OBSERVATIONS ALONG THE DANUBE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008500450001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 1, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGEN REPORT NO
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INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY 13ungary/Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT Observations along the Danube
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DATE DISTR. 1 Sept:? 1951
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1. A parachute.-troop training field is located near the Danube River just
south of GdnytV (Y 55). The field has a number of towers for practice
jumping, and in many places it has trenches and revetments,.
2. Tankers of the SDGP and Sovromtransport are now carrying gasoline and crude
oil northward from Giurgiu, Rumania, to Bratislava. It is stated that this
reversal of the customary southbound flow of oil products from Austria, Gzecho?
slovEkia, and Hungary to Rumanian refineries has been noticeable since
February 1951,
3. During the last half of July Sovromtransport tankers delivered corn (sic)
from Ismail, Bessarabia, to Komarno and Bratislava. In this case also
source states that the normal flow of traffic is in the opposite direction.
SDGP tugs which formerly transported bauxite downstream from Komarno to
Ismail are now towing many empty barges because of a shortage of bauxite.
5. A strip about 15 kilometers deep along the Hungarian-Yugoslav border is'
heavily guarded by Hun Tian troops. The area iriiediately adjacent to the
border is watched by two-man roving AVH patrols, both motorized and on foot;
a second control area is established two or three kilometers from. the actual
frontier, and is supervised by patrols of the same composition. On the other
hand, the area between 5 and 15 kilometers from the border is patrolled by
special border guard detachments of the regular Hungarian Army. At the 15k-
kilometer line the control is supervised by the regular army units stationed
in the vicinity. The primary responsibility of these patrols is to catch illegal
border crossers and to check the papers of all persons moving in the area. A
special authorization is required even for the local inhabitants to enter the
15-kilos Teter zone.
6. Durin- the past year the Hungarian Army has constructed many barracks at
locations 10 to 15 kilometers frorl the Yugoslav border. The barracks are four
stories high, SO to 100 meters long, and about 14 meters wide, and are surrounded
by wire fences. Such barracks have been observed between xiohdos and Udvar (a
village directly on the border, southwest of "fohdcs), and near florjdd (B 41);
a sldlar barracks is reported to be located near Kiskunhalas (N 70). The
village of Udvar is said to have been completely destroyed early in June 1951,;
by order of the Hungarian government, and Its inhabitants deported to places
farther in the interior of the country,
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