KOSICE - TOWN DESCRIPTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00047R000200750003-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 15, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
� SUBJECT Kosice Town Description
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the following installatiOns
of Kosice;
1. Post Office, Telephone and Telegraph - three floors, brick constructiom.
2. Police Station Three floors - brick construction.
3. Military barracks for infantry and cavalry.
troops are quartered here.
four or five huyAred
4. Motor vehicle repair shop. This is an old brick building. A large number
of spare parts for motor vehicles are stored here.
5. Gypsy qudrter. More than two hundred gypsies live here. This is one el" ,ae
best Aileouts in-town. Without the aid of the gypsies it would be difficult
to find a person in this quarter.
6. Town's largest brewery.
7. City Hall and provincial offices.
8. Technical School. Chiefly teaches machinery. About three hundrel studeni,s
attend it.
9. Mayor's office.
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1O,,. Small hydroelectric power plant.
Magnesite sintering plant. It consists of one large brick building of three
floors and a smaller Ohe. floor brick building. The ore is mined 9bout th7,7e
kilometers, north ot Kosice, and (In 191414.) transported by horsedrawn wagon t,)
the sintering plant. It was owned by a German' firm(1944). This plant employs
about 150 persons. It is located adjacent to the railroad bridge over the
Hamad River.
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St. Elizabeth's Roman Catholic Church. It is located in the geographi(!
center of the town.
13.
Roman Catholic Church.
14.
Lutheran Church.
15.
Hotel Schalkaz (Hungarian name). Three floors, about 80 roams. Brick
construction.
16.
Hotel Europe. Four floors, about two hundred rooms. This is the largest
hotel in town (in 1944). Brick construction.
17.
Hotel Imperial. Three floors, brick construction.
18.
Greek Orthodox Church.
19.
Roman Catholic Church.
20.
Roman Catholic Church.
21.
Large restaurant. Two floors, brick construction.
22.
Large apartment building. Six floors. This is the tallest building in
town (in 1944). Brick construction.
23.
Three brick factories. They are located about 1/2 to one kilometer west of
the gypsy quarter.
24.
National Theatre.
25.
Small public park.
26.
Large thermal electric powerplant and town's-water works. This electrical
power plant supplies racist of the town and a small rural area around the
town.
27.
Flour mill.
28.
Public swimming pool.
29.
Railroad station used by passenger and freight train.
30.�
Railroad roundhouse. It accommodates (1944) about 15 engines, it is
located about 1/2 kilometer east of No 26.
31.
Warehouses.
32.
Fire station.
33.
Airport. It is located about two kilometers south of the ire ntatinn
1944 it had one small concrete strip and the largest plane
was a small two-motor plane.
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Cemetery. It is located across the road from the airport.
35.
PUblic market place.
36.
MbidOn picture theatre,
37.
Gas factory and large gas tank.
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387 Court-buildings, Both town and provincial courts!
39\ Large hoSpital with about two thousand beds. It is located about one
kilometer north of the cemetery.
40. Orphan home.
41. Public park,
42. Warehouse'.
43; Switching stations.
44% Bank.
45., Bank,
46.. Streetcar terminal sheds.
Varsanc Street - houses of prostitution.
48. Public Health. Department building,
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49., Jail.
50. Agricultural !Wasatch InatitUte located about three kilometers north of
town. Research is restricted to plant life.
51. Railroad bridge moor Hamad River . double track. Railroad throughout
to is de1.1*.0 track.
5. Street,, oTidge over Sorted River.
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