RUMANIAN COASTAL DEFENSE COMMAND

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001600070008-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2005
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 23, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Rumania
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This Document contains Information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within tbamean-
lag of Title 16, Sections 783 and 794. of the U.S. Co, deM
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1. Location: The command is located in the building at No. 16 Ovidiu Plaza in
Constanta.
Commander: Colonel Stanescu.
Political Commissar: Major Ionescu.
The General Staff is organized similarly to that of a large unit.
2. The command has under its orders the entire coastal defense systean, composed of:
d alert networks
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coastal batteries, fortifications, observaion an
The entire shore of the Black Sea is divided into several sections called
Maritime Sectors. They are:
1 Maritime Sector - Suli.na: includes the coast from Sulina to Sfantu Gheorghe.
2 Maritime Sector - Sfantu Gheorghe: includes the coast from Sfantu Gheorghe to
Mamaia.
3 Maritime Sector - Constanta: includes the seacoast from Mamaia to Constanta.
4 Maritime Sector - Mangalia: includes the seacoast from Constanta to Mangalia.
3 Maritime
sectors located in theStowns?ofThe
commands
Sulina, Sfantu Gheorghe and Mangalia.
4. Organization of Maritime Sectors: Each Maritime sector has a similar organization.
The equipment varies and consists of guns of all calibers, between 75 n and 405 mm.
A Maritime Sector is composed of: one coastal artillery regiment, one antitank gun
company, and one company of 814 mm caliber mortars,
5. Organization of the Coastal Artillery Regiment: three coastal artillery companies,
one antitank company. The artillery company is composed of three batteries with
four guns in each battery. The guns are 75 mm caliber Skoda type. The mortar
company has four mortars of 81.4 mm caliber, of the Resita type. The antitank
thare em able installed
companies s within the beeach maritime aches. This makes sector
to ? intervene zone
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vicinity of
enemy landings,
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6. The artillery equipment is of various makes: Bofors, Schneider, Skoda, Krupp, and
Builov. Some of the ecpLipnent is either worn or old. The Soviet advisor to the
Navy Command promised, during an inspection of the coast, that the old equipment
would be replaced with new material sent-by the USSR. The Soviet advisor was in
charge of supply and maintenance of arms.
7. Some of the officers of the coastal ba,~~~ries~ are ~ artillery
New artillery officers are trained at
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