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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500780311-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Sequence Number: 311
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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1. There is a Hungarian replacement c=and in the building of the
Herrenkasino at Teleki Gasse 20.
2. In the tower of the old Reformed Protestant Church there is an air
observation station with six military personnel on duty. The station is under
the Kerlekoz Central at Kiskunhalas..
3. The armored barracice on T:'_teli. Street was built and occupied in 1950.
It has a capacity of 2,000 and is new occupied by an armored regiment. The regiment
consists of regimental troops and two battalions. Strength 900 to 960 men, with
55 to 60 T-34 tanks.. The men have blue shoulder boards. The auto park consists of
three tank cars, 7 radio cars, i ambulance, 7 tank recovery vehicles, 10 to 12
jeeps, 12 to 15 Csepel motorcycles withcat eidec:ars, 7 motorcycles with sidecars,
5 Tatra personnel carriers, 17 to 1.9 tr--jcks, mostly Csepel Diesels.
4. Active soldiers are trained in the regiment under the leadership of
Soviet technical officers. Instruction is basic and very hard. The soldiers are
required to start motors and load guns while blindfolded. The regiment rarely trains
with heavy equipment. Mostly they march out cn foot and undertake infantry exercises.
5.. At the end of April 1.953, the regiment marched out to undertake battle
exercises along the Cegldd-Abonv road. It was divided into small units practicing
attack on hostile parachutists who were supposed to have landed in the area. All
equipment was heavily camouflaged. In May the regiment proceeded to field exercises,
leaving the staff behlmi.. New recruits wore c-r?ought in to bring the regiment up to
war strength.
6. Four private ho,._._s were taken over by the Hungarian Army on RdIt6czi and
Teleki. Streets. They have been occupied by a motorized communications battalion, which
has erected six-meter high antennae on the roofs. Radio cars have been observed in
the courtyard of the building at Teleki Street 24. The unit is engaged in training,
and rooms in the houses have been made into schoolrooms.
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