COASTAL DEFENSES IN THE VARNA AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000400250010-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 6, 2009
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 3, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTI~Q-L INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
II"e~FQRI~ATION REPORT
NO. OF PAGES 2
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S?CURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY $ulgaria
SUBJECT Coastal Defenses in vhe uarna Area DATE DISTR. ~ ;larch :7.9?3 ~ ~ ;: .:
DATE OF INFO.
This is UNEVALUATED Information
7HE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN TH1S REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT !S TENTATIVE.
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le :As of November 1952,, a new reinforced concrete four?gun coastal defense battery
emplacement was being constructed at Shabla (N 43?31 E 28m33a, north of Varnao
This emplacement-was scheduled. for completion in vecember 19520
2~ .AJ of December 1952a the new four?gun coaal defense battery at Cape Galata was
being guarded by an unideritifiecl Bulgarian oast artil3.ery unito
3ro The individual gun emplacements of ,the new fv~r-gun coastal defense batteries
completed in~195z have the following characteristics
ao Inner diameter between reinforced concrete wallsq approximately si? meters9
bd Aepth of gun emplacement from top of-reinforced concrete wall to floors 2d5
meters', ' and
cm tan the floor of .each gun emplacement there is a. reinforced concrete square
platform two by two meters in size and raised 60 centirneters above the floor-
level., 12 screw-bales are fitted inta_this platfgrin to hold the base of the
gun mountings
Unidentified antiaircraft gun. positions are being built is>, the vicinity of X11
tl~ie new four-gun coastal defense batterieso
Politically reliable Trudovaks working on the construction Qf these batteries
have been incorporated.-into a special construction unit9 designated as T-97,
wit}1 headquarters in tTarna, and subordinate to the Coastal. Defense Commandw 192
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Comments The entire Black Sea Caast, to a depth of 15 kilometers'
has-been declared a military zone. A special permit from the military
authorities is required for any movement in populated areas of this zone.
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