TROOPS AT CEGLED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000100070026-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 4, 2001
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: December 9, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2001/080024 COAfR 1 0dQ13PR000100070026-6
SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Hungary
SUBJECT Troops at- Cegldd
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THFU UM N C N AINI INFORMATION AFFEC ING THE NATIONAL DL iN/i
OF THL UNITED STATEI, WITN IN THE MEANING OF TITLE 1E, SECTIONS 763
AND 714, OF THE U.S, CODE, Al AMENDED, ITS TRANSMIIIION OR NEVA.
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO ON RECEIPT IV AN UNAUTHOR1291) PERSON Is
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DATE DISTR. 9 Doe 1953
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25X1X THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION REPORT NO.
la There is a Hungarian replacement command in the building of the
Herrenkasixlo at Teleki Gasse 20.
'2, In the tower of the old, Reformed Protestant Church there is an air
observation station with six military personnel on duty. The station is under
the Kerlekoz Central at Kiskunhalas.
3. The armored barracks on Tarteli Street was built and occupied in 1950.
It has a capacity of 2,000 and is now occupied by an armored regiment. The regiment
consists of regimental troops and two battalions. Strength 900 to'960 men, with
55 to 60 T-34 tanks? The men have blue shoulder boards. The auto park consists of
three tank cars, 7 radio cars, 1 ambulance, 7 tank recovery vehicles,, 10 to 12
Jeeps, 12 to 15 Csepel motorcycles without sidecars, 7 motorcycles with sidecars,
5 Tatra personnel carriers, 17 to 1.9 trucks, mostly-Csepel Diesels.
4. Active soldiers are trained in the regiment under the leadership of
Soviet technical officers. instruction is basic and very hard. The soldiers are
required to start motors and load guns while blindfolded. The regiment rarely trains
with heavy equipment. Mostly they march out on foot and undertake infantry exercises.
5. At the end of April 1953, the regiment marched out to undertake battle
exercises along the Cegldd-Abony road. It was divided into small units practicing
attack on hostile parachutists who were supposed to have landed in the area. All
equipment was heavily camouflaged. in May the regiment proceeded to field exercises,
leaving the staff behind. New recruits were brought in to bring the regiment up to
war strength,
6. Four private houses were taken over by the Hungarian Army on Rdk6ezi and
Teleki Streets, They have been occupied by a motorized communications battalion, which
has erected six-meter, high antennae on the roofs. Radio cars have been observed in
the courtyard of the building at Teleki Street.24. The unit is engaged in training,
and rooms in the houses have been . m de into schoolrooms.
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