ORDER OF BATTLE INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006700690001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 24, 2008
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 5, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains Information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the naplonage Laws, Title
18, US C. Sees. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which In any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
Bulgaria
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1. In early 1955, Soviet specialists arrived in Bulgaria for training
the Army in atomic defense. In early March, Bmall scale atomic defense
maneuvers includi jetiL were held
2. The inspection of all large Bulgarian military headquarters by 14 to 30
high ranking Soviet officers began in the middle of February and was
still underway in early April.
3. The building next to the Greek Legation in Sofia is being renovated to
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house the
Service for International Military Relations."
this will be the headquarters for joint -Hungarian
Rumanian
,
and Bulgarian military staff under Soviet supervision. Marshal Ivan
Stepanovich Konev is rumored to head the Southern Joint Soviet-Satellite
Military Command and Marshal Konstanty Konstantin Rokosovski to head the
northern command.2
4. Starting late January 1955, the mobilization forms issued to reserved
were green for soldiers, and red for officers. The fetus:. cant"n a
code symbol for assignment to be revealed at the time of mobilization.
The reserves included ages 18-50 and are organized in 12 divisions.
5. Bulgaria now has two full strength armored divisions: one at Kazanltlk,
and one near Sofia. The divisions are armed with Svvlet T-34 tanks .3
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changes in the 3 Araq:
a. The 3 Army Artillery Headquarters moved from Sliven to Kolarovgrad in
early March; part of the divisional artillery in Kolarovgrad moved to
Silistra or Tutrakan;
b. As a result of the March 1955 military strength increase in Ruse,
forces there are now at division strength; and
c. Lieutenant General Dobri M. Dzhurov, 3 Army Commander, has been re-
placed by an unidentified officer.
7. Lieutenant General Petdr Iliev, former head of the "Khristo Botev" Reserve
Officers School, 4s now assigned to the General Staff as Chief of Anti-
aircraft Defense.
Comments:
la delegation of high ranking
soviet officers had arrived in Sofia. bly to define the question of
a unified command. a military mission composed
of officers from the var ous satellite states would arrive in Sofia by the
end of January 1955, and would probably be headed by Marshal Rokosovs,ki.
3. Probably the 5 Tank Division in Kazanltik, and the 9 Tank Division in Gorna
Banya.
present head of PVKHO (Protivo-Vuzdushna, Khimicheska Otbrana; Antiaircraft
and Chemical Warfare Defense).
irom comma of tte into Botev" Officers School in Trirnovo and wast
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