TROOP UNITS AND MILITARY INSTALLATIONS IN SIBIU

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010500110004-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2006
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: December 13, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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I I a l;.unaanisn officer candidate school
1About June 1951
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Ircaated in the former Imperial and ILoyal Austrian Cadet Lcucdemy, in a
a aarlec near the so-called 'amount; ',:nods on the : outh:cjoz;tern peri' oter of "Ibiu
It 35/R 20)., ilia the east side of the road to . oplacaa (K 3>J 19). 25X1
f icer candidates v.7~re between 16 and 20 years old
Courses for Yount? humanian officer candidates of all.
branches of service were continuously he].(: at the schools 25X1
the arrival of iZt riian officer candidates at the Sibiu ra"road
station in the fall of 1950.
2. The Rumaania:n military arsenal located northeast of t,'i,e officer candidate
and t': the rare side m' the road,. It wan an old installation v!!"' ich,
, modern
r,.a3ct;inery. 17:ie r: renal r::as to be moved to the
area of I'vri.t* (st 351', ta.9) . The arsenal r"rases, v ich were from
watchtowers, ',.id a r(1,-id frcntaf;e of about 150 meters and extended in depth
for about IOC) peter a It contained several iarre -.,or1~shop-1 i'.. e build inns n
the unloading of s Apments of damaged ;weapons
and vehicles at the Sibiu railroad station. *'ateriel requiring repair, which
was hauled from the station to the arsenal by caterpillar tractors, included
Tara"-,-e quantities of AP, tuns and field suns, a few heavy artillery pieces.
aana undet .x^:~i_ned quantities of trucks o f various types and tanks vrith daiaaaged
tracks anc", suspensions or writhoa.lt. tracks and suspensions. The tanks observed
tier only about It meters long;, had hot;ie wheels and track-supportint; rollers,
and mounted a rather lost,;, slit? gun barrel with a nuzzle brake with baffles ~
Overhauled weapons and vehicles were usuaallz! :i t i.1 pod away by the trainload
They always had, a new coat of paint, arid artillery 'feces wore equiy:s;ed with
new leather covers over muzzles and : reric'r,hlocks. the on- 25X1
draining of overhauled AA runs of a bout 50 mm, artillery, pieces of f ror . 100
to 120 mm on wheels with rubber tires, limbers, Bold kitchens aria trucks a
never saw tanks bein sit ;' ec out. The ar: erin1 was operated
by Iturnanifn ,;w iers and civilians, and I -T, personnel of Eumanian labor
ba Ltaliors,,
3. In ":':ay or Jur e 1951, for tY;e last 4,unania=n artillery units were observed
in a large 6uarrecks installation of four-story - ric'. builc".ings on the west
side of Vne ; azv3 to Cisnac ie (?,'. 35r~. 29). : Len leaving the billeting area
for field, Era i.,iirif', the troops 1yex equipped with artillery pieces of about
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 LOG rmti v.rith limbers drawn by teams of ,six hors each The artillery pieces
Traci short barr?el.s, protective shields and spoked wheels aith.out rubber tireso
gib Another barracks installation, ad, oin4n the above mentioned Artillery
flarracics to he south, quartered an undetoradned number of Rumanian troops
who wore berets. No sneci.i is information on these troops could be supplied
There were two more barracks ins i:allations on the road to flrasov (3R 31/X 3"r } a
one of 'Then was ,he so-called Cavalry arracks which quartered a mounted
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6. The forcer 'Toned Oar'racke in the northwestern sector of ,ibiu, w nich was
located on the cost .sank of the Ci`airt River and on the nor tit sit'o of the
.:;true leading to the Turnisor rorou h, had beH,n vacated bar Rumanian troop:,
about June i;?I'l snc was later reconditioned.
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a.ns ua`;.lat].on was 5 ntende-d to house the administration of several nearby-
factolio ; s,
;tntil Jun 1951
, the T.'ilitia headquarters was located on the main square
in the center of the city, opposite the Ca th'iolic church Offices and apartments
of securi ;:,' personnel were located en the former "chewis Lane, op, osite
t; e irls' secondary school, Security personnel wore army style uniforms
with r'.i Aht-bl.ite service color.
i o soviet troops were noticed in the city of I`>ibiu and its vicinity until
July l 9f L Ix locomotive engineer said that soviet troop trains had been conveyed
to w ester?n TT? raiiia between ''arch and '?av 1951.., 25X1
Soviet units were ;permanently garrisoned in Craiov3 (R 3 3 A 03
R.umani ans who were considered politically unreliable and:. member's of the
uri;;arian minority ware inducted irto special labor battalions for a t o-yea r?
period ratJY or than into regular troop units o Only ',:'ar't of the personnel of
the labor battalions wore uniforms;,.
lO , The pee'r;le Sibiu were cautioned not to ?' to remote localities and mountain
locises in the C a'" path? an ':.`.ts because of partisan acti-t itr.es tl'here o
3f Cot r?ent n This report substantially c on" inns information of Avr r'il 195L fr
concerning military installations in `.ihliu and their
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~t4'c Corir-en . IT.-IN ,^, ' emen supports previous %nforrr;ntion concerning
t e presence _of Ooviet troops, in Cr;tiovao
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