FORTIFICATIONS IN THE DEVIN AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013200300006-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: August 18, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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FEB 1952 61-4AA
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INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
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Fortifications in the Devin Area
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DATE DISTR. 3E31": !august 1952
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
There are antitank barriers at positions one, four, and five kilomters from
Dospat can the road to Batak. The barriers consist of two c ment mounds in
permanent positions and a third cement object which can b~e!d into a
position to block the road. There are similar barriers beten the villages
of Zampral (RF-1958)1 and Nastan (RF-1955).
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in the fall of 1951, a unit of 200 men worked
a single trench had been con,
strutted perpendicular to the road connecting Borino andTesal? The trench
begins at Kartal hill and ends at the Bayir hills (Tepe Bayir). The trench.-is
approximately 1.5 meters deep and one meter wide. Machine gun positions, con-
strutted of tree trunks and dirt, are located at 100-meter intervals along the
trench.
for 20 days near Zmeitsa constructing trenches.. The trench, strengthened.
with tree trunks at certain places, is 1.8 meters deep and one meter wide;
it.extends from Karad.zha Dere hill (RF-0349), through Selim Otzovo (sic)
(RF-0449), to Koloskedik (RF-0550).8 50X1-HUM`
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Comment: Probably Zampral refers to Gut Sabral (N41k4 E2435) and
Kolosked.ik refers to Kalaus-Kedik (N4139 E2421) on the Deutsches Heeres-
kart. 1:100,000 series; Tesal is probably Chala (N4139 E2419).
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