THE AVH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R013000050011-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2001
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: October 22, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENNCERA ENCY ORMATIO REPORT NO, INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Hungary
SUBJECT The AVH
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1. The enclosed document is sent to you on loan.
2. Please return by 21 November 1952.
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became verse day by day. ty the middle of February they were glad, to be
sent out to border service.. With the border guards, until the spring of
1952, the f ocssd. was considerably better than in the "ay.
The border guards get no leave for the first seven me nths. They are prevent
troa eorres ponding directly with their families. There are months together
when they get no news from home.
8. Save were blue AVE troops wall In 8 mbathe:
of the blue. A appeared on . the border only when notified
aim Or, std one iz d on the bovdar. They took over oust of arrested
and turned the e s over to the
,At the 8sentpet+erta bor post not a ti
Of Peebruaxy 1952 to the middle of May.
was taken from the middle
10. At that post, at the present titan there are 70 border guards, commuded by a
L ist second, lieut enant. Until the Middle of February there were only 25.
Not one of the award* older in service has been discharged up to now. The
soldiers do not know long they will have to serve; they sperm of three and
five years.
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U. Night duty lasts eight. hours. Day duty is also also eight hours in principle, but
reality it is 16 hours because the-soldiers have no rest before and after
the *I&+. hours* patrol duty. Two friends are never bent out together; this is
to prevent opportunities for esseape. Enemies are usually placed with each other.
Often an older border SwLrd vitb a machine pisstol.atnd a recruit with rifle and
bayonet go on patrol together. Tart spite of this, escapes occur frequently.
referee the awards are are "signed to & bor r post, they are told:, in order to scare
t m, that deserters are seized by the Austrian gendarmerie and delivered up to a
Soviet ec ad ;'fit delay. The coww ders declare publicly to the guards that
death waits for deserters is Eungary, acrd that their families will be punished.
severely, These threats hardly fulfill their purpose, 'because way deserters flea
to Austria. The geendaraee always let them ibrou . If they are taken by a Soviet
agency., they are lost.
12. The border awards have orders to report to headquarters every footprint they see
in the earth on the border, but they seldom do it. In order to nave work, they
take a bough and wipe out the betraying print.
13. Hoar guards on the western border have not had. a whey's leave sine* November 1951.
Only the battalion commander is authorized to grant leave, is so ill-reputed
and feared that no one ventures to approach him.
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