BAD MORALE IN MILITARY UNITS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500810217-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Sequence Number: 217
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2006/09 8: CIA-RDP80-00 09AO00500810217-8
SECRET
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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Various Informants nave in recent weeks supplied mt 1t^ ^~*u~iy
confirmatrry reports stating that signs of discontent c--,n r.?~ ~F 0,~,1?-,,0,0
both in the Bulgarian regular (car 'er) army and. anorp troop, tyo irv .r P: r
tour of military duty. Discontent among the troops sceS h.e rc'r ".
An undetermined number-Gource can give no specific infornati.* z3 I.o
numbers but can say only manof soldiers have followed tree old i+u:P '.a,
custom of taking to the mountains. They do this, however. only if L.ne.-e
is no chance of getting across the strictly guarded frontier. ^?oldler-
sorving in frontier garrisons, however, appear terrorized, as 9 r.su1.. cf
"instructions" (presumably threats) given them.
2. some so. iers are reported to have been shot, when they were detected
trying to gat away, with full equipment, on their return from maneuvers.
3. This situation apparently explains why it has been thought necessary to
send 200 Bulgarian officers, just back from politico-military training
in the USSR and from service with the Soviet Army, to Bulgarian units. .,1l
these men seem to be serving as political commissars.
4. These new commissars have received powers more extended than in tie r~4t.
They have power to punish soldiers severely for offenses agatr:t the. regixe.
.They also have the right to assemble a local court-martial of s new sort,
`to try soldiers i3aught trying to cross the frontiers, without the Bulgarian
Army's usual court-martial procedure, and without reference to the 3ulgarl?n
equivalent of the JAG. These extraordinary courtts-martial, summoned only by
the political eom>tirser, have the right to pass. *e death sentence by shooting
in cases where Bulgarian soldiers have tried to pass the frontier. Scre
soldiers are reported to be joining resistance groups in the mountains.
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