1. BORDER SECURITY AT ROZVADOV 2. SOVIET OFFICERS IN PRAGUE 3. POLITICAL OBSERVATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006700390005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 24, 2008
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: June 20, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT I NFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains informayion 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 be law
COUNTRY Czechoo3lovaki,a
'DATE OF INFO.
DATE ACQUIRED
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 20 att.,t' 1955
NO. OF PAGES 2
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
SOIIRCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
Border Security Measures
la At the Rozvadov (N 49-40,, E 12-33) check point security installations begin
50 motors from the customs shed. At this point there is a wooden watch
towetr on the right side of the road, To the right and left,, running laterally
alorig the borders are "nests"9 apparently one-man
observation posts. The olLowing are expressed in terms of distance from
the customs houses at ,6 kilometers there is a series of roar:1 blocks which
permit only one vehicle at a time to go throughg at 1,1 kilometers there As
a second series at 3 kilameters on entering the village of Fi'*Dzvadov there
is a wooden balance barrier manned by a uniformed guard at 3,,5 kilometers,,
i.n the center of the village,, there is another series of road blocks at
7,4 kilometers there is a fourth set^ie s s at 8 a3 kilometers a fifth series
and at 10,7 kilometers a sixth and final series.
Soviet Officers in Prague
at the Slovensky T eem, a rr.istaurant in 25X1
the vieinity of the Prague town hall
several boys and girls of university age had been having a party amd were
singing what appeared to be Czech folk songs and the atmosphere was very gayA
many of the students were feeling a little high. On the entrance af the
blond mans the doors of the kitchen and to the street were guarded and the man j s 25X1
entrance seemed to cast a cloud over the festivities. After a few minutes
the students left the restaurants
uniform an so me me s i n z e-
of a Czech infantry division
it, is "common knowledge" that another Soviet general lives next
oo This man appears sometimes in ;soviet
xi [ ARMY
AIR X FBI AEC
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REPORT NFORMAT ION REP
to Border Security at Rozvadov
2a Soviet Officers in Prague
3o P':)litical Observations
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Poi itioal Observations
Idany cor..,
p .a- nud that the Iieydr.,nr, as- saina`i.on during, World War
II only resulted in needles `.r>n of Lidice ^? -.,,r.ceeded
only ._ r; replacing Z yErich by another Gestapo agento Lidice has now
become a most effective propaganda i.nst r irnent in the campaign
against Gavman rearrnamento All classes of Czech public;
have a tremendous fear of the monsequerr,( es for then of a rearmed
Gen any,, and Lidice is well exploited as an example of what might well
happen if any German units returned to Czechoslovakia,
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