MILITARY UNIT LOCATIONS AND BARRACKS CONSTRUCTION IN WESTERN RUMANIA

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 23, 1999
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• Publication Date: November 12, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT Military Unit Locations and Barracks Construc-
tion in Western Rumania
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1. The 29th Artillery Regiment in Arad,, Rumania is motorized With 12 SIS-151 trucks
commanded by'Col Florea Albu. The former commander has been called to the General
Staff. The four batteries of the 1st and 2nd Sections have been filled with.replace-
ment troops and made into a third section, so that the regiment now consists of three
sections of three' batteries each.. The strength is about 600 men.
2.. Letters from members of the 7th Taiik Regiment indicate that it is now located at
Sanandrei, about 14 km north of Timisoara.
3. Work is still in progress on the barracks at Aradul Nou, and no troops have moved in.
4. The 5th Rumanian Border Guard Brigade, strength about three thousand men, is located
in a barracks 1800 m north of Siria. The Brigade is composed. of three regiments of
three battalions each, each battalion having three companies of five platoons each.
The regiments of this brigade are the 6th, 10th and, 16th. The Commander is Maj Gen
Tache Dragomirescu.
The 6th Border Guard Regiment,".not motorized, strength about one thousand men, is
commanded by Col Eugen Lemnaru. The Adjutant is Major.Vasile I Cristescu. Each
company has 10 Simonov auto-rifles and 32 M-40 machine pistols. They wear shoulder
boards decorated in green.
6. The 10th Border Guard Regiment,strength about one thousand men, is commanded by
Col Mann Seicaru. The Adjutant is Capt Ion Dobrescu. Each company has three ZB-38
light machine guns and 24 Simonov auto-rifles.. They wear shoulder boards decorated
in green.
7. The barracks complex at Simand was completed in May 1953, and is now occupied, by the
semi-military unit Labor Section ZI 4/Z. This unit is about 800 men strong, arid-is
made up of building workers not trained with weapons. The members belong to older
classes, born 1915 to 1925, and to the German, Jewish, Turkish and Serbian groups.
The barracks complex holds 120 barracks buildings. At,present, the labor section is
working on such interior furnishings of the barracks as beds, tables, benches, etc.
The project is intended for a major troop exercise area. Collective and individual
farms in the area have been advised to let their fields lie fallow after the current
harvest throughout an area of 1500 hectares.
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