TROOPS AT NAGYKANIZSA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000200060029-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: May 27, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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SUBJECT Troops at Bagykanizsa
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DATE D I STR . .-~,7 May 1954
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1. At thle > ~f~s (. rgT Infantry'arracks on Begolal Street in Nagykanizaa there is a
Hungarian motbriaed rifle regiment,.. with all three : of its battalions. It is commanded
by Lt. {'dol. LOsz16 zendi. There are about, 1,6W men, wearing greau aaou.Laer
boards and im>siglaia. Each platoon has a Degtyarev light machine gun. Each
battalion has six lraxia heavy machine guns and four 82 - mortars. The-regiment
.also has 120 ma mortars,, 57 M AT guns and AL machine guns. The auto park con-
sists of 74 or 76 tracks and two, passenger cars.
2. There is a motorized the 0Lbor Iron Artillery. Barracks 25X1
on Petofi Gasse The lot Section has tthrep batteries
with a total of twelve 122 ma hovitgers. Two of the officers are Capt, lure
Thili and 'Lieut. Sindor j gj. There is, a heavy machine gun platoon with
tour guns. The 2nd Section is also armed with twelve 122 howitzers.. The 3rd
Section has twelve 76.2 m
guns. Both 2nd and 3rd Sections have a heavy machine
gun platoon like the 1st. The auto park consists of 32 prime movers of various
types, 5 Tatra passenger cars and 18 Csepel Diesel trucks. The regiment, has
about 1,MOO men. They wear red shoulder boards and insignia, The'regiment
undergoes infantry. training in the courtyard of the barracks and at Eosaztvolgy..
Field exercises are carried out near Iharosber4ny and iagyrecse.
3. The Pet?fi Barracks is at Teleki Gesso 82. It holds o 'communications battalion,
#last fully motorized. There are 430 to 44Q son, wearing dark blue shoulder
boards and insignia. The. battalion is organized according to regulation and
dipped with telephones and radios, including an especially large ml'm