MANEUVERS OF 3 VIDINSKI INFANTRY REGIMENT AND 3 ARTILLERY REGIMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R015000160006-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: November 21, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
CD NO.
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT maneuvers of 3 Vi.di,nski Infantry
Regiment and 3 Artillery--Regiment
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE
ACQUIRED
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM 15 PROHIBITED.1
25X1
1. At the end of August 1952, the Bulgarian 3 Vidinski Infantry Regiment and 3
25X1 Artillery Regiment, both from Vidin, held maneuvers in the area of the villages
of Vidbol, Vidin province, and Tsar Petrova, Kula province. Attached to 3
Artillery Regiment were eleven T-34 tanks from the tank battalion at Lom and
an automatic rifle platoon. The regiment)to which the rifle platoon belongs
is not known) however, after the maneuvers, it remained at Vidin.
2. Three high-ranking Soviet officers, two in civilian clothes and one in uniform,
participated in the maneuvers.
STATE
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DATE DISTR. 21 November 1952
NO. OF PAGES 1
NO. OF ENCLS.
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
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