MILITARY WORKS ON TURKISH FRONTIER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000100090055-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 27, 2000
• Sequence Number: 55
• Publication Date: December 30, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

TORN NU.
DEC 1951 51-
Approved For Release 2001/03/04: CIA-RDP81-01036R000100090055-2
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COUNTRY Bulgaria
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Military Works on Turkish Frontier
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(BY SOURCE)
DATE ACQUIRED
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DATE (OF INFO.)30 Oct 53
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
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I* During the summer of 1953, detachments from the Elkhovo Brigade of the
Bulgarian Labor Army were usy building artillery emplacements in
the fortified zone along the Turkish frontier.
2. Each of these emplacements consists of a tiro lar trench two meters in
diameter, with a conorate platform fc': a base. On one side.there' is an
opening for the gran. On each sine there are subterranean shelters for
the Artillerymen. These dugouts are three 'meters long, and one meter
wide, with a height, at the entrance, of 1.6 meters. Tice dugouts get
deeper toward the end. One end has a depth of 1.8 meters, the other
2.2 meters. Within the dugouts there are also niches for the soldiers
to use in case a shell explodes in the emplacement. At the and of one
of the pair of dugouts, there is an L-shaped transverse section, two
meters long by one meter wide, for a xnition storage. At both ends of
the dugout there is a coneorete pipe underground to carry off the water.
3. The shelters are made of bricks, laid lengthwise. The roof is brick
vaulting. It is covered with earth thirty-five centimeters thick and
masked with.sod. The floor is stamped earth.
4. These artillery emplacements are from three to eight hundred meters apart,
depending on the configuration of the terrain. The emplacements here
described are one and a half kilometers from thee, village of Voden, district
of Elkhovo, about thirty kilometers from the Turkish frontier.
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ENCLOSURE (A): Sketch, of Artillery Emplacement
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