TELEPHONE SYSTEMS IN SLOVAKIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A032600570001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 14, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

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INI ORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information 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 by law.
SECRET
NOYOOYN
SUBJECT Telephone Systems in.Slovakia
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE &
DATE ACQ.
SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL
14 February 1957
report on telephone communications
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I(Note: Washington distribution indicated by "X"; Field distribution by "#".)
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as it is in the whole Czechoslovakia, It was caused-by overloading due
in winter, Thus it happens that one short circuited line in fact'
eliminates six connections. There is also a great shortage of cables
which is supplemented by hurriedly built overhead wire system, often
done by inexperienced labor and thus resulting in:further number of
simultaneously six connections. Because mart' of the newly laid cables
have faulty insulation frequent short circuits are occurring especially
supplemented by high-frequency systems, ise, that one line can carry
the traffic on the postal lines. The overloaded postal cables are being
No new lines were planned for 1956, nor for the future years to ease up
their own lines,;but are using the postal lines (cables).
Army have their own telephone switchboards they do not, however, have
to establishing of separate telephone exchanges for the KSS,the State
Security and for the Army. Although the KSS, the State Security, and the
lines pat out of order.
cable leads along the state border and in case of a conflict only the
A now cable for Bratislava Brno %" Prague was to be laid in 1956.. but
it probably will be embedded only in 1957. The existing main postal.
2, New postal underground cables were embedded in 1951 and 1955 onl.r
in Eastern Slovakia to serve the telecoinnunication with the USSR.,
The cables lead from the Kosice'Post Office, Rumanova street toward
the USSR,
and into Moravia through Veseli (formerly throughBreclav).
cable issupposed to lead nearby Senica:in the direction to Skalice,
branch line throughZilina and Ostrava could, be used. The pl naed new
3. Postal.Telephone changes and Aplifying Stations: The local and
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out-0
-town switchboards as well As teleprinter is located at the old
Post Office Building, at Bratislava, on Stalin Square,
Since 195I an underground shelter was under construction below the.Post
Office building where a special switchboard is installed for log-distance.
Trnava, below the Commercial School building, This .switchboard is in
communications which connects the switchboards of the KSS9 StB, and the
Army. Another amplifying~andout-of-town switchboards were built in
use as of February 1955, and has 1,000 telephone apparatus, 16 so-called
Trencin - Banska Bystrice.
cable leads to Zilina - Poprad ? gosice, and another one from Trnava
long distance boards -~ each board for six lines. From Trnava the main
Trencin, and Banaka Bystrice.
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Levice and four other larger tdwns ?
In Trencin is the main telephone switchboard of the 2nd Military
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Bratislava; the nearest larger
exchange in Trnava is solely used by the'Army.. It has 100 local
lines, two state postal lines and ten military direct long-
distance lines .to Bratislava, Malacky, Senica,,Tepolcariy, Trencin,
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caused by'turning a handle) which is connec e
and district secretariats. By this system calls can be made
through postal lines .without danger of being overhearddby'the
post office staff*
b) State Securitg .. they also have their own exchange in Bratislava,
Ra canska street in the StBbuildig. The exchange is for local
and out-.of-town calls, The local is automatic for 1,000 lines
switchboard; the out-of-town MB switchboard is connected with an
the regional and district offices of the 3tB< These lines are
also used