KOSICE - TOWN DESCRIPTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600040091-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 20, 2011
• Sequence Number: 91
• Publication Date: May 15, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CIASSIFICATION_ C'JNa-IDtl4lyP
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
fN~UR611iATION R~PClRT
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT Kosice ?25X1` ~acription
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE
ACQUIRED
DiATS OF
- '1911? 1.1 ?'19?. It Y...1.1 t1..,
REPORT NO.
~D No.
DATE DISTR. ~n~y 1953
ND. OF PAGES 3
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
the following inahallatibtrs
f Kosice:
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1. Poet Office, Telephone and Telegraph - ~'ee fZaors, br:ek eeaatructl,oa.
2. Police Station -Three floors -brick aoastruction.
3? Rilitary 'barracks for infantry and ca
troops are eua~?tnrnri ~~,.e wry' ~~ or five hundred
b. 1[otor vehicle repair shop. Thin is an old brick building. A large number
of opare parts for motor n,ji:lee are stored here.
5? Gypsy q?,~~.? More ~~ two hundred gypsies live here. This ie one of the
beat aideouta in-town, pithout the aid of the gypsies it could be difficult
+.o find a person is this quarter,
6. Town's largest brewery.
7. City $elZ sad provincial offices.
8. Technical School. Chiefly teaches mach
attend it. ~~'Y? About three hundred students
9? Mwtiyor's office.
10. Saall hydroelectric power pmt,
'll. lfagneaite siateris~ plat. It consists of one large brick building of three
~floora sad a_ amal,ler bbe floor' brick buiLtliag. The ~ ore is sines abort th,.?e
-v~'a ~iaaportad horiedrawa wagsna to
1 the sin ~`'~' ~.~ "'._
~n6 Dlaa't. . Yt My oraad by a?tia~aa' ti=n E) ? Ito plant ea4ploy*a
?bout 150 L+aroons. It is locatir! ad~,aeat to 'the rails9oad bridge onr the
~~ irivsr.
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St. Elizabeth's Roman Catholic Church, It is located in the geographic
center of the town.
13.
Roman Catholic Church,
14.
Lutheran Church.
15.
Hotel Schalkaz (Hungnriea name). Three floors, about 8o rooms. Brick
construction.
16.
Hotel Euro,e, Four floors, about two hundred rooms. This is the largest
hotel is town (in 1944). Brick construction.
17?
Hotel imperial. Three floors, brick construction.
18.
Greek Orthodox Ct.urch.
19- R
oman Catholic Church,
20. R
oman Catholic Church.
21. L
arge restaurant. Two F~~ors, brick construction.
22. L
t
arge sypartment building, Six floors. This is the tallt:et building in
own (in 1944)
Bri
k
.
o
construotion.
23?
Three brlek factorise. They ore located about 1/2 to one kilometer west of
the gypsy quarter.
24.
National 2'heatre.
25.
8ma11 public Dark.
Q6.
~'i~ thsrmal alsotrio Dowr?plsmt Gad taxa's~xatex ~s'1u. This tr7.ectsioal
power plant supplies mo
t
s
o! the toron and a small rural area around the
tsn-n.
27.
!'lour mill.
28.
Public svimmting p~l-
29.
Railroad station used by passenger and freight train.
30.
Railroad roundhQ~se. It accommodates (194l:j r~baut 15 engines
located
It i
b
.
a
s
out 1~2 kilometer east of No. 26.
31. Warehouses.
32? Fire station.
33? Ai.~ort. It is located about tiro kilometers south of the fire s+.ation.
1944 it had one small concrete strip and the largest Plans
- xsia a small tro-motor plane.
3~+. Ceaetery. It is located acri+es th$ rra.: ~, tae airport.
35- Patblic m~'keti glace.
'?' +n }ictur~g theatre. - .
37- (ins factory and large gas tank.
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38. Court buildings, go},h tnvn sad provincial courts,
39 y" Large hospital ~ith'ebout tvo thoue[snd beds. Yt is located about one
_ kilometer north of the cemetery.,
~? Orphan home.
41.~ Public Bark.
4P. Narehouse. .
~3 ? 8xl.tching eta'tione.
44. Bank.
~5, ~.
~. Streetcar torlainal ,sheds.
~?? Varsanc street -houses of prostitution,
~ : Public HeW.th, llepartment building,
49. Jail. ... .
50. Agricultural Sduarcti Irutitti~e located about three kilometers north of
tova. Rssesrch is restrioted to plant life.
51. F[silroed briQae ode~x 8ornad Rivsr -double trsak. Railroad ~'ou~out
tots 1~ doubi~ trsoY.
5~. 6treet,.briQ~e orer 8arcrd Aiwr,
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