MILITARY ACTIVITY IN THE BITOLJ AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000900390002-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 20, 2011
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 19, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUINTRY Yugoslavia
SUPJECT Military Activity in the
Bitolj Area
ORIGIN
DATE:
DIST. September 19415
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1. on 5 June 1947, one brigade of the Yugoslav 3rd Armored Division mod to
Bitolj from Prilep. The following vehicles were counted as they entered
Bitolj:
a. 12 heavy tanks Joseph Stalin type; round turret with one
long barrelled gun (caliber unspecified),
broad and squat. Khaki-colored paint
recently applied.
b. 24 armored cars One ('I) turret, with gun 1.66 meters long
(caliber unspecified),
a. 25 troop-carriers Open trucks, with armored sides. Each
truck carried 12 soldiers with their equip-
ment, and one heavy mortar (caliber un-
specified).
All the trucks and vehicles had a red star on either side, with the
colors of the Yugoslav flag (sic) and a small star to the rear.
2. On 9 June, about five large (unspecified) caliber guns arrived at B?tolj
coming by road from Prilep. These guns were towed by tractors. On 10
June, the same guns were moved to previously prepared concrete and rock
emplacements, in the hills between Dobroveni and Skocivir, facing tgwards
Greece. After the guns had been moved into position, the tractors 1githdrew
to Dobroveni.
3. Additional fortifications in the zone between Medzedli and Kajmakcalan,
which had been under construction for two months, were completed by -early
June. Trenches have been dug, and machine-gun emplacements construct-Td of
reinforced concrete. Every group, composed of three such emplacemea"bs, is
protected by barbed wire and mines thirty yards in front of it.. Anti-aircraft
guns, mostly of 20 rmn. light caliber type, have been placed in rook and
concrete emplacements in thevillages of Medzedli, Dobroveni, Skooivh , Bao
and Brod. Ammunition pits, measuring 3.5 by four by two meters, have been
dug near the emplacements. Supplies and ammunition are brought up by two
trains a day from Bitolj to Kenali, and are distributed from Kenali by truck.
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