TELEPHONE INSTALLATIONS AT BUFTEA, PLOESTI, AND THE DANUBE DELTA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008700360002-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 21, 2011
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 25, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
CEN
LLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
U F R i REPORT
COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT Telephone Installations at Buften, Ploesti, and
the Danube Delta
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DATE OF
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to Buftea from other loceli.ties.. These spools were from a stock of
with 500 meters of cable on each spool. Similar cable spools were sent
from the Braila warehouse 12 spools of underground cable of size 101/61
the cables were to be used for secret and very 50X1-HUM
important wcrk in progress at a castle where General rntonescu formerly
had his headquarters. Communication installations at this site were
to be made underground and greatly expanded; sreviously telephone hire
had been strung on poles it was possible that the 50X1-HUM
Rumanian General Staff might move its headquarters to this castle if
Bucharest were bombed out.
Ploesti Circuit mansions
available from the Covurlui,, Futna and Tecuci areas. Although the
dispatch with all possible haste to rloesti all three millimeter Are
30000 kilo rams shied railroad and
trucks. the
communica on construction project lasted rom days; there were
12 railroad cnr loads or 120,000 Idlogra.?ns used by 150 specialists
from the telephone company. The project was to prepare the telephone
system for operation in the event of bombing, with the new installations
to -.e used should communications be disrupted between Bucharest and
Ploesti and other nearby localities whose circuits g;o through Ploesti.
material re uested was gre.:tly needed at the point of origin,
Communications installations in this region were completed in December
1950. The existing telephone communications from ":fantul Gheorghe-
Bulgari an frontier were originally scheduled for completion by the
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Rumanian Ari ra but because of the lack of army specialists, the project
was finally accomplished by telephone company specialists. Forty
railroad cars of material were used, including approximately 10100
oak telephone poles and the necessary wire. The telephone instruments
were not installed by telephone company personnel; this task was to be
undertaken by the Army utilising field telephones. The Army employed
10 workers and specialists as well as about 200 soldiers. The group
used tugboats, lighters and motorboats in the operations At one point,
several soldiers and civilian specialists were almost drowned because
of stormso Later, the civilians were rewarded for their exploits and
cited in the telecommunications bulletin published by the Ministry of
Coamnunicationsn
the following persons were in charge of communication
administration:
Mail Farsirotu
Marlu Alexandra
Nicolas Popov
Radu Gotta
Viorel Mateeacu
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