1. PS BATTALION IN BELA NAD RADBUZOU 2. PS BATTALION UNITS IN THE POBEZOVICE AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008500510012-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 30, 2000
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: August 15, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
,:n~ a 3TPV _ _. Cz_tihoslovaki a ... __.,-REPORT NO a..~_..__-.....~_
/ALUATION_. 20e bel _c7vr ,.,_..e.,PL.ACE OBTAINED -----
DDATE OF CONTEY`Tior to 28 April 19
DAT : OBTAMED, DATE PREPARED 1 A.11-- s .
REFERENCES
PACES-- ENCLOSURES (NO. & TYPE) 1 Utandarcd Ilan owe almst'Rnn
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3attalion in Bela nad R,adbuzou.
I. Prior to 14 April 1951, the CS battalion in Bela nad Radbuzou (weissensulz)
(N So/P 52) was subordinate to the PS brigade headquarter- which was
located in Pohezovi_ce (1 5o/p 61) and commanded by "?ajor Herian, (fns.} n
2. The PS, battalion in Bela nad? Itadbuzou had Utvar 11o 6654 and was cornranded
by Lieutenant Be.k, (fnu). Its 1st Co was located in J ?isencdorf (.1 5011
52), the 2d Co in Dianaberg (1-1 SO/P 52) the 3d Co in risendo fska Hut
(11 SO/P 51), the path Co in Plea (I'loessij (N 5'0/1' 51), and the 5th Co in
Vaclav (',enzelsdorf) (11 SO/P 51), The ccmpaniea were interconnected by
telephone.
3. The 3d Co in -0isendorfska Hut had Utvar Ho 6606 and n :bered lei soldiers,
including 27 recruits inducted on 1 October 1950. it was quartered in a
form.or inn. About 60 percent of the personnel were Slovaks and hO percent
Czechs. Two dogs belonged to the unit. The company had model 98-41 rifles,
im dels 48-A and he-p, submachine gtuns, model 26 light machine guns and
Czech eggshaped hand grenades. The r,it nal equipment included l portable
switchboard with 20 telephone connections and 3 German field telephones.
The company possessed 1 model soda--Tudor passenger car and 1 model Java
motorcycle. The border sector of the PS company vas controlled by two
patrols of 3 Lien each, rho only occasionally had does with them. There
were no watchtowers or obstacles in the sector of the coxnpanyp
4. There were. informers in all squad rooms whose mission was the supervision
of the politically unreliable. There was little interest in the tv4o hours
of political indoctrination per day, which had most the opposite
ef.'ect to what it was intended. The personnel secretly critisiGed the
political conditions in milita.xy and civilian life.
5o Basic trainiag began in Thranov (Trasenau) (11 501F 70) from 1 to 15 October
1950 and was continued in Hostoun (Hostau) (.1 50/P 61) until 23 December
1950. R.ecoxd firing practice with all arms was held about seven times
near Bela .nad Radbuzou.
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been determined, The present report does A..,,: ^,)nfirm previous information
stating that the southernmost PS core of the i': x,ks-' Ilion in Bela was
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Convent, This company probably belongs to the PS
na fit?r,' ve _ rt rl X011
C0NFIDENTIAj
7- In April 1951, a PS :y,it, which had piso received the rew insignia, was
stationed in a multi-stb.,r former theater building In 'Houston. A washing
machine installed there in i bruary 1951, was paid for by a headquarters
in the castle of Pobezovice, A avv;.ly guarded concrete shelter, occupied
b,,,,* about 20 air force soldiers
Houston. , was situated about 600 meters south of
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6o Up to late April 19,471? a Pt; unit of 1.50 to 200 EPA, armed with rifles and
submachine guns,, was stationed in a former three-e ;ory school building at
'la and Rrdbuzou. On 20 April 1951, the unit was jssued new red-bordered
gam` epaulats and dogs s head ,_risignia on collar patches. An acquaintance
of soc'a ,e, w2.n server with the unit stated th:Lt all personnel of the unit
were resc2`cttd to quarters and had9to sleep with their clothes on throughout
April 1551, t?:egedly because of the large-scale maneuvers by U.S. troops
near the border, About 40 other soldiers werre quartered in a building at
the exit of Bela nad Radhuzou to Eisendorf, where the milit ry post head-
quarters with a radio station was also located. All bill; for services rendered
to the PS uni:'. ha:' to be turned t to th :s headquarters ''or payment
80 A PS company with about 1.5 does was stationed in Eisendorfa
PS Units in the PobezoviceArea,
9m In April 1951, a PS unit of about 50 soldiers with some dogs was quartered
in a saw mill and a former consy- house: just south of Carpatice (Nepomuk)
(N 50/P 60),
10. A PS unit was located in an inn with a 3 ook