BULGARIAN 3 ARMY

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 21, 2009
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: May 4, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2009/04/21: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA004001050010-0
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
Bulgaria
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tional Defense of the United States, within the rrrean-
Ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, n:;
amended. Its transmission or, revelation of its content
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Bulgarian 3 Army
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The General Headquarters and the units attached to the Bulgarian 3 Army are
allegedly located in Sliveno This Army is allegedly composed as follows:
a 3 Infantry Division, in Burgas;
bo 5 Infantry Division in Yambol;
18 Infantry Division in Shumen (now Kolarovgrad), Sliven, or Karnobat
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(n
w Polyanovgrad); and
16 Mountain Brigade, in Zvezdets (N 42".07, E 27-2L)
IBommento The location of the General Headquarters of 3 Army in Sliven
and of the location of the General Headquarters of the divisions subordinate
to this Army, in Burgas, Yambol, and Shumen (or Sliven, or Karnobat) corre-
spond with present holdings. The numbers assigned to the Divisions in the
above report are rather surprising. However., they are not impossible assuming
that the numbers assigned to the divisions may have been changed. a4ith regard
to a 16 Mountain Brigade in Zvezdets9 it should be noted that, according to a
:recent retort of Yugoslav origin., the Bulgarian military authorities allegedly
approved the constit,tion of a mountain brigade by the Army.
Comment: Latest available information holds that 3 Arm h t^
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headquarters in Sliven and is composed of the 3 "Chernomorskalt Rifle Division,
in Burgas; the 5 ttDunavskalt Rifle Division, in Provadiya or Varna. (now Stalin);
the 7 ?tBalkanov-Dravskatt Rifle Division, in Yambol; the 18 "Preslavskail Rifle
Division, inShumen, or Sliver-Karnobat area; and the 16 Mountain Brigade, sub-
ordinate to 3 Army,, in Zvezdetss
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