TROOPS AT NAGYKANIZAS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500820135-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Sequence Number: 135
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL IN1?ELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORIV~ATION REPORT
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1, n+ the nn'~~a rwiirvY7 Infant:r Barracks on Bagolai Street in Na~yksnizsa there is a
Hungarian motorized rifle regimentD with ell three of its. battalions. It is commanded
by Lt. Col. Laszlo Szenal. Theme are aoc.uc !,Gtiv aCi,, wearlcug ga?aaii ~i>.ouluer
boards and insignia. $ach platoon has a Degtyarev light machine gun. Bach
battalion has six riaxla heavy machine guns and Pour 82 a= mortars. The regiment
also has 120 ms sorters, 57 aui AT guns and AA machine guns. The auto park con-
aiats of 74 or 76 trunks anc? txo passenger cars.
2. There is a aotorized artillery regLaent in the Oebor Qron Artillery Barracks
25X1 on Petofi Oasse The 1st Section has three batteries
wSth a total of txelve 12 mm howitzers. Txo of the officers are Capt. Imre
T~trai and Lieut. S~ndor ~. There is a heavy machine gun platoon xlth
dour guns. ..The ~ Section is also armed with txeloe 122 hoxitzers. The 3rd
Section has txEl~e 76.2 iQ guns. Both 2nd and 3rd Sections have a heavy machine
gun platoon like the 1st. The auto park consists of 32 prime movers of various
types, 5 Tatra passenger cars and 18 Csepel Diesel trucks. The regiment has
about 1,400 men. They rear red shculder boafids and insignia, The regiment
undergoes infantry training in the courty-arrj of the barrack. and bt Hosazuvolgy.
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3. The Petofi. Barracks is at Teleki (iasse 82. It holds a contiuriicaGlons battalion,
a Lost Pully motorized. There are 430 to 44p men, nearing dgrk blue shoulder
boards and insignia. The battalion is organized accordinFS to regulation and
equipped xith telephones and radios, inoluding ar. especially large number of 25X1
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various makes. There are meekly ezercis~a.
~. TSe aaatie barracks holds an AAA aectior, which wsa installed there in the
spring of 1953.. There ere 4?W to 470 ...en, rearing red shoulder boards and
inaigaie and belonging to the active c saes, 1930 to 1932. There is an
obasr-stion and intol~ation platoon anQ three batteries, eooh.xith tour
autocratic 37 aa< guns.. The battalion coves out daily to the target range,
where riring poaitians tsave been built._ Once a reek there are intantr~
ezerciaea. The auto park has 37 0: 40 prise savers and tracks, awatly llieppon
and Caepel tTpea.
At the Hosazu~olg~ camp there is stationed a technical battalion still in process
of organization and incocrplete.