MILITARY WORKS ON TURKISH FRONTIER

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500790105-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
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• Content Type: REPORT

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DEC 1951 51-40 Approved For Release 2006/11/05: CIA-RDP80-00809AO00500790105-5
25XfOUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT
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PLACE ACQUIRED
(BY SOURCE)
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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During the summe:^ of 1953, = :~ .`me.r_ts '_r`om the Elk Novo Brigade of the
Bulgarian Labor Army were T_,_y ba.>,iding artillery emplacements in
the fortified zone along -,.h Iurkio f-,o:A:le::,.
2. Ea--h of these smplacemerts of a t-enc'_i two meters in
diameter, with a onshore platform f- base. On one side there'is an
opening for the g.u?!. On ea: siie the .e are =.ub':erranean shelters for
the artillerymen. These dugo?,i'.;a are three ms tore. long, and one meter
wi_ a, with a height, at the of ..c metsre. The dugouts get
deeper toward the end. One end has a ??eath of '' .8 meters, the other
2.2 meters. Within the dugouts there are also ri:hes for the soldiers
to use in case a shell e:a:p_a es In emplaaement. At the end of one
of the pair of dugouts, there is an~1-shaped treneverse section, two
meters long by one meter wide, for ammuni;?i=n storage. At both ends of
the dugout there is a con,~r-e to pipe erg= ,un to Harry off the water.
The shelters are mate of `risks, laid ].Fng. `Area ~. The roof is brick
vaulting. It is -over ed -di-17. ea ; ^ centimeters think and
masked with sad. The is a tamped earth.
4. These artillery emplacements are from the to eight hundred meters apart,
depending on the ~onfiga.ratior. of the tr.= rain. The emplacements here
deso: _ribed are one and a half kilome to from t'-.e vill sge of Voden, district
of Elkhovo, about thirty kilomete::a rrcm the Turkish frontier..
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ENCLOSURE (A): Sketch of Artillery Emplacement
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ENCLOSURE (A) SECRET
SKETCHES OF ARTILLERY EMnl LACEPVNT
(a)
(b)
(c)
Emplacement of the gun
Shelter (dugout)
Ammunition store
Sketch 3 (Vertical Section):
(a
Concrete platform
(d)
3ricks
(b
Sod
~e
Pipe (water escape)
(c)
Earth
f
(g)
External entrance
Internal entrance
(d) Pipe (water escape)
(i Entrance
(f) Niches for personnel