ARMY TRANSPORTATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008000300004-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 16, 2001
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: June 26, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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=COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Army Transportation
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2. The Bulgarian Arey uses motor vehicles, horse drawn carts, and $ in some
instancese pack horses for its transportation. The motor vehicles are
mainly new Russian ZIS, Molotov or GAZ types. There are also some new
Czechoslovak Skoda cars. The older vehicles are of German manufacture,
mainly Opel Blits, WV, or Mercedes, The army has a total of approximately
6,000 vehicles. In addition to these, in time of mobilization or of war,
there are plans for requisitioning all civilian cars belonging to various
cooperatives, bureaus and private citizens.
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All civilian vehicles in the country come under the control of the Ministry
of Transport through the Directorate of Government Automobile Transportation
(DAP), with headquarters in Sofia and branches in the various departmental
cities. Bulgaria has about 15,000 trucks in addition to those owned by
the army. A section of the Special ArAy Motorized Truck Regiment keeps a
log of all civilian vehiclespand$ in case of mobilization, it is from this
section that owners of the civilian vehicles will receive notification
of requisition.
The lack of spare parts for motor vehicles is critical. Sometimes a car
will be out of use for months waiting for a spare part; the government garages
often cannibalize for other cars.
5. The army school for drivers and mechanics is run by the Special Motorized Truck
Regiment. In addition each motorized regiment has its own short course school
to train drivers and mechanics; and in 1949 a government school for drivers
was started in Sofia, on the corner of Tsar Simeon and. Lomska Streets.
6. A major part of the regimental and divisional supply train is horse drawn.
In peacetime the regiments have a very small number of specially made
military vehicles, and in case of mar they count upon requisitioning of
peasants' horse drawn carts. Experience in past wars has shown that these
peasants' carts are not suited to military purposes as they are not strong nor
well kept up, and the harnesses are often faulty.
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For heavy artillery pieces the am horses of Banat and Hungarian
extraction are powerful enough, but there are not enough of these horses
for *13. artalery units? The local tUigarian-bradhorses 'are not strong
enough to work with artillery and are,eftin unable to pulle?iRinary
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