BULGARIAN CONSCRIPTION AND ENLISTMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002900460009-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 24, 2011
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: July 8, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

FORM NO. 51-QA
SEPT. 1948 50X1-HUM
INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL IN LkG1CE AGENCY REPORT
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COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Bulgarian Conscripti m and Enlistffent
PLACE
ACQUIRED
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT SO
U. S. C., at AND 52, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR THE REVELATION
OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON 15 PRO-
HIBITED BY LAW. REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
1. The 1928, 1929 and 1930 classes have been called up. Some members of the
1930 and 1931 class who have volunteered are students who have finished
high school and joined the Christo Botev Academy in order to complete
their military service before the normal call-up age of 21 and before
they go to college.
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
2. The Christo Botev Academy also contains a number of men who failed to
pass the entrance examination for the Vassil Levski Military School, but
who still wish to make the Army their career, or reach the higher ranks
of the Militia. There is keen competition for the limited number of
vacancies in the Vassil Levski School, but there is no limitation on
the numbers entering the Christo BotevoAcademy. Candidates for both of
these institutions have to be approved by the Communist Party, and to
be members of the Youth Workers Union (Rabotnichesko Mladejski Sayuz).
Courses last for 18 months at the Christo Botev Academy aria three years
at the Vassil Levski Military School.
3. All officers and men who had completed their military service received
new mobilization cards during the last three months of 1948. The following
changes in the mobilization cards were noted:
a.. Reporting centers were, in many cases, changed.
b. only the number and town of the mobilization sub-section was given,
with the date (after D Day) on which the holder should report.
(For Sofia, the barrack number, to which the holder should report,
was given).
c. The numbers of divisions,
new mobilization cards.
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