BULGARIAN MILITARY SCHOOLS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 5, 2009
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 30, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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SECURITY INFORMATION
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
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Bulgar is,
Bulgarian Military Schools
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REPORT
30 April 1953
roil itary schools in Bulgaria I
T .ho Advanced Military Academy, located, on, R;I,.ement Gottwald Street, Sofia,
divided into s. general and a superintendence section; 33 candidates are
admitted annual Y to this academy;
Sc'h ool - i r"urnovo. for training Infantry
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c The Stalint4ilitary Political School,rwhere noXicnieeioned officers receive
1. months triirlinS, particularly 1,h the history of the Coa m rist Party of the
USSR and the Bulgarian Cemnnnist Party'
Li The Vasil LEvski Infantry School, in Sofia, where Regular Army officers and
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latoon Q,o>tmandors are instructed; admittance is compe
gust 'be ,pradu,itio of a secondary school) the course here lasts three years)
the Aviation ic+' `deny) opsne& in late' 1951, . in Sofia, which trains Air Force
o ices) thl;ourse lasts three years) schools for training air pilot,
are located? 3n Qori Oryakhovitsa, Karlo'vo, Start Zagora) Kazanlikr Atanaeovo,
rwmotd, .,std Doha Mitro!oliyaJ. ;het pilots are trained in the USSR; candidates
fo~o*dmi-xvi.dtL utc the aviation schools in Sozhurishte and Nazanluk must be
1 eltele,na i,lf: eraaneta sch.bole';
i wI4l1er officers
t
ilistra),` T&nk (Plovdiv), Navy kAalchik)) Qorder Qua' e o )
Sofia), Reserves (Sofia, Khyashevo, and Dupnitea) f an officers and noncom-
missioned officers school for training in liaison is located in Silietra; and
finer candidate schools listed by branch, located as follows $ Cavalry
A IS o 4n) Trudovake
ra rh ng a y
The Qeorli Dimitrov Artillery School) in 13ofia, for
active fluty; the course lasts three years;
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No 1commissioned, officers mahoo1.s located in Tirnava, Kazan1.uk, Stara Zagora,
Bergs, F azhevo, and. 4 arna :Banyan 25X1
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