SOVIET ARMED FORCES IN RUMANIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700060184-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 30, 2011
• Sequence Number: 184
• Publication Date: May 2, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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Soviet T.t Qen 8. S. Kolganov, whose official Enaction ie that of military
attache to the Soviet Bmbassy in Bucharest, is the real commander-in-chief of
tLe armed forces of the RPR (Rumanian People le Republic). 8e receives daily re-
ports from Hnil?Bodnaras, RPR Minister of Defense, and IIicolae Salageamt, Chief
of Staff of tho RPR. It may be recalled the Bodnaras, whose true IIkral.alan name
is Badnaruk, is a Yormer lieutenant who had been found gailt4r of espionage for
the IISSR. He rgturaed to Rumania together with Ana Paniier affi other high Camw-
niste when the Soviet troops occupied the country. 9alageaml, a former laborer,
likewise achieved hie position through the party.
TA1~ PRI'sCAIlrI0R3 TO PRSVBIIT FLIQ~ OF AVIATOCdB -- Rome, Bollettiao Dam~iano,
12;Apr y1
To pa~eve~ the !light of Rumanian aviators out of their country, the Soviet
coward ordered Colonel TSB (fmi), a former upholsterer raised to commanier of.
thb Rumanian Air Force in August 1950, to maintain strict watch oa airports. He
was told to control strictly the distribution of gasoline to training schools.
The political commander alone ie sathorized to prepare flight plans for airpoa~ts.
He diatributel^ gasoline and is in charge of guards for hangars e~ fuel depots,
An;:iaircraft guns are'.ready at all fields to take notion against possible desert-
ers.
Since trained i.astructors who belong to the party are lacking, former offi-
cers and noacommi.seioned officers of the air force are still need. However,
Chair every step is watched by agents of the polit~.cal commander. The most ans??
pact are discharged as soon as replacements era found. This was the case with'
Colonel Penescu (fau),~ca?andar of the Zilistea.~nzeu airport. MaTq other
flight officers at Focsani, Tecuci, s~ Bumbeeti ware discharged.
` Two Soviet colonels lave ofticee adlsceat to those of Colonel Fulga at the
headgnru tars oY the Rumanian Air Force ia?t2#e Singer building on Brstianu Boule-
vard is Bucharest,
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BurzD ~w BeRRac~ ~ sov~ TROOP nQ auo~aaln -- some, Ballettino Data~iauo,
10 Dec ,rl
The government of the R~aaiea PeoF..e'x Republic ie building an iaatel3ation
.in the city of Resits capable of hoaxing 7,000 men. It will contain egaipment
parehoaeee and garages. Rork ie to be fiaiehsd Sn December 1951. The Niaisicer
of the~Iaterir:, through the Directorate of People's security, contracted ?'.th
Sovromconatructie (9oviet~aaian Conatrnction Shterprise) for the pork. :hie
hoe led the local population to believe that the inatallatioa is intended for
~*"~*+a^ or Soviet police. The management of the construction pso~ect, hoeaver,
is reportefl to have said that the +~~+-?~tioa pould serve to 4uarter Soviet
tr~~pa: These troops are temporarily honied iavL1)ages Oaths Banat, la the city
of~Timisoara, sad in the snrrannding area,
S~~T ~^~ Brea ~ nueiAr~'A -- Rome, Boliettino Dam~biaao, 6 Nay 51
Five aquadrona, of Soviet heavy bombers landed at Otopeai airport oa the
edge of Bucharest is mid /-pril 1951. IIp to that tins, only YAg fighters had
bedn seen. Otcm ai airport, one of the beat in the E. cane, pox prasided pith
a concrete rnmiay is 195D for handling het planes. IIffier the direction of 8avirt
engineer Podoro Devskiy, director of 9ovromconetructia in Bucharest, work pas
finished in December 1950 at a coat of 1.6 billion lei.
CRBATS NII.ITARY AIRPORT IA RONAHIA -- Ra?e, Hollettiao Danubiano, 27 Hov 51
The civilian airport on the edge of (lelati has been enlarged and transformed
isxto a m.litary airport, The.nev installation ie provided pith modern equipment;
a repair shop, foal tanks, apd other items. It ie almost ae large ae the nev
airport completed in Tigl?nn ~poxsibly Sulina~ at the effi of aepte~sr 19A?
All pork at 0elati,.e~ocept on pooden barracks for pereonnel,?pae eampleted in
Hovewber 1957.? soviet tranxpm t planes verp already using the raavayx, gpyist
flying personnel pare quartered in the military hospital of the Rumanian III
Arm7y Corps in Qelati, 'evacuated for that purpose.
ARRSaT 90FIZST SOLDffi;a FOR RLACK SfARI~'IRO IR RWiAniA -- Rome, Boilettiao Dann-
biano, 27 aov 51
soviet officers a~ enlisted men stationed is Rumania for long periods of
time formed ablack-market netpork, principally in food prodvote. They sold
sugar, butter, potniered eggs, canned meat, oil, flour clothing, sad blaNosta
stolen from military parehonxHd or illegally requisitioned tram factorise or
state stores oa tha basis Of forged documents. They acted in collabaantioa pith
Rumanian civilians. Tha acme organization carried on a vide trade is tires,
which Pere no longer available oa the open market. They acespdsd peyme~.ia rut
tiles only, since this pas the only currency they could use if seat beck to the
DaaR.
Hopever, at the end of October 1951, the soviet police discovered the ring
and arrested more than 100 xoldiere, including high-ranking officers.
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