SOVIET AND RUMANIAN MILITARY ACTIVITY IN WESTERN RUMANIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000100010031-6
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 23, 1999
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: November 13, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION ?Q 9
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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PLACE ACQUIRED
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DATE ACQUIRED
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Soviet and Rumanian Military Activity in
Western'Rumania
Aug 53
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES. WITHIN THEMEANING OF TITLE 18. SECTIONS 793
AND 794. OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION REPORT NO.
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SOURCE This report conta1 unevaluated intelligence
information received through an untested source. The credibility of the information
and reliability of the source cannot be determined,
1. Since 5 Jul 53, the Rumanian railroad line Buzias-Gataia baoi been IFwlored to civilian
traffic. For army purposes a spur line runs from Gataia to ?Torma < and from Buzias
in'the opposite direction to Nitchidorf,
2. On 7 Jul 53 there were observed in Gataia station two large cranes mt nted on rail-
road cars and 12 carloads of bridge-building material, including giider:s and stringer--a
3, A Soviet transport command has been established in the fir.:it and wee =d class waiting
room in the Gataia station,
4, The Rumanian x'o,Uroad personnel in Gataia has been dismissed and re'pla .'ed by Russians.
Evert, the mai.nter personnel is now Russian. Rumanian per o el do not know what
kind of work fa going on. Rumanian peasants from Tormac, w ro came .to deliver grain
at C~atala, are very silent,
5. It is possible that a new airfield is being built in the area Tormac-Nitchidorf. Sov-
iet air persorunet. conducted many surveys in this area in the`epring of 1953, and
peasantr in the area received the order not to plough up their fields after the
harve.:t,
6, At Calnicr Airfield there is now the 1st Battalion of the 7th I',urraniann AA Regiment, with
three companies. Formerly, this battalion had only one company, while two other com-
panies were attached to the .2nd Battalion at firebul. There was an epidemic in these
two compar, s, and later they were attached to the it Battalion.
'7. The Brebul companies were reorganized with new men, and the 2nd Battalion is now at
that place. The 3rd Battalion is at Bocsa-Montana,
8, Each company in the 7th AA Regiment is equipped with four 45 mm g?u.rrr, and each battalion
has four machine guns on twin mounts. The current strength of each battalion is 250
to 300 men, belonging to the classes 1926 to 1929,
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