MILITARY INSTALLATIONS IN THE LJUBLJANA AND MARIBOR AREAS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004101140007-3
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2009
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: May 21, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form Is prohibited.
SECRET/CONOL U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY
COUNTRY Yugoslavia
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
Military Installations in the Ljubljana
and Maribor Areas
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 21 May 1954
NO. OF PAGES 2
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REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
Ljubljana Area
1. It is estimated that there are about lO,000 troops stationed in the Ljubljana
area. There has been no military cons z, w-.t?1on in the Ljubljana area since
1945. The civilian buildings formerly :x=pied by military commands have
been de-requisitioned.
2. Basic training is given at a camp heated on Tito Street in Ljubljana where
the IOth Artillery Regiment is quartered.. Artillery troops stationed there
wear the same gray uniform as other branches of service, but unlike the
others the wear boots. The -0th Artillery Regiment has been equipped
with art?i:.lery weapons since sometime between 1949 and
1951.
3. The 27th Infantry Regiment was formerly. quartered in the former Austrian
Belgier Kaserne located between 300 and. 500 meters south of the main
railroad station. Infantry troops wearing gray uniforms and leggings are
presently quartered there.-
An artillery unit and a vehicle unit are quartered in a camp on Poljanska
Street. The strength of the infantry unit is between one and two battalions.
The vehicle unit has about 20 automobiles. It is not a vehicle training
unit.
5. The Ljubljana Central Military Hospital is located across from the Ljubljana
Police Directorate in a building formerly used as a school for girls.
6. A military and civilian airport is located about eight kilometers east of
Ljubljana in the direction of Steinbrueck.2 Three commercial flights of
the Yugoslav airline "Aeroput" use the airfield. They are the Ljubljana-
Graz-Vienna,, Ljubljana -AgramBelgrade,, and. the Ljubljana -Susak-Fiume flights.
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The latter flight is scheduled only during the summer.
Four two-engine de bombers and eight single-engine planes have
been observed on the airfield.3 The four, hangars at the airport are used
for military purposes. There are several barracks behind the hangars where
the :flying and ground personnel are quartered. The uniform worn by the
military personnel stationed there is gray-blue in color. The officers'
uniforms are of a better.quality worsted fabric than those of the enlisted
men, otherwise th$r uniforms are alike. Rigid discipline is carried out
with the troops stationed there and morale is somewhat below average.
Maribor Area
8. There are an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 troops stationed in the Maribor area.
there are no other camps or military installations in
the Maribor area other than those given below.
9. An infantry unit and an antiaircraft unit, strength unknown, are stationed
in, the forwr Austrian military academy in the Maribor suburb of Magdalenen.
The antiaircraft unit has four giuadruple-barreled artillery units
10. An Infantry unit is stationed in the former Kaserne 47 in Triester Street.
This unit is reportedly primarily made up of machine gun sections. The
Military Prosecuting Authority Office is housed in this same kaserne with
the staff of the infantry unit. One of the officers in the Military
Prosecuting Authority Office is one Mayor Ivan Dolenc.
11. There'are about two-infantry battalions quartered in the MS'ljaka Warns.
on Malinger Street.. Ti. hwas formerly known as Raserne 26.
12. The former. artillery. and cavalry kasernes located in the Miiribor sub
of 'XaSrntner, are being used as. warehouses.
13. There: is a civilian airfield for gliders at Tesen, about three ti.lcmetes+i
from Maribor.
14. What appears to be some type of military construction has been going on
for the past three years in the mountains about 15 kileaetnrs from Oillt "
(M46=14,:1l3l5), in the dtreption of Maribor. The work isibeing carried
out under the,supqcvision of military officers and the.oonitruction area
is kept under military. guard.
C nts. It is possible that a full regiment-is
00ti' nts The single-engine planes were believed to be fighters.
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this raserne.
C nt Iassume that
one airfield is used
or both ,pv. n and military purposes
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