SOVIET TROOPS IN CEGLED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005400030001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 20, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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EVALUATION ----PLACE OBTAINED
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1. A Soviet tank unit arrived in Cegled (Q 48/0 03)
in late March 1950 and. took up quarters in the
so-called Zoeldhalmi section of town. The unit
had more than 100 tanks, according to estimates
of local residents. The tanks had revolving
turrets on which an AA machine gun was mounted.
2. Cegled residents repeatedly observed a Soviet
general in the town. It was said, that the troops
in Cegled belonged to a Soviet tank division,
other elements of which were located in Keeskemet
(Y 6/N 95) and other towns in that area.
3. Cegled residents said that the troops observed
strict discipline. Soldiers were rarely guilty
of offenses against the civilian population. *
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area, like the Soviet troops observed in the
Szolnok (Q 43/0 3) -. Jazbereny (Q' 43/3 11) area
in early April 1950, presumably belonged to a
unit' possibly a mechanized or tank, division
which had been seen in the Kecskemet area. in
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January 1950. The identity
of the units is not knovin@ They may have belonged
to those Soviet troops which had been moved from
Rumania and the U. S. S, R. to the Hungarian -
Yugoslav border area in the late Fall of 194;
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