SOVIET MILITARY INSTRUCTION IN BULGARIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000100030008-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 16, 2003
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: November 20, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECRET
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COUNTRY Bulgaria
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Soviet--Military Instruction in Bulgaria
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PLACE AC IRE
DATE AC UIRE
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DATE (OF INFO
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OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THEMEANINR OF TITLE IS, SECTIONS 703
AND 704, OF THE U,S, CODE, AS AMENDED, ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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REPORT
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1. Soviet infantry and motorized instructional units are installed at Shumen (now
called Kolarovgrad), where there is also a complete staff organization. This
old Bulgarian town R.,has been turned into a Soviet military instructional base,
meant to standardize Bulgarian armaments and to train instructor personnel.
2. Sere the new Soviet weapons are tried out. Here,also, instructors are trained
to go out to the diff
t
eren
Bulgarian garrisons to train troops in handling these
various new arms.
The Shumen (Kolarovgrad) base extends its activities over the entire northeastern
elope of the, Balkan Mountains, across the plain of th
D
b
e
o
ruja, and as far as the
port of Varna,(now called Stalin).
Also under the control of Soviet experts is the national General Direction of
Military Propaganda. This was recently established in Sofia. Further details
are'being..sought,
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