WARTIME T/O AND E OF BULGERIAN INFANTRY REGIMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000200040032-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 4, 2011
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: April 27, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Ma $ T/0 and E of Bulgarian
f atry, Regiment
DATE D I STR.a7 1934
TIN YNITIO STATIC. IITNIN TNI NIANINO 0, TITII 10. CICTIONS 701
714. N ?Me N.S. COOK. AS ANINISO. ITS TSAMMICSISII IC SIPS.
"CN M ITS C MIIIt. TOM NISSIPT S- AN 1NIANTNMIaQ PLUS. II
THIS Is UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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Regimental staffs
] commanding.officer: Colonel
.1 or 2 political otfis.rst lieutenant oolamsia
-l $troievi lomsndir ecntstrustion soiiiinsate=, ;f2IMpS
engineer officer): r jor or lieutenant colonel
1 regimental chief of staff: lieutenant colonel
1 operations officer (0.3): major
l!.ehief of instruction (construction section): major
Pellowing is the present T/0 of a Bulgarian Infantry Regiment, OR a yea'
. tooting:
The regiment has certain other staff officers, concerned with supply, etc.
b. The regiment is composed of three battalions. A battalion has the follow-
jng cottmissioned and enlisted personnel:
1 battalion staff (not otherwise specified)
2 or 3 rifle companies, 120 men each
3 or mare heavy machine gun companies
4 mortar companies, 50 men each
5 A?'sompenies, 50 man each
6 sommmtication platoons, 25 men each.
a. The infantry rifle company is composed of:
1 company commander
2, 3 or more platoons of 40 men each.
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d.., The heavy machine gun company is composed of:
1. company. cossrander
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2 or 3 p ?toons of 40 hen each
e. The.mortar company is composed of:
1 company commander
2 or 3:platoons of 17 men each.
Platoons normally consist of three sections. The section ordinarily
consist of. twelve men--in other words a kind of squad, rather then whet the
US Army would regard as a section.
2. Armament of the Bulgarian infantry section is as follows:
a. Rifle section:
1 light machine gun, Dikteriov, caliber 7.62
1 subbehine gun, Spegen, caliber 7.62
10 rifles, Vintovka, caliber 7.62
b. Heavy machine gun section:
1 heavy machine gun, Meksim Sokolov, caliber 7.62
1 machine gun, Spegen, 7.62
10 rifles, Vintovks, caliber 7.62
*._Mortar, seotion: .
1?2ight Soviet mortar, caliber 82 mm.
1_subpa,hi a,gun, Kartstehen Pistolet, caliber 7.62
1yifles, Yintovka, caliber 7.62
d. Seeto o!, battery:
1 'if gun,r3pvret, caliber 45 mm.
1 "AT ' rif lest; Dikteriov, as liber 14.'5 mm.
1 ;Mbma d}ire~,, ,Spagan , as liber 7.62
10 rifles, Yintovka," caliber 7.62 w
e. Theme isa iso a ba'ttsry of self-propelled guns (eas) hodr>ri Ira"
p mtedd,in . ix, armored ,pars., spps ntly.half-tracks..
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