ENLISTMENTS IN THE CZECHOSLOVAK ARMY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009600080009-3
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 2000
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: January 2, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT Enlistments in the Czechoslovak Amy
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In February 1951, source, who was born in 1931, received a card instructing
him to report on 15 :larch at an appointed place for enlistment. The card
also instructed him to bring along certain personal documents and advised
him to arrive "sober, washed, and in clean clothes." Anyone reporting drunk
would be penalized. The card bore the stamp of the County Vilitary Command,
Enlistment Commission Pilsen 2 The
required, and the following record of his , .
2. The 1929 class was called first to anpnar before the commission. The
entire class was onlietad..with the exeeption of one menber? whose one log
was 5 cm. shorter than the other. All of the 1930 class was enlisted,
with the exception of thoee physically handicapped. For example, Minn
Melina, born 1930 at Vejprnice near Pilsen. is a photographer and was employed
in the Skala r:orks? Pilsen. He had been ill, and had just spent half a year
in the hospital prior to reporting for enlistment, but in spite of this, he
was recruited, and was told to report on 1 October 195/. However, on 10 ::ay
1951 he received a card "inviting" him to enter the service on 15 1:ay 1951.
He was subcoquently assigned to an engineer unit in Doetn (N5056)0
3. Recruits from the 1931 class wore eelected more carefully. Only 12 men
out of 25 were taken. The commission also paid closer attention to the
occupations of the enlistees and shoved particular interest in auto mechanics,
plumbers, vulcanizers, mechanics etc.
40 All of the non reported to the commission in groups of 12. First,
Measurements for boots were taken, than weight and hoiget wore recorded.
There followed a medical exaulnation by an army doctor and two assistants.
The examination was performed in the following way: The doctor listened
to the heart, examined both foot and then asked: "Do you want to be a
soldier?" ilost of the enlietoes anevered in the negative, but they were
enlisted anyway. The new recruits proceeded to another room whore they
heard a lecture by the political officer, and then each member had to
appear before the Cadre Commission,
5. The souree aall that publications have appeared in Pilsen ordering men of
the 1931 class who have not yet enlisted to appear at the County jilitary
Command in Pilsen within 14 days. A similar order was published for the
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1932 class. After the enlistmonto or completed In the nprinc of 1951,
the enlistoes uere told thct cone of them would be called to scrurice in the
spring and still others in interwla up to 1 October 1951. From 1 April
1951, the call-ups took 'loco every month on tho first and/or the fifteenth.
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