BORDER CONTROL AT JIMBOLIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010500110005-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2006
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: December 13, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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T()PIC 1,order Control At Jinbolia
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LDATE PREPARED 13 December 1951
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l., :',rz.or to F) July 151, the only ;~il'i tGry personnel stationed in Ji
(y 7/T 52) were f unanian l order ! uard troops who wore army --style uuni orris
with green service color. Dne unit, about the size of a cormpany, was quarter-
ed in the Olinger :louse; t:rnther unit had about 40 horses; and a :mall detail
had 15 to 20 dogs. 1'o moto? vehicles were o1~,served with the .,order guard
troops vthnse mission was c)nfined to border control. In adcliton to the border
guard troor's, a detachment of "ecuri tate personnel wearing blue service color
was stationed in Ji.moolia.
2. The border area was suhciiv de;d into three zones, -.:ith the first zone extending
fron the Jir:holia-Conlosul are (Y 7/T 53) sector as far inland as the
Carpinis (i2 16/T 72) - Lovitn (Y 7/T 6L) line; and the second zone extending
from example, - front. Carpini:> ,.is far as the area west of Tirnisoara (R 16/T 91).
said that Arad (R 166' 16) was in the third zone, he borderline was
bloclhed by a bar'oed&-wire yet -.e vhich was parallel to a strip of land cleared
of vegetation and harrowed If local fai't:iers at regular intervals, Observation
towers were along the Runianiin side of the border. 11o field fortifications
and concrete hunkers F_ I On Yugoslav territory, the border
was blocked b:T ditches in ;h( area of I:larija (Y 7/T 61)
3. Up to the surer of 1950, Sov et soldiers were still observed in t+:e first
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border zone, particularly at lc,rpiny.s and Lovrln, out none acre novic
Carpinis in 1951, `Iowever, `_;ov et off icers occasionally come to the border
area. the noa:^-.st Soviet troooD units were tenting in the
area rent of Timisoar a between '-. celaz (R 17/T {~1) and the i_ehala borough
of Tinisoa.ra
Coram,;ent. The information tnr`1rt,:: a report of. June 1951
a large Soviet ter camp between T imi soar- and -O is a s
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