MISCELLANEOUS MILITARY INFORMATION FROM THE SILISTRA AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001400260009-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2009
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: July 3, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document eontain. information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 784, of the U.B. Oods, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of Its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person Is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Miscellaneous Military Information
from the Silistra Area
PLACE ACQUIRED
A Communications Corps unit consisting of approximat'e1y-500 men, including 50
officers, is located in the southeastern outskirts ' of Silistra. This unit is
commanded by a colonel and includes six, or seven majors, approximately 20
captains, and other officers of lower rank.
.2. There are two officers$ schools in the compound of this unit, one training
Communicatioms Corps officers and other training Cavalry officers.
3. The Communications Corps school admits men with at least a secondary education
after one year of service in a oomnunic ations unit. The curriculum at this school
is two years and each class has 60 students who receive the rank of second lieutenant
upon completion of the course. The instructors are for the most part engineer-
officers and they have at their disposal receiver and transmitter installations.
This school is commanded by the same Bulgarian.colonQl who is in command of the
Communications Corps unit. The school also holds regular refresher courses for
reserve officers sent there by the various commands. The courses last 90 days
and include 60 days study at the school and 30 days training in,an artillery unit
stationed in Silistra.
The Cavalry officers school admits men with two years service in a cav4ry unit
such, ao'the one stationed in.Silistra, The course lasts one year and each class
includes 30 students. Upon completion of the course, graduates receive the rank
of second lieutenant and are then transferred to a cavalry unit. The school is
commanded by Colonel 4rigorov (fnu), a Bulgarian.
5? Barracks located 500 meters west of the Communications Corps unit house the
following units:;
An unidentified cavalry unit, commanded by a major, has four squadrons of
30-35 men each; this unit Includes approximately 30 officers; and
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 3 duly 1953
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be An unidentified artillery unit which is called a division (sic), is commanded
by a major and has a strength of approximately 100 men; until 1952, this unit
was equipped with light, long-barrelled guns;. early in 1952 it received 12
Skoda 105 mm. howitzers with short barrels, each operated by a crew of.three;
the unit is also equipped with approximately 10 mortars and 20-30 machine guns;
other.units subardinate to this artillery division (sic) are stationed at
Razgrad (.N li3-32, E 26-31), 'approximately 100 kilometers southwest of Silistra.
6. The headquarters of the Border Guards for the Bulgarian tumanian frontier sector,
which rues from Silistra approximately 50 kilometers toward Dobrich, are located
approximately 500 meters egst of the Communications Corps compound in Silistra.
The headquarters staff is composed of approximately 100 men.
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