ANTI-AIRCRAFT ARTILLERY: RESERVISTS' TRAINING CENTER IN PRAGUE

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CLASSIFICATION r. miwTrti^r~mTAT. 63 1
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO
INFORMATION REPORT.. CD NO.
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT' Antiaircraft Artillery: Reservists' Training
Center in Prague
PLACE
ACQUIRED
25X1
DATE OF
INFO.
DATE DISTR. 8 June 1954
NO. OF PAGES 5
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
B y order of the C:tty M ti.tary (;_+ at i~ra r: (H-e !-stvire -r~in~ voli_talstvl
ahR~ date. 5 December 1952,e8 required to p i-ti nave in a special
AAA trainir.?r, ;program for r-e:ie ? .The classes were held at Pray 15 -
na Krizi l/op. 77 every Wednesda;7 from 14530 to 2 hours,
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2. 11e . instruction was largely devoted to antiaircraft defense. The instructors
stressed that the purpose of the training was to prepare crows for the anti-
aircraft defense of,Pra us and that the participants must therefore beeome
thoroughly - familiar with the operation of the AA guns. For the training period,
three model 88-nm,guns and one model X-iw.gun were employed?
3. The training was divided into three types s theoretical-, pract cc-l, and political,,
The theoretica training included courses on Czech A127 organization and regu-
lations, type of AA guns, firing of guns, ehemios1 warfare and poison gas
(phosgene, - di.phosgene, mustard gas),, and aircraft charecterlsties (descrip-
tions of typed: of aircraft, identifying characteristics, and technical des-
criptions)
b. Practical training included a basic training and tactics review, a yreapons
course (including small arms training) operation of the 88 and 20 mm. AllA guns
(but only using wooden training shells 1, chemical warfare defense, use of
optical and photographic devices, and aircraft identification.
c? Political training invblved mainly readings from articles in the newspapers
or propaganda pamphlets or from victory orders of Stalin during World War II?
25X1 class was inspected four
3,~es sill to e3 ~T i- riming oii'ic ersq, ie enan lonels or colonels,
from the General, &faaff at Pra-RwY who looked in on training ccrirsos and examined
the participants persotaa1ly.
25X1 5. On one occasion, Pri iil haci completed Its antiaircraft defenses
in tho r of 19153, w' z gins having to on cat up at d ~igr,?:wd pointz
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1.3.E
A Gateway #br veh?c1es from the mein mad; tis wins;
smAU or for Pedestria in the left wing
B Gateway for trdLcles from a Sid street
C ,xex i e Oland. lighted by 4 rof?1ectors on 4 mastn t which
are connected with isoLsted w reso Bulbs hang from the w ev
se at to t ht up the grotu X1i if It io dark.
I vent, rowa u i.tb s .l1 veranda
11, Main building Ui L Fe, i t fhf 31) -.by 24 17 6 L .arg , g'r'ound
floor ..and) t floor,, b-rI building with tiled TQ0
former i?estz nt "Na KRI2
Room on the groiMd f9 o4r
tack Liar
2 Lu ieon -Room.
Dark Room
Class Room
5 :lass Room
h Corridor
7 TIC
g Store Room
Corridor
Store Room
TL StajrceSe leadiug to Est .f or
K11 Wooden back O by $ over 6 w, highs Sits on brick-
bonart 31 51) em, hOight
I Br tok Garage for one autaznnbiLe
IF Guard Shack
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1st Floor of Building It
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1st Floor of Building II
1 Class #(ao by 13 mg vontaining a black board g table and
armchair for the int;3tructor, several rows of chairs for the
participants
2 Glass Room' 5 by .t r,, wished as abotre
L-shaped Go eridor, 1.5 m. long and 2.2 m. -tide
Office, 4 by 4 m.. large,furnished erith 2 desks a and b
0ffiee, 4 by 4 m.largey furu.7rshed with 2 desks a and bt
1 filing ca'AhCt Q, I telephone T; at desk a) a wcapn I .
NCO 'uniform Ls 6e2ted1 ral-l.e;ed11y the See,-cetary of the CO
O filer 4 by 4 m,, large, furnished v Lth.i desks t,14and d,
. filing cabinet and telephone T ; at desk ?) the 00 Lt Q/I
is seated
Lavatory
8 FUtraa e from the s tai ifaee leading up f scam the court
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