SOVIET TROOPS IN THE BANAT AND CRAIOVA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008100850004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 1, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: June 26, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Rifle Regt Darrackn and i
the old Transylvania Barr
All vehicles of this unit
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.DATE PREPP.PED. vtC ?Tmln
ops have been stationed in Tinisoara (R 16,1T 91)
nioy were quartered in the former Rumanian 5th
.private houses, A larl-e Soviet unit noved into
AZS and the Lenau I3arrack i the fall of :.949.
'ere marked with a swallosi, In August 1950, the unit
2ger unit which arrived from an easterly T.-rection
estellten) white bear en its vehicles, The unit
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2, Prior to 15 April 1951, trl Soviet headquarters controlling all troops in
the Banat ws located on :no sralth side of Plata Libortati flaberty ;",cuare
opposite the former Primia (1.,ovA hall) At the headquar+-. s were three
Generals., me of whom wm1 two stars and the other tan one star each These
generals Imre still at ti! pont in Ipril 195L. Source did not know or any
inspections of the post 1) hizh-rarking noviet officers (2) 'le only knew
that one Ceneral i!tin), stayed in Rumania tenporz,rily in 1947. (3)
The Soviet military post leadquarters was in the former German past headquarters
buildt.T on Pariserstreel, Prior to February or !arch 1551, it was on Diaco-
novic 'Loge Street,
40 All 6oviet troops were trtered in permanent barracks installations and all
,Dff4cers in Private 11L_ s The officers had special passes granting them
Marty to move about .4 It Late 1950, entire residential areas were requisition,
(16 so that all officers v).ild be billeted in one area0 rest of the Sovie
t-cops were veteranss anO)iany of then wore war decorations 16 ras not
observed whether any Inv groups of recruits had arrived,
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The troops were equipped 11;1 both light and heavy tanks ,hey
were similar to tanks whid he had Observed with the Sovie o ,. _..g, ,Ie J. nal.
phase of World ar II0 The leavier tanks mounted a revolving turret and a gun
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withoot nuzzle brake. All of the toni's observed were marled 'ith a rod star
and a three-diEit number on their turrets, The tanks did not have AA oachin,
clans. Nouevor, the tr000s were erwipped nurerous AA ooins of about 76 Imo
without muzzle brakes. Some of these guns were permanently emplaced nt the \
neo airfield and neer the :Iontino 1:,00ds in Ti-isoara. everal 57-m Touns \
wore also observed, ;Th other artillery :ieces? rocket launchers, or Iwiavy
nortars were seen at the :lost. Teas of two soldiers each -000e reno.ely ocen
oarryinu a weapon consistior of a slio barrel, about two oeters lona with a
butt-like device on its onei and ccovas-coverod "oolt nochanism forwookl of
the butt. 11111111111111111111Lis 4ea:on produced a v,r,y shorn report when
it woo Sired at the rars!e near tha quntinE is)odsc
7. no large-scale maneuvers worn ohoor:reel durtnr 1,110 sonner and fall of
However, almost ever;., ot'.or day ?during the second half of /rar& 3-51; orainilc
exercises for rart of the troopo 'L'ron the fort, lastYno one whole night, -r1
held in the area toward 3acaloz (1Z 16/T 81). Cunfire from heavy tea:ens and
detonations wore heard from this oroa. Soviet tr000s were also seen l'actic-
ing street firino. with blank a',.nuni%ion in the outskirts of the cit:; in
1952,,
C. The Soviet troops in Tirisoara received ration su7lies, and pr ably, POL
supplies from the Rumanian authorities. There was no soviet supply adrinistration
A railroadran stated that the F;cv;et troops in Tio;soara rocefoed ore trainload
of fuel monthly
9c The Soviet troops in Tirlsoare and 75uzins were parts of the oaLe major unit.
141 April 1951!, the troops in Buziao moved, into low wooden barracks brildincs
newly constructed in the southresern sector of town, To billeting
capacity of these quarters was ro.ghly estimated at 1,60C troops. Ducias
residents stated that the weapons of the troops included tan