53RD MECHANIZED REGIMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000200080011-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 15, 2011
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: July 6, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT 53rd Mechanised Regiment
DATE DISTR. v
0 CUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STALLS. WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 14. SECTIONS 798
AND 7S4. OF THE U.S. CODE. AG AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION as Rays.
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO ON RECEIPT My AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
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1, She 53rd Mechanized Regiment is stationed at the Proletarul Barracks In
t2andarei. _, She commander is Col. Octavian I. Andresen; the s4~nts are
1fa 3or Teofia. Bogdan and Arcadia Seeusen. *s of April 1954 its strength
was 57.offieers, 129 non-cons and 1,064 men.
2. The regiment is divided into three battalions of three companies each, each
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company being divided into three platoons,
gasiplatont aopaedical platoon;
gun platoon; an accompanying gun platoon; a
a unit (Abteilung) for political propaganda.
3. There are four accompanying guns, 75 -. The 1st Battalion has twelve T-34
tanks; the 3rd Battalion has heavy mortars.
4, The regiment wea organized in 1952-1933 and is made u of men of the classes
frm 26 to 1932. It is fully aotrized.
5. The aim wear khaki s4oulder boards, with dark red decorations and black insignia.
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