REPORTED LEGAL CHANGE IN LABOR CAMP ORGANIZATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500490028-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 16, 2003
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: May 5, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Reported Legal Change in Labor Camp Ortyaaization
COUNTRY Bulgaria
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DATE DISTR. May 1954
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REPORT NO.
"The Communist regime. in Bulgaria has liquidated labor cr.mps as such in the
country. '21aese'prisoners who were cons,Lnercd dangerous to the regime, the
Communists accursed of venous cri.rles-aA.d tric 1 in public courts but in most
cases behind closed doors. i ch persons received prison sentex pa renting
from five years to life and were sen'. back to labor cca?)c as p1iE?.sor,crs. FFor-
merly they had been kept as internees without any process of the lr_;r.
3. `A certain i,ercentrge of labor canno interne-,s here transferred to district
jails pending investigations. They are sti11 wraiCin!; for. their trials.
4. "A very small percentage of the internees wr.re rr 1 r -,:;cd r.' _ sent home to give
the impression that camps nad bean dissolved.
5. "There are known cases -:here internees, after being transferred to prisons,
were advised to accucc themselves of the crimes, or on, of the crimes, for
which the Ltete as accusing them. Such people were told b?untly that no
investigation would be made whether they had committed such a crime but since
they were }sown enemies of the reLir:e legal me:a:uc had to be found to deprive
them of their freedom. For months these people were pressed to admit such
crimes, and it is ki:ot:n that many of them did admit theta finally. They had lase
privilege of ehoor,:'nC the crime for which they sere eventually sentenced.
6. "Now labor camps cperate as before, but are considered to be corrective
institutions for criminal elem,nts only. No 'internees' are to be found there
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This report 1s for the v.,: within the USA of the Intelligence components of the Departments or
Agencies indicated above. It is not to be 'ransmittec overseas without the concurrence of the
orirrinnting noire through the rl sist::nt. Director of the O5ice of Collection and Disserninardon, UlA.
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