TROOPS AT DUPNITSA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500820003-4
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• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Sequence Number: 3
• Content Type: REPORT

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Approved For Release 2006/11/02 : CIA-RDP80-00809AO00500820003-4
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Troops at Dupnitsa
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1. The infantr?v barracks is at the southern edge of Dupnitsa, near the two-lane
Dupnitsa-Svet. Vrach road ? ~G m from the Dupnitsa railroad station. It consists
of a ore-stony guardhoue6; a two-story staff and office building,. three. Lwo-
story quarters, a depot building and a 'large stable. It can take 1,000son.
2. It is occupied by the 22r..d Rifle Regiment headquarters and part of the regiment.
The regimental troops include: Lt. Coi..frL,.7Susulo#f, commander of the regiment, a
former officer of the royal army, with a staff of 25; the quartermlaei.er acminin-
tration, 22 men; medical platoon, 8 men; telephone central, 8 men; transport
company, 30 man; a machine pistol reconnaissance oompy of four platoons with
three squads each, 95 to 100 men all told, with three fight Degtyarev machine
guns and 90 Degtyarev machine pistols; a heavy machine gun company of four
platoons with three squads each, 90 to 100 men, with 12 Soviet Maxim, heavy
machine guns; a mortar company of two platoons with two squads each, 85 to 90
men and still incomplete, with four 50 mm mortars; an AT company of four.
platoons with two squads each, 90 to 95 men and eight 45 an AT guns; a oomoeunioa-
tions company of three platoons with three squads each, 85 to 90 men, mainly
armed with rifles.
3. At the barracks is the lot Battalion, commanded by Capt.ffny7 Dordoff, 42 years old,
a former partisan. It has a staff, 52 to 54 men; lat Company of three platoons
with three squads each, 95 to 105 men, v1.f-h r11ne light machine Runs; 2nd Company,
commanded by Lt. /ny7 Koronelc?,; 3rd Company commanded by Lt 5riu7 Kj; istoff numbers and
armament like the 1st Company.
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4. '!!me regiment is not motorised. It has only four old Gorman traeks, three actor-.
eyelee and two.Skoda passenger *ors.
5. Di oat 1952 and-1953 the regiment received 300 to 350 reeruits. They were not
allowed to leave the barracks before the new year. Near the 1errocks is an
exsraise area to which the men mirched daily. Ming exercises with live
smmanition were very seldom held, and there were few alarms.
6. At the same barracks there was held during the stammer and fail an AT-training
school in which formations from several rifle regiments participated. +me '
training"personnel was 30 to 35 Nan, and the number of trainees was 300 to 320.
Courses included maintenance of AT guns, rocket AT weapons, and close-in AT work
with grenades.
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