THE 466 AUTONOMOUS MILITARY MARINE BRIGADE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005000320007-8
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 9, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT The 466 Autonomous Military Marine Brigade NO.01=PAGES 2
COUNTRY Yugoslavia
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1.
The 466 Autonomous Military Marine Brigade, with headquarters at Kumbur on
the Bey of Kotor? is subordinate to the Split Naval Command. Its structure
is as follows:
3 Marine infantry battalions
1 artillery unit, comprising 3 batteries and 1 anti-aircraft battery
1 chemical warfare platoon
1 82 mm. mortar unit
1 120 MIL mortar unit
1 communications company
2. The strength of the brigade is 1,600 men. Each battalion, numbering
approximately 120 mens is divided into three companies and one separate
platoon. The artillery command, when at full strength, has 600 men.
A battery numbers approximately 100 men and a mortar unit 60 men.
The enlisted men of the battalions are armed with German Mauser rifles,
and each company has four ftSchwartzlose" or Czech Zbrojevka machine guns,
The non-commissioned officers are equipped with Soviet automatic weapons
and the officers with pistols of various types. Each battery is equipped
with four German 75 mm. gune, and the anti-aircraft battery baa four German
35 mm. guns. The 82 MM, mortar unit has four mortars; the 120 mm.unit,
although officially designated as such, has not yet receiVed its mortars.
All batteries, as well as the mortar units, are under the authority of the
artillery commander, who is in turn included within the organizational
structure of the brigade.
The brigade is equipped with seven German motor boats, which travel at a
speed of 20 knots per hoer, and are armed with two double-barrelled machine
guns and one light 25 mm. cannon. when maneuvers were last held the
brigade was supplied with an Italian motor-ships which accommodated between
600 and 700 men. Trucks are used to transport food and other organic
supplies.
The brigade comprises the following personnel and sections:
a. Personnel:
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Lt. Colonel Drago Zivkovic. Formerly
a laborer and a partisan, he is about to
be proclaimed a national hero.
Political Commissar Lt. Colonel Mane Kecman, a former partisan.
Born in Banja Luke.
Chief of Staff
Artillery Commander
Adjutant
Other officers
attached to HQ.
Major Benue'.
Captain Petrie, a Bosnian.
Second Lieutenant Ferdinand Pinteric,
formerly a clerk.
Second Lieutenant Tonko Zaputovic
Platoon Leaders: Vlado Kruzicevic
Zivorad Antonio
b. Sections and Section Chiefs:
General Section
Chief of KOS
KC S Staff
Chief Quarter-
master
Assistant
Quartermaster :
Second Lieutenant Ivan Zmago
Lieutenant Bozo Rakocevic
Second Lieutenant Proster Deskovic
Second Lieutenant Marko Marinkovic
Lieutenant Dujo Kovacic, native of Split.
Platoon Leaders - Pavle
Mancev
Bosko Karijevski
c. The leading officers of the battalions and
Commander, 1 Battalion
Political Commissar,
1 Battalion
Commander, 2 Battalion
Commander, 1 Battery
Political Commissar,
1 Battery
Commander, 2 Battery
Commander, 3 Battery
Political Commissar,
.3 Battery
Brigade Secretary of
SKOJ
batteries are:
: Captain Bozo Borojevic.
Captain Djuro Vieekurna, a Croat.
: Lieutenant Bozo Belie
: Second Lieutenant Predrag Hercegovac,
a non-Communist; He has asked to be
demobilized.
: Standard Bearer Voja Milosavljevic,
a native of Nis.
: Second Lieutenant Drago Kocevar
: Second Lieutenant Lazar Kostoleki, a
Macedonian. Member of the Yugoslav
Communist Party.
: Second Lieutenant Avgust Glavduric,
native of Split.
: Second Lieutenant Miro Sekulic.
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