TROOPS AT CARACAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500780059-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Sequence Number: 59
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For (Release 2006/10/19: CIA-RDP80-00809AO00500780059-8
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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1. Ti. i "i th infantry Regiment at Caracal, strength abcu t 900 mer_,
23 i /gu.Kt Ba1Tacke, Strada Libertati 46.,. Com...inded by Cal 0cta ,iar:
the regiment, not motorized, is divided into three battalions of three
each. Fanrl r;ornpaT,y has three No 10 heavy machine guns and four No 8 1igrt me^"
guns. Tlar-,". boulder boards are decorated in red.
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2. The 4th P.. t.3.7. i ry Regiment strength about 650 men, is in the Grn- -s Magi.-- -
S-trada T.ibY:-?tati 52.! Commanded by Lt Col Ion I Andreescu, the home-thews =e4 .-? -.
is divided ir]t'i three battalions of four batteries each. Ea.::h ba'.,toz-y ec: t'c'
1'-tilrv moll-21. 33 122 mm field howitzers. Their shoulder boards are bla.c:k i h
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3. The 13th Bardhr (,Bard Regiment in the Capitan Feraru Barrack, St=ac.,a A--crs.L-;i 2
is commr.xidri b,.1, Cal Vasile N Traistaru. Having a strength of abou-, . = .n, t is
divided into tb ree battalions of throe companies each. Each cougany ::a`/ four type.
SD 36 heavy machine guns and four Tokarev auto-rifles. Their shoulder Garda are
decorated in 1 ??.Rht green.
4. A labor dctachni ni, strength about 1200 men is in the Pace Barracks corm-ex about 1.500 m
east of Ca?sal. on the road to Rosiorii. tt consists of 18 barracks, each about
12 x 50 ,n and i:i commanded by Cal Victor Ciocan.
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This report is for the use within the USA of the Intelligence components of the Departments or
Agencies indicated above .(I It is not to be t'.asmitted overseas without the concurrence of the
originating ontce tllruui;a tho Assistant Director of the We* of Collection and Dissemination, CIA.
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