BATTALION COMMANDERS SCHOOL, BRUNTAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000500020008-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2001
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: March 26, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT Battalion Commanders School., Bruntal
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2. The daily schedule at the school was as followsa
0800 Theories of firing for all weapons, tactical training, field problems,
gunnery., topography and politics.
1400 Dinner and free time
1600 Further training in tactics, firing and gunnery
1800 Supper
2000 Class room study. The class was divided into small groups and the smartest
students instruoted'the less intelligent ones.
2300 Taps
The schedule did not follow the same pattern from day to day. Some days, for example,
during the 0800 to 1400 period, political training was substituted for gunnery or
for field problems.
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3. The total weekly instruction-had to include the following
subjects delivered in the designated time periods.
Combat tactics -
Theory in,tactics
Political training -
.Firing training -
Physical training -
Communications -
training-
six to 10 hours weekly
six hours weekly
six hours weekly
16 hours weekly
six hours weekly
six hours weekly
The weekly training thus covered a period of 49 hours.
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Major (fou) Legari and Staff Captain (fnu) Hujvan were instructors
in combat tactics at the School.
Major Legari and Staff Captain Hu
Russians,.since both spoke Czeoh with an accent. Forty two officers
started the course but three were-eliminated for the following
reasons. One. officer was 'dismissed from the school for his
associations with a married woman, the second was dismissed because
of physical disability and the, third was transferred before the
completion of .the course because he was exceptionally brilliant
and, was assigned to the General Staff.. I have no further information
on the last man. except that he was 27 years old, held the rank of
Captain,:,and his'name was Otto Hruseoky. Of 'the 39 officers who
completed the course, 20 were captains, nine lieutenants' and 10
junior lieutenants.. All officers were promoted one grade upon
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