MISCELLANEOUS MILITARY INFORMATION

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• Publication Date: December 7, 1964
• Content Type: REPORT

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This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning. Of: the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorizeenersOn is orohibited by law
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three
reports containing information on the following:
a. Organization and Personalities of the Rumanian Militia.
An 11-page report on the training, organization and
activities of the Militia.
b. Regimental School at Arad for Noncomthissioned
of the Engineers' Corps.
A four-page report on training.
c. The Rumanian River Fleet.
three-page report containing miscellaneous
Officers
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: Miscellaneous Information on the
Rumanian River Fleet
1. From late 1957 until late 1958, the two naval training bases in
Rumania were situated at Mangalia (N 43-48, E 28-35) and Tulcea
(N 45-10, E 28-48). The Tulcea base was used for training non-
commissioned officers (NC0s) (sergenti and cartnici), and at times,
absorbed as many as 11 companies of trainees. The duration of
instruction at the Tulcea base varied from two months for basic
training to one year for various professional courses, which were
attended by personnel of the Black Sea and the River Fleets.
2. In late 1958, all men and equipment of this base were transferred
to barracks in the northeastern suburbs of Braila (N 45-16,
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E 27-59), where a Soviet armored unit had been stationed until its
withdrawal from Rumania in mid-1958.
3. From early 1959 until mid-1960, an ammunition depot of the River
Fleet, which was used for storing small arms ammunition and partic-
ularly artillery shells, was situated at Galati (N 45-27, E 28-03),
near Dealul Tiglina. A unit
composed only of
an administrative platoon and a guard platoon, commanded by a
captain, was in charge of this depot. In mid-1960, the General
Staff ordered the liquidation of this depot, and its men were trans-
ferred to other units or discharged. The general disbandment of
the River Fleet was begun at this time.
4. In mid-1960, the following units were stationed at the River Fleet
base in Giurgiu (N 45-53, E 25-58):
a. Headquarters of the River Fleet.
b. A flotilla of river monitors, comprising eight boats. One boat
served as a floating barracks and the rest, which were numbered
consecutively from 203-209 (or 303-309), were armed and ready
for action.
C. A reconnaissance flotilla of about twelve high-speed motor boats.
d. A. rear unit for supplying, maintaining, and guarding the harbor.
5. In mid-1960, four of the river monitors had already been dismantled
and their equipment had been sold as scrap. The entire river moni-
tor system was to have been liquidated by the end of 1960.
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Rear Admiral Simion (fnu), the commander of the fleet base at
Giurgiu who actually commanded the River Fleet, was to have arrived
at the fleet headquarters in Constanta (N 44-11, E 28-39) to direct
the fleetls disbandment. The Danube port installations and the
reconnaissance boats were to have been transferred to the Frontier
Guard Troops (Graniceri Fluviali).1
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tnis was one measure of limiting the Rumanian Armed
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: Regimental School at Arad for Non-
commissioned Officers of the Engineers,
Corps
1. In late 1962, the Engineers' Corps battalion stationed at the Citadel
in Arad had a regimental school for its noncommissioned officers,
which served the 11th Nechanized Infantry Division with headquarters
at Arad. The school's courses, which were held once a year, lasted
six months, so the school functioned only six months each year.
Trainees for the school's courses were drawn from the division's
four regiments, including the regiment stationed at Arad and another
at Oradea. About 60 trainees attended the course in 1962.
2. Trainees entered the school after completing their first five months
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of military service in the Engineers' Corps. About 20 percent of
their time was devoted to theoretical study, while the other 80 per-
cent was spent in practical training. The first six hours of each
day, from 0700 to 1300 hours, was devoted to theoretical and practical
study, and the rest of the day was spent listening to political
lectures, doing homework, and participating in sports and cultural
activities.
3. The first month of the course was devoted primarily to parade drill.
During the first two weeks, called perioade individuola, the trainee
gave commands to himself and then executed them. During the
following two weeks, each trainee was given the opportunity to
command a section of his colleagues, a system referred to as lectie
de metodica. Trainees spent three hours a day at parade drill and
used the rest of the time to learn the use of small arms, standing
orders, fundamentals of demolition, and fortifications.
L. During the second, third, fourth, and fifth months, the trainees
studied subjects directly concerned with the Engineers' Corps.
Training was given within the section during the second month and on
the platoon and company levels in the subsequent months. With only
two to three hours a day devoted to parade ground drill, they spent
time on the following other subjects: mine fields, four to seven
hours a week; demolition, four to seven hours a week; fortifications,
about seven hours a week; road-building, four to ten hours a week;
pontoons and wooden bridges; topographical maps; technical instruction
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to acquaint the trainees with the heavy equipment used by the
Engineers' Corps; chemical warfare (defense), about two hours a
week; and overcoming obstacles, primarily water. The last month
of the course was devoted to individual study and preparation for
the graduation examinations, as well as to the examinations them-
selves. At the end of the course, the trainees were examined by a
committee headed by Lieutenant Colonel Mihailescu (fnu), the chief
engineers' officer (sef serv. geniu) of the division's headquarters.
Graduates were promoted to the rank of sergeant and were then posted
to various bases to instruct new recruits.
S. The trainees studied the following mines: TMD-44, an antitank mine
in a wooden case with a gross weight of about 12 kilograms and
containing four to seven kilograms of trotyl; TM-46, an antitank
mine with a metal case weighing nine kilograms; PM-6, an antipersonnel
mine in a wooden case; and POMZ-2, an antipersonnel mine in a metal
case. When laying the mines, the trainees were required to achieve
the following speed: TMD-441 twelve minutes for one man; TM-461
eight minutes for one man; PM-6, three minutes for one man; and
POMZ-2, four minutes for two men. The general width of an antitank
mine field was 100 meters, with a distance of 15 meters between each
mine. The length of the field depended on the number of mines at
the disposal of the mine-laying unit. During one exercise, within
one hour and 50 minutes, the trainees laid a field of TM-46 mines
in an area of one square kilometer, which was contaminated with
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various chemicals.
6. The trainees studied techniques in the demolition of earthworks,
wooden structures, metal structures, and concrete structures.
Most of their time was devoted to theoretical study of the subject
of demolition, and practical exercises were executed only against
earthworks and wooden structures. A simulated exercise in bridge
demolition was executed on the railroad trestle over the
Mures River at Arad, which was 300 meters long. The entire exer-
cise, including the laying of charges and the simulated destruction
of the bridge, took about six hours.
7. The trainees also learned to construct firing positions for
individual soldiers and vehicle trenches. In road-building, the
trainees spent most of their time in theoretical study and only
one practical exercise was carried out during the course. On this
occasion, the trainees laid a road of logs through a forest, over
which 12 trucks were then driven to test its quality.
8. The trainees learned to construct bridges, both pontoon and wooden,
primarily for the passage of personnel. During 1962, the trainees
built only one bridge for vehicles, a wooden bridge 25 meters long
and four-and-one-half meters wide. A piledriver and a mobile crane
were used in the bridge's construction.
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: Organization and Personalities of the
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1. In 1956, the Rumanian Militia was organized on the basis of the admini-
strative division of the country. Each province had a provincial
headquarters to which the various district headquarters were subordinate.
Each district headquarters was responsible for a group of settlements
or, as in the case of Bucharest, a specific, densely populated urban
area. Because of the population dispersion in rural areas, groups of
four or five settlements (cOmuna) each had their own militia station,
comprising between two and five militiamen. The number of militiamen
at each station was determined by local conditions and the nature of
the local population, rather than by the number of inhabitants of the
place in question. At places where the people were known to be trouble-
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makers or at major traffic junctions, the number of militiamen was
greater than at other places, and the commanding officers held the
rank of second lieutenant, as opposed to the usual rank of sergeant
major or staff sergeant.
2. The Baia Mare provincial militia headquarters, the district head-
quarters, and the local militia station of the province were
situated in Baia Mare itself. On the other hand, only the district
headquarters and the town's militia station were situated in the
province capital of Satu Mare. Both offices occupied the same
building, which was situated between the post office and the court-
house. The district militia headquarters, such as in Satu Mare,
employed several dozen persons, while the local militia headquarters
had a larger staff. In Satu Mare, about 180 persons were employed
in various other militia functions in the town, and about 100 were
members of the guard section. In order to insure efficient control
of urban areas, all district capitals were divided into zones,
usually about ten, each of which was commanded by a noncommissioned
officer (MOO) who controlled the activities of those persons
"responsible for the various houses", that is, who kept lists of the
occupants of each house in their charge. The provincial and district
headquarters included departments which controlled the activities of
the various zonal urban stations and local rural stations.
3. The organization of the Satu Mare district headquarters was typical.
The commanding officer, a major, was assisted by two captains, one
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a deputy commander for operations and the other a. deputy political
commander. The headquarters included the following sections:
a.. An economic section, which comprised industrial, commercial and
agricultural branches.
b. An investigations section, which had no subsections but worked
closely with the other headquarter's sections. Its commanding
officer also served as liaison officer with the Securitate.
c. The traffic section, which had branches for licensing and traffic
supervision.
d. The criminal section, comprising sections for morals and property,
and a laboratory for photography and forensic preparation.
e. The guard and public order section, composed of beat duty
personnel and patrol duty personnel. The zone commanders, who
had overall command of the lists of residents, were also attached
to this section.
f. Passport and alien control section, composed of two branches, one
dealing with passports and the other responsible for the surveillance
of foreign visitors. This section also worked closely with the
Securitate.
g. The political section, which was responsible for the political
indoctrination of cadres. Its commanding officer maintained close
contact with the Securitate and fulfilled a checking function
within district headquarters.
Ii. The population register office (BIEP).
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4. The militia had no administrative divisions of its own, such as
stores, transport, or financial departments. It was served by the
corresponding organs of the Ministry of the Interior, which was
actually controlled in each district by the Securitate.
S. The only vehicles at the disposal of the district militia headquarters
were the district commanding officer's car and a patrol car. When in
need of more vehicles, the headquarters borrowed them from one of the
nearby industrial plants or companies. However, if no vehicles were
available, the militia had to use public transport and pay for it in
full.
6. The various militia units communicated over the regular telephone
network run by the postal authorities. When this system was not
suited to the militia's work, the courier service of the Ministry of
the Interior carried out internal communications. The couriers, who
also served the Securitate, travelled in pairs all over the country
by train; a separate compartment in the first car of all trains was
reserved for them. They received all classified mail in sealed
pouches at each railroad station and also delivered classified mail
to the local militia personnel in the same manner. When classified
mail arrived at the district headquarters for an outlying rural
militia station, the latter was telephoned and had to send someone
to collect it.
7. Militia cadres were trained at a number of special schools. A school
at Oradea prepared militia constables in a six months' training course.
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Persons earmarked for specialized functions in the militia underwent
an additional six months of training at the school. There were even
more schools for officers and NC0s, as follows:
a. NCO schools, in which the courses generally lasted one year and
the trainees acquired specialized training. Graduates were
appointed commanders of rural militia stations or commanders of
urban zones.
b. Officers' schools, which lasted one year. The graduates received
the rank of second lieutenant.
c. Schools for senior officers, which catered to officers with the
rank of captain and above.
8. Completion of one of these courses did not automatically contribute
to a militiaman's promotion or entitle him to a higher salary.
Militiamen had to serve a minimum of five years between each promotion
in rank.
9. Wages were determined by function and seniority rather than by rank.
The base salary of a new recruit was about 700 lei, and that of a new
second lieutenant, about 800 lei.
his function and seniority, could
salary for a major was 1,800 lei.
A lieutenant's pay, depending upon
reach 1,100 lei, and the maximum
Militia sergeants were reluctant
about being promoted to commissioned
decrease in pay due to their lack of
10. Uniforms were distributed once every
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seniority as commissioned officers.
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justified this, most officers found ways to take advantage of this
arrangement.
11. In school at the age of 14, all Rumanian boys and girls received an
identity card on the basis of their birth certificate and the
marriage certificate of their parents. The youngsters filled in
forms for the population register; thus the militia could check
the documents of the children's parents. The BIEP card contained
all the personal details appearing on the identity card. If a
citizen lost his identity card, the militia issued him a temporary
certificate, valid for three months. During this time, the militia
investigated the matter and, if nothing suspicious was revealed as
to the circumstances in which the card was lost, the loser was fined
50 lei and issued a new card. When a person was given a new document
to replace an identity card, a new card was also opened under his
name in the BIEP, which mentioned the fact that a card had been lost.
The old BIEP card was attached to the investigation results and
together they constituted a 'lost identity cardu file, which was
stored in a special archives at the Ministry of the Interior.
12. In 1954, employees of the Ministry of the Interior were given a wage
supplement in the form of various food products, such as oil, coffee,
and sugar, thus saving living expenses. These commodities were
distributed in packages whose contents varied according to the number
of persons in the employee's family. However, after 1954, the system
was replaced by payment of a cash supplement, known as Ordin 50,
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which was paid separately from the regular paycheck. A married man
with children received a supplement of 200 lei a month.
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a. Lieutenant Major Aurel Burdan, who was in charge of agricultural
matters and flour mills at the economic section at Baia Mare
provincial militia headquarters.
b. Major Valeriu Chirculescu, commanding officer of the Satu Mare
district militia since 1954.
c. Captain Ion Ciobanu, commanding officer of the guard section at
Sabu Mare district militia headquarters since 1953.
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d. Captain Dane (fnu), commanding officer of the administration
section of the Satu Mare district Securitate headquarters since
1953.
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e. Lieutenant Major Debrecen (fnu), deputy commander of the cadre
section of the Baia Mare provincial militia headquarters.
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f. Captain Gheorghe Ghighulescu, deputy political commander at
Satu Mare district militia headquarters since 1950 and responsible
for cadre affairs for Moldova region
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Noise Grossfeld, commanding officer of the criminal section at
Baia Mare provincial militia headquarters until 1958, when he was
appointed director of the commercial department at the Provincial
State Textile Trade Company (IGRTI).
h. Colonel Iosef Hutiral commanding officer of the Cluj Province
militia for many years.
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i. Lieutenant Augustin Justin, commanding officer of the political
section of Satu Mare district militia headquarters from 1952 until
1957, when he was transferred to the Baia Mare provincial militia,
where he had served before 1952.
j. Lieutenant Major Alexandru Nagy, commanding officer of the economic
section at Satu Mare district militia headquarters since 1959.
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k. Alexandru Pop, a major and head of the Securitate in Satu Mare
from 1948 until 1963, when he became director of ICTRI.
1. Retezat (fnu), a major and head of the Securitate for Baia Mare
province from 1949 until 1960, when he was appointed director-
general of ICRTI and began gathering a group of former Securitate
men about him.
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m. Lieutenant Major Valentin Robas, head of the cadre section at
Baia Mare provincial militia headquarters, where he personally
handled the recruiting of cadres.
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n. Lieutenant Major Salajan, commanding officer of the investigations
section of Satu Aare district militia headquarters since 1957.
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o. Major loan Sermasag, commanding officer for the Sighet district
militia since 1960 and previously deputy commander at the
Satu Mare district militia headquarters.
p. Lieutenant Major Zamfir (fnu)? commanding officer of the traffic
section at Satu Mare district militia headquarters until 1959.
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