ARTILLERY AT VRATSE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500790226-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Sequence Number: 226
• Content Type: REPORT

DEC 1951 SS-KB Approved For Release 2006/11105 :CIA-RDP80-00809A000500790226-1
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
IIdF?RNaATB(DM REPORT
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1. `Phe arti).lery barracks is on a little hwll about 500 m west oP the town,
surrounded by barbed wire, and occupying an ar^a at 50 r, 250 m. 1't consists
01' a two-story ~tafl' and ofilce building, two two-story quarter, a one-stony
quarters, three stables, two gr~ragca for guns ; oz? ~ passenger cars, 6 or 8
Geiznan to;r.ln~ un:.ta and 12 ar 13 trucks .
Y'hc moist recent rec;lu.;.ta arrived in O.:t l.; jr when ' ~;`) to 2U0 ;oath Bu7.garl~:n;I
,joined the .>ecticn, i'hcy took ba:tlc ~.ns:'antry trca.'..n...ag anti! i3ec .L952! marching
out daily and taking t~:r~ :, practice once a t~reek. Mo:?alc was generally poor
becau:;e mood tra:; !n~u.fficient and the men were not allowed to lekve the barrack:,
except fur E:x:::~c ;..:c;:.
PJcur the barrack:: .:Ind 1,OGU m northw;;ct uP Vrst.3a I:. the exercise ar.:a, about
1.5 to 2 by 11 to l1. lcrt. It hnc 1J woouc:n barrc:clc::. a st>?~f.^ bu.i.1C rtg ar~~l a
::ma11 munitions IlepoL'. It hc.r, permanent gun ?slt: 1.~:; and moU'.lc: t::rget:,,
This fall .tt wa:, evacuated c~:c,:; t ;or t. $u:Ird.
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