BARRACK CONSTRUCTION FOR THE RUMANIAN ARMY AND DANUBE-BLACK SEA CANAL WORKERS; OIL AND AMMUNITION DUMPS; RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006300450011-5
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: December 4, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
DATE DISTR_ 4 DEC 50
SUBJECT Barrack Construction for the Rumanian Army NO. OF PAGES 2
Oil and
and Danube-Black Sea Canal yJorkora;
&runition Damps; Railroad Construction
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
From 15 April 1950 to 20 July 1950 no" Rumanian Army barracks were being
k gilt by Sovromconstructi0 No. 7 at Basarabi. The barracks were nearly
completed in July at a cost of 91 million lei. Twenty-e:i ght one-story
buildings were constructed. They are as follows:
a0 Seven buildings with quarters for about 100 men in each building.
b. Two buildings will be used as offices for the Rumanian Army,
c,. Three buildings will be used as dining halls.
d. Five buildings will be used as depots,
o. Two buildings will have apartments for married officers and their
families.
f~, Two buildings will have apartments for unmarried officers?
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g. one building which vd.ll be used as a garage has a concrete floor agarage
is 100 meters long, 25 meters wide, and eight meters high. This will have space for 30 tanks.
2. The above barracks are located 400 meters northwest of the Basarabi r{Alroaadll
station, The 25 I(otorized Rumanian Brigade, commanded by Colonel Colgeag,
be quartered in the new barracks. This brigade has 25 medium tanks$ the
caterpillar tractor type with a non-revolving turret. The brigade also has
a small number of anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns, and machine guns.
3. In July 1950 a high ranking Soviet naval officer accompanied by Rumanian
Colonel Pilarinu, responsible for the construction of the military works in
the Constants area, and two Rumanian Navy captains arrived from Constanta
at IAsarsbi to inspect the progress of the work on the barracks. The officers
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found the work to be progressing slcwlya and gave instructions that e
barracks should be~completed by 1 August 1950-
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barracks were completed in May 190 at
Medgidia for Ruraanian tank and :1 gantry units
F?if%y, four buildings were constructed in Navodari for the works ?s of the
Da ibe-gladc sea canal These a? a one story brick buildings with tT:='m threes
or four apartments each,,
In April. 050 barrack eonstructio;1s (garages for tanks) began in the folr..0W-
K.at: pl?ac+b constaanta area at t cost of 300 million lei:
a, ;ear the village of Corbul de Sus.
b., Near the village of Vaalea Nertgra.
c7 Near the village of SchitulL
d0, Neer the village of Vile N7oii (sic).
e. At a site six to seven kil?ymetera northwest of Constants, and west of
the Constants.-0vidiu high7ayo At this place stood the tile factory
, of George M chael,, a Greelli:o
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, on five underground concrete dumpr~ in