ORDER OF BATTLE INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002601090007-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2005
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 28, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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Order of Battle Information
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This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
DEPORT 'NO.
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1. Prior to` January ht Tovak barrad6 eaat of Suk iod kl (N 4 . ~y. , ~ ~
`kilometer wee , of Sofia,, was c ~oupied by tY a . Tank Di iyi lion. In 1949;
about one
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qutt~tered in thin `baxia4- a .rim allat on I orr ~+erV ~?e Diu: or
their tank" unit iriclude,1 mainly elements whijh had frm FAzaa l k and
Stara Zagora to gu'ldiouo:..
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the 2 Tank Division was loaated in the orme:r? 'reserve o oer can a e
school, about seven ki .oznetere I:: athweet of Sofia,, on the west side of the road
from Knyazhivo to Gorna Bazya. In 19548 the barrackm installation ooneieted of
about 15 buildings including an unidentified number of multi-story structures.
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the tank unit-was- equ pped with ,W34 tans.
a me,,,,hanized regiment was
even on the road to r v sa - 5, E 24..4':4) prior to late April 1952.
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engineer regiment. The mechanized regiment wae"Aquipped with 30 model M-13 rocket
launchers; 10 of which were detached to the 1952 iay Day Review in Sofiei and were
auartered in the barracks instihll.ation of the 1 Guard Division southeast of Sofia.
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Prior to late April 1952, a motorized artillery regiment was stationed at Pleven
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18. In the summer of 1951, a Border Guard headquarters, which controlled the
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sector betweem Dragoman and Trekliano, was stationed in Trun. Border
sub-poste of between 30 and 60 men were located in several villages. At that
reen uniform of the Border Gu re-placed by the
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25X1 draft. Fe-y had to serve for three years. Border Guards doing Border Guard
duty were reassigned every six months. An NCO school of the Border Guard troops
was located in Sukhodol.
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