REPORTED SOVIET 'SPRING PLAN' FOR A FREE MACEDONIAN REPUBLIC COMPRISING PARTS OF BULGARIA NEAR THE GREEK-YUGOSLAV BORDER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04864A000100100042-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 11, 1999
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: March 16, 1950
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT N
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
25X17A2g
9121-1
COUNTRY Bulgaria stil DATE OF
INFORMATION It Feb ry =
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SUBJECT REPORTED SOVIET "SPRING PIAIV FOR A FRF. '
MACE )C IAW REPUBIdJ'C C '.RISING PAPTC? (7.e'
HOW Bt RIA NEAR THE GREEK-YiJGCElAV BORDER
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DATE DIST. o2,?' Mar,r,h
PUBLISHED Radio Broadcasts
WHERE
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NO. OF PAGES
DATE
PUBLISHED 16 February - 16 March S ?-~.---LANGUAGE Greek, Bulgarian, Serbocroat
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
OF TH HIN THE MEANING OF ESPIONAGE ACT 50
U. S. C., SI ND S2. AS M15SION OR THE REVELATION
OF ITS CONTAENTS IN ANY MANNER TO A SON IS PRO-
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMA :ON
During the period 16 February - 16 March 1950, available monitored broadcasts t, i' Wr ,'4
Satellite, Yugoslav, Greek, and Turkish transmitters include few and generally )-erip'hera
references to the Macedonian question.
"The Slav Plan to Create a Macedonian State"
An Athens broadcast of 9 March claims that there has been "a definite advance i -" ?1 ie senses
shay plan to create an independent Macedonian state," extending into 8ardar and A"egeer
Macedonia, "within the framework of a Balkan Federation.," Bulgaria Iii premier C ? venkov ke
said to be the originator of this plan which 'Vould first make Monastir (Bitol and .i.aa.tryv,
Salonika the capital of a Macedonian State with its southern front on the river A.Ua0,4on,,
The broadcast claims that Chervenkov is utilizing the KOEM which posa,e as the ' ?auni et
organization for Aegean Macedonia, " but which in fact "is a Bulgarian organize t io)n..
A 28 February broadcast by the clandestine Yugoslav Radio Sava reports, under a V ten,I I r v :
is said that there are daily infiltrations of plain-clothed Soviet units into 1 .lgar?ie , arse
that these units "are being sent to the Bulgarian border. There are a great nt tuber of armored=
cars. in Varna, and they are also increasing their air force. In soma months, t to Sts +a111
have about 1,000 planes in Bulgaria."
Terror and Denationalization in Pirin Macedonia
On the other hand, there are a fev reports to the effect that Bulgaria is purse ng poiiicy of
denationalizing Macedonians in Pirin Macedonia, Belgrade Is TANYD news service repcrt.a are 14
March that Macedonian bookshops have been closed down, and that "the Bulgarian Foreign Mlniatel
has begun asserting that an anti Bulgarian policy is being carried out in tho4 M !'J8+ 1rv)
People's Republic of Macedonia in order to Justify the denationa1 zrs { on polio3 in part of
Macedonia under Bulgarian rule."
On-22 February, Radio Sofia, criticizing a "series of weaknesses.. in the Warty Aorganize-
tion" in Pirin Macedonia, claims that although several bands of terrorists hav+ been ris-
covered and disarmed and some cases of Sostovism exposed, the Party u -3 "vigilann Ie taecome
active and have performed a large number of railway sabotage acts,"
Approved For Release 1999/09/01: CIA-RDP78-04864A000100100042-3