14TH INF REGT

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005800230012-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 21, 2003
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: August 25, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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TONC 14th. Inf Regt
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ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE).
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1. The 14th Inf Regt was subordinate to the 10th Inf Div in
Kosice which, in turn, was assigned to the Hq 4th MD in
Bratislava. The 20th Inf Regt in Presov and Bardejov, the
32d Inf Regt in Kosice, the 11th la.ty Regt in Kosice and a
howitzer artillery regiment at an unknown post were also
subordinate to the 10th Inf Div. (1) Colonel SezamskY,
(fnu), succeeded General Perko, (fnu), as commanding general
of the 10th Inf Div. (2)
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to-the 14th inf Regt since October 1949. The regiment was
named Hrdinu sovetskeho svazu Kapitana Jana Nalepky. (3)
The regimental headquarters and its regimental units were
located in barracks south of i%oznava (R 49/1 49), east of
the road to Plesivec (R 49/D 62). The I Bn was quartered in
the Safarikovy Barracks consisting of two and three-story
brick buildings on the northern perimeter of Tornalja (Q 49/
D 51). The Repl Bu was stationed in Jelsava (Q 49/D 53); and
a subordinate SUB battalion in Rimavska Sobota (Q 49/D 31),
4. The officers of the regimental headquarters included Colonel
Jan Krnac, commanding officer; Liajor Stejskal, (fnu), deputy
CO; Major rikulas Balaz, adjutant; Staff Captain Oldrich
Fribyl, DOZ officer; Captain Frantisek Gartnarek, supply
officer; and Staff Captain Otto Vosta, mobilization officer.
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5. Fifty percent of the EN were Czechs and fifty percent Slovaks.
Recently recruits of Hungarian nationality were also drafted.
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About 5 percent of the BE were members of the Communist
Party. Desertions were frequent, and deserters apprehended
were generally punished with three or four weeks of solitary
confinement.
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6. The 14th Inf lieot was composed of regimental units, a I Bn,
a hepl Bn9 and an SIM battalion. Included in the regimental
units were a Ho Co, an sm Co, an Inf Gun Co, and an NCO
school. (5)
7. The Hq Co, commanded by Senior Lieutenant Pavel Bystry,
comprised a signal platoon, an engineer platoon, and n head-
quarters platoon which included medical personnel, craftsmen,
and clerks. The Sin Co, commanded by Lieutenant Jiri Soucok,
had about 140 men. The Inf Gun Co, commanded by Lieutenant
Eojmir Cervac, had two platoons with two 76.2-mm AT guns
each, and one platoon with two 120-mm mortars. Each section
had one chief of section, six gunners, and two drivers.
The equipment was horse-drawn. The ITCO school, under Staff
Captain Jan Kyselice, was organized into an infantry gun
platoon, a heavy machine gun platoon, and a mortar nlntoon.
Seventy-five LI; attended the course from 15 November 1949
to 15 Earch 1950,
The I fln, commanded by Staff Captain. Jan Kyselice, comprised
two infantry companies and one heavy weapons company. The
heavy weapons company's equipment, which was horse-drawn,
included four heavy machine guns, six 4-mm AT guns and
eight 32-mm mortars.
9. The oepl comprised office personnel and twelve officers,
who were mostly former NCOs. Coponlndin: officer was Staff
Captain Josef Uoltes. The battalion was in ctIlr:e of the
induction of recervists, the mobilization flan, and personnel
rosters of the regiment,
10. The SNB battalion included about 600 recrojts who moved into
the barrac::s in Ananvska 'oobota on 1 October 1949. They had
volunteered for sup service upon completion of their basic
trainin,-;. They yore army uniforms with red SEB epaulets and
were said to be earmarked for border guard sr,rvIce on the
Czech-Hunt7arian border. A battalion of the 14th inf ReTt had
been stationed in 4diolvska Uobota rrior to 1 October 1949,
r_2he battalion was deactivated, and only craftsmen, kitchen
personnel and 35 reserve NC0s, detached from the. regiment
in late October 1949, were loft bd.ind. (6)
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11. Tho 1 in had Czech rifles, model 24, Italian 'erotta sub-
1,1achino gurie li:ht machine Tans, model 36t and Goviet-unde
Fain heavy machine guns. Czech heavy machine guns, mode]. 37
wore to be issued in case of pobilization. The 76.2-mm
ammunition included shells with percussion and delay fuzes,
incendiary ammunition, smoke shells, tracer ammunition, and
aTunition specially designed for penetration. German bazookas
of the Panzorfaust and lanzerschreck types were stored at the
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12. The regiment had only four 3.5-ton ,ord trucks and seven
cross-country potor vehicles. The I Bn was eouipped with
Czech infentry crts, uodel 49, boviet-type horse-drawn
vehicles and German horse-drawn infantry vehicles. The
regiment hed in horses, includin-e 10 riding-horses.
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13. Basic treinir? for all components lasted six weeks and
was performed in accordance with boviet mantras, trans-
lated into Czech by the units themselves. Soviet field
manuals, includine one on close-combat fighting, were
available. The state of training was low, discipline bad,
and the military bearing roor. I!eserve personnel were
participating in three-week exercises in 4ril, ray, and
eugust 1949. The lest major exercises at regimental and
division level AP,ere held in ssv3ust 1949.
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14. In case of mobilization the infantry gun company of the
regiment was to activate two more units armed with 76.2-mm
iT guns and 120-mm mortars. The mobilization strength as
320 men, 240 horses, eight 76.2-mm guns, four 120-mm
mortars and four heavy machine guns.
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.15. copy of a temporary.military pass (Docasny volensky
Preukaz) was obtained in Presov in Lay 1950. I I
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servos as a record of military service, according to ex-
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travel authorization for the trip from the ,unit to the home
town. (7)
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(1) The information indicates that the organization of the 10th
Inf Jiv has not been changed since October 1949 with exception
of the Howitzer artillery regiment which is not believed
to be a component of the 10th Inf Div. The staterient that
the 10th Inf Div is subordinate to the 4th MD is not evidence
that there are no longer any corps headquarters in Slovakia.
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these are seldom mentioned in public.
(2) C4 Colonel Sozansky was identified as chief Of staff in Sep-
tember 1949. He may be the commanding officer, Colonel
Sezamsky. Perko was still identified in Kosice in May 1949,
but he allegedly vae relieved by Colonel (fnu)i in
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(3) The surname actually reads "HrdinY S.S.S.R. Kapitana Nalepky"
(Nero of the U.S.S.R. Captain Nalepky).
(4) Colonel Jan f.rnac was previously assigned to the Ng 4th MD.
in Bratislava.
(5) The sInformation on the organization of. the 14th Inf iot
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the reorganization of the 10th Inf
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The organization of the 20th Inf Regt, as reported then,
is identical ,Ath the oranization of the 14th Inf. Regt,
thus confirming the previous estimatt,: that the 10th Int
thy has been only a cadre division since October 1949.
It was previously reported that the billets vacated by the
10th Inf Div were to house SHB units over which the regiments
of the 10th Inf Div would have administrative jurisdiction.
This information is confirmed by the
present report, at least with regard to the 14th Inf Regt.
See Annex 2 for translation of the temporary pass.
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