1. MILITARY TRAINING GROUNDS NEAR MIMON 2. AIR-BORNE TRAINING CENTER AT MIMON 3. GLIDER TESTING AND TRAINING CENTER AT CHRUDIM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003200500009-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 7, 2001
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: September 22, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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sumwr LMilitary Training Grounds near Ilimon
2. Air-borne Training Center at Ninon
3. Glider Testing and Training Center at Chrudim
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New military training gronnds and a shootine range with secret military objects
have been established in the area of Kurivodn-ilimon. The ITeadwarters is lo-
cated in Ninon. The population has been evacuated from the area. The military
objects are distributed throughout extensive mods controlled by the Administra-
tion of State Forests (SL' Statni Lesni Sprava). The Directorate of the SLS
is in Doksy, which lies in the district.
2., Airborne, Training Cevher at limon
a. The Airborne Training Center now located at Nimon east of Ceske Lipa (051/-
F75) is to be traneferred to the vicinity of Kosice (149/E34) upon the advice of
a Soviet military comedesion which visited the Ninon training grounds. The Com-
mander of the Training Center is Lt. Col. Oldrich Talasek. General Drgac, Chief
of Czechoslovak General Staff, was oriered by the ruesians to give every assis-
tance to General Paleeek? Czechoslovak Airborne Cormander? in movine and expand-
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c. A battalion of 500 to !IOC nen, usine, 3U-52s and Dakotas, is always in
training at the. center. When they finish their six-month course, the nen
are returned to their =titer where they undergo regular training. Parachutists
who are trained for sabotage work are recruited from this battalion.
d. A new type parachute, rade of strips of znaterial, is in rroduction and is
soon to beisaued to the Center.
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a. At Chrudin (050,4178) a new glider center is to be set up for glider testing
and training. Initial plans call ?r*or equippine, the base with four American-
made gliders, each of which will seat thirteen nen. Two new Czech glider
types are being tested, and if pr2ed eseful they will be used at the
This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1976 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
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school. One type will seat 13 men and weighs 1,500 kg. The other will
carry 23 mon and weighs 4,500 kg. Neither type has yet been given an
official designation.
b. The commander of this Center was to be Lt. Col. Antonin Nemec, but he
was expelled from a unit commanders school in March 1949 and therefore
dropped from considaration for any command position.
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