time when the express train
was due to pass through.
Czechoslovak pilot flying a MIG-15 shot down a Polish MIG-15
thinking it was a US aircraft; the pilot, however, parachuted
to safety. The excuse given was that the cockpit of the
Czechoslovak plane was no t kata, and therefore steamed u
and decreased visibility.
In November or December of 1953 there was only
one Czechoslovak jet plane equi that this
plane was moved from airfield to airfield.
it was common knowledge in Czechoslovakia
that US planes flew over CSR territory daily; they came from
West Germany and flew in the direction of Poland.
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persons who would be prosecuted by a military court in the event
that the applicant defected to the West. The applicant's children
were permitted to sign the affidavit and if they were too Youna
to write, their mother was allowed to sign for them.
every man who wanted to become a pilot in
Czechoslovakia had to have an affidavit (reverz) signed by four
9. Since the escape of a commercial aircraft piloted by a Capt.
Slovaks l military pilots have been instructed to shoot down any
plane trying to escape to the West. They have been ordered not
to aim at the fuselage but at the left wing close to the fuselage.
10. Czechoslovakia was divided into quadrants for the purpose of
military aircraft spotting. Individual spotting units manned
by military personnel were responsible for each quadrant. They
reported every plane spotted in their quadrant to the spotting
units of the quadrant toward which the plane was flying.
11. The personal plane of the Minister of National Defense, General
Dr. Alexej Cepicka, was a DC-4. When the minister arrived in
Prerov by plane an armored car from Prague usually picked him
up. The armored car looked like an oversized Skoda sedan and
had . heavy-duty tires.
12. Minister Cepicka came to Prerov about once each month. =
the first time that Cepicka came to Prerov was on the
occasion of a jet plane crash some time in October 1952.
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Comment:
probably referring to the so-called
ree om Plane which landed at Rnei.n Main airport
in Frankfurt on 23 March 1953 and was piloted by
Lieutenant Miroslav Slovak, f? t,ght captairn.
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