STATE CONTROLLED DISPLACEMENT OF CIVILIAN POPULATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500800041-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 2003
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: February 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT State Controlled Displacement
of 1:ivilian Population
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1. Undor the law, all peroonn wishing to change their place of runidonoo
in Bulgori.o, must have an identity card. However, a special permit,
issued by t1 opooial office of the militia in the district concerned,
must bo t;ouurud by any l3ulgcrian citizen who wiahos to move either into,
or out of, a fontior region.
In foot, regardloso of what the law says, moot of the Bulgarian population
has no liberty to change residence at all. This is true because no largo
a part of the population comes under the mllitiata classification of par-
dons "not faithful to the regime.1' Thin includes:
n, All persona in legal opposition between 1944 and 1947, the legality
of their opposition to the government making no difference whatever,
b. All pvroons brought before peop4ota tribunals, no matter whether they
were adjudged guilty or not guilty.
6. All persona whose property has been rationalized.
d. All puraora who have been in forced labor oampe or prisons, since
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C. 'All portions who, during recent years, have refused to enter collective
farms, i.e., the so-called "kulaks."
f. All persona directly related in blood to persons in the five oatogories
above listed.
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3. In cases wh"re there in urjrent need. for travel, persons in these categories
must present themselvez,before the local militia commander and explain the
reasons to him. They must also state the purpose of the trip, the means of
transportation, the exact itinerary, and the program planned for the period
away from home. In many cases the local militia commander telephones the
commander in the district to be visited and has the prospective host inter-
rogated, too. This unfortunate may then find himself reproached for receiving
in. his home an "enemy of the people."
4. The militia commander who has authorized the trip receives complete information
regarding everything done by the traveler. On his return, the latter must
himself explain again everything he has done. Otherwise, he gets into trouble
and may receive punishment.
~?. f:aa1: ncxcor:er to any vicinity, be it city or village, no matter wcother he is
living In .t. hotel or a. private home, must fill out a form. '1'h13 involves about
thirty questions, which include the name of the commander granting him permic-
si.on to travel, occupation, family, documents in his possession, and so on.
on the very day of arrival, the owner of the hotel or or the house where the
visitor is living must turn this form in to the police. This must be in
triplicate (-original and 'two copies). One is signed by a m1lit.a official and
returned, either to the proprietor or to his lodger.
6. on tho day when the traveler departs, this last copy Is returned to the militia,
With an annotation indl.ooting hour of departure, means of transportation, and
destination. Often there is a "control" visit between the hours of 1 a.m. and
4 a.m ? co as to mako sure the visitor is really in for the nli:ht.
. Persona who receive travelers without documents are subject to very heavy fines.
If thero 1:: any ground for suspicion, they are arrested.
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