MILITARY RECRUITMENT PROGRAM IN BULGARIA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008500580010-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 27, 2000
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: September 6, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION Q Ir. t,aitc;L o ori.i 25X1A
CENTRAL NTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.-
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COUNTRY But 'aria
SURiEC' M li.tary Recruitment Program in
Bulgaria
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In From all indications, I:'ul-aria has begun to intensify its military recruitment
program. In aid-March 1951, members of the 1931 age group were required to
report to the militiry carnnaissi:-n in their areas for registration and physical
examination pr?=paretory to military service. In addition, the 1932 age group
is being partially called for registration and ex urination. The 1931 age
group and a portion of the 1932 age group were to be inducted into the
military service during, May and June 1951
2n Men of the 1930 ago group were registered and ex-mmined by a military
commission -"-n the spring of 1950. An unknown percentage of those men were
assigned to mili tary units,, while the remainder were assigned to the Trudovait
1c=her battalions arid sent to their home areas for trainln,,;. Those in the
1. tier cc.tet ony were to appear again before military commission boards in
March 1951 for physical examinat ons, and personnel qualifying were to be
assigned to military units in May and June 1951, together with the 1931
and 1932 age groups.
3,,' Military coritmiasion teams w::ra very active in western Bulgaria during March 1951,
They stopped over in the large district tons only long enough to complete the
registration and excni.neti on of the youth in the immediate area, and then
moved to the next 1G rge town. _ militari cot mission teamn was Petricb.
13 and 14 March. ruartered in the district school there., the commission was
composed of a colonel, a captain, a lieutenant, ca military doctor and a civilian
doctors On 5 March all youths of the 1931 age group from the village of
Leskovo, some 20 in all, reported to the ivi.lita ry conum+issicn in Gorna Uzhumaya.
This czll up was repeated throughout western Bulgaria, and presumably,
throughout all of Bulr ari a.
It is the practice to assign youths whose loyslty to the regime is questionable
to Trudovak labor battalions. Men Who had shown even the slightest unfriend-
liness toward the regi2te were sent to the labor battalions after a cursory
physical exe xLna.tton rather then to regular military units, Also included
in this category were gypsies and the physically unfit,, Now, however,, men
serving with the labor battalions are being re-examined and assigned to
regular military unitso
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The. great majority of youths of the 1929 age group from Pirin, Macedonia
had been assigned to the labor battalionse on completion of their tour
of duty most of them were assigned to regular military units which left
the battalions reduced to a minim=* In the villages of Gabrene and Baskalci
(sic) in the Petrich dintricto Dobri Laki in the Svet-:L Vrach district and
Simitli in the Gorna D2huzneya- district, there are only 6 recruits in the
labor batta].ionaohereaa there are 45 recruits in the regular zaLlataxy
unitso
Peen of the 1928 age group serving in the military service were informed
that they would be demobilized in March or early April 19514 As of M&Ym
however, none of the group had been demobilised and no further mention
had been made of prospective demobili.zatione
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