AIRFIELD AND PROVING GROUND AT CSORNA PUSZTA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000200040080-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 4, 2011
• Sequence Number: 80
• Publication Date: May 3, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY }Iunga 'y
SUBJECT Airfield and Proving around
at Csorna Pussta
NO. OF PAGES E
DATE DISTR. 3nli y 1954
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OF TNt UNITED STATES. .I THIN THE M[ANIN. OF TITLE IS. SECTIONS TS
THIS Is UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
SUPP. TO
REPORT NO.
1, A Soviet enargenoy airfield and exercise area are north of the second-
clean road Laloosa-[iskZros, and west of the railroad line to [ecel. West
of the field runs the Toros Canal.
2. The area has several repair shops and offices; a staff building, with an
observation tower and offices; a weapons laboratory; an artillery garage;
numrous quarters buildings; an underground banitions depot; concreted gun
positions.
3. Various experinants are carried on at the encaapant under Soviet Leadership.
The coa^and of the enoaslpnent as well as the researches, are in the hands of
the Hungarian War Technical Institute. The officers, NCOs and soldiers who
cam, here belong to the artillery and hays red shoulder^boerds.
4. The units include a research battery, a guard ooalaand for the camp and the
coup coanand itself. Soviet officer somissions often appear and study with
the Hungarian officers.
5. Carried out here are research firings with flew heavy infantry weapons, trial
firings of new artillery before its issmnob, and tests of new weapons not
yet adopted.
6. There are three underground amnnition depots. The munitions cone by railroad
to the Cserd railroad station, and are bro$ght to the camp by truck. The
firings_ are conducted to the north, nhere there is a large aarshy area,, closely
barred off.
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7. The airfield is south of the camp and firing range. There are no hangars
or other permanent buildings, but there are 26 earthen bays. Soviet
fighter units often use the place, the am being installed in tents. The
ground of the field i$-'h rd, and a]aast always usable.
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