INFORMATION ON BULGARIAN ARMY OFFICERS FROM OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700110032-2
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: May 5, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
SUBJECT Bii.litary; Biographic - Army, officers
Sociological. - Publications
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper and monthly periodicals
WHERE
PUBLISHED Sofia
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PUBLISHED Dec 1S52 - Jan 1953
LANGUAGE Bulgarian
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IIJFOR'?fATION ON BULGARIAN ARMY OFFICERS
FROM OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS
i:arodn^ At.ni;;.., floe daily organ of the Dlinistry of Defense, edited by CoL
Petur Stanchev, often Lists the names of various army officers in Lts iscces,
atth^.ugh it never states their units.
In an erlitoriaL on 3 January i;'j3, it peones Fetsov the cor.~^mnrlin;; ~ffi.rer
of the outstanding company and as the officer who was propcaud fur a ;;uvern-
t^.ent award for the exce~lent mi'_itary and political training whic'.t his company
received.
Another article in the same issue lists Sr Lt Zvan Stefanov; chief of
poliiacal n:a ters rrukovodite] nr, nol.iticheskite zanatiya) in the N-podeLenie
unit X), as outstanding in his field because ite carries out his assi;;nment
we L'. This consists of training soldiers to become "disciplined and :ardent
pal?riuts, faithful and devoted until death to their Socin;.ist fat'x-riand and
to the Doviet Union." Tr: article also states that a chief of po_itical mat-
ters must train soldiers 'in the spirit of detestation and fiet?ce hate toward
the enemies of the I'atherLand." This arL-ic!e was written by ::er,ior LLeut=Want
B. Dimanov.
In another item, flag paper mentions that Lieutenan. Yari-noc i;as 'peen put
in charge of training a platoon of radio operators.
Another article states that not enough military personnel ?.:~.e subscriber.
to newspapers and periodicals during the last school year 1c:;~~.-52;,. The
at?t:icl.e adds that some political workers in a podelenie in which a certain
Dashev is the deputy commander for political affairs (z~nestniY,-'?.cm,tndir po
po!iticheskatr. chust) fire carefully studyin; the wort: e a depot;: ccm:aander
fur political affairs by order o?' Dashev. It is steted that Dashe?: told them
to read the arL-icle "The Duty and I7ork of Lhe Deputy Connnander for Political
Affairs in a Company" ("7,a zadachite i rabotata na z~mestnik-komandira po
politicheska chnst na rota") in one of the issues of the periodical Propa-
gandist i Agitator. To stress the importance of the pt?ess, the article says,
Dashev called a meeting of all deputy commanders for political affairs in
the podelenie and told them to enlist more subscribers to the BuL;;arian and
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Soviet press; and as a result of this meeting, ten times more subscribers to
Za tram mir za narodna demokratsi a (For a Lasting Peace, for a People's De-
mocracy were ~onnd than last year. The article states that tens of commanders
and soldiers subscribed to Bulgarski Voyn, monthly illustrated organ of the
Main Political Administration of the Bulgarian People's Army, and many ordered
Novo Vreme, organ of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party,
adHT~ezh, organ of Dimitrov's Union of People's Youth, and Kcmunist.
Another article states that one podelenie organized a meeting of platoon
agitators. The ca?anding officer and the representative of the political
section (politotdel) were present at the meeting. Officer Avgustinov spoke
on the duty of an agitator.
Captains A. Angelov and ISh. Petkov are the authors of an article in the
same paper on the study procedure in Bulgarian military schools.
Finally, Guard Colonel (Gvardeyski polkovnik) A. Rubochkin, in another
article states that Communists must always be the avant-garde of the masses.
This article appears under the serial heading; "We Must Learn From the Ex-
perience of the Soviet Union."
The January 1953 issue of Bulgarski Voyn contains articles by or mentions
of the following officers:
Lt Filip ftikolov, mentioned as giving a class on tank engines to a group
of students,
Col Ivan Khariev, writing about his reminiscences during World War II,
Jr Lt StoiJ Naydenov, author of the article "Cur Weapons."
Officer Koatov, mentioned in the article "Our Weapons".
Sr Lt Georgi Angelov, author of the article "Advice to the Novice Skier."
The December 1952 issue of Bulgarski Voyn, No 11-12, mentions the follow-
ing officers:
Officer Velikov, inventor of a device for training pilots.
Copt Petur Gikov, author of the article "Field Training" (Stroeva podgo-
tovka).
Jr Lt Georgi Stoynev, photographed with his platoon (photograph accom-
panies Gikovs article).
Col Yanko Dimov, writing about his reminiscences during World War II.
Lt Nikolay Andreev, author of the article "With the Cavalry".
Senior Lieutenant Khadzhiev is mentioned in Andreev's article as a win-
ner in a DGSO (Voluntary Organization for Defense Cooperation) spring horse
show. _,
Lt Nlkola Marchev is mentioned in Andreev's article as a cavalry platoon
leader.
Sr Lt Ivan Paunov, author of the article "In Front of the Map of the
Fatherland."
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Sr Lt Vicho Uzunov, mentioned in Paunov's article as instructing cadets
at the "Vasil Levski" Military School.
Lt Dimitur ftenchev, author of the article oa classrooms in officer Illiev's
nodeleaie.
Officer Georgi Mites is mentioned in Nenchev's article as teaching in the
classroom where the history of the Communist party of the Soviet Union is
taught.
Lt Petko Ignatov is mentioned in Nenchev's article as decorating the
classrooms of officer Illiev'c podelenie.
Mai Petko Simeonov, author oP the article on the cultural activities organ-
ized by the Main Administration of the Labor Service (Glavno upravlenie na
Trudova povinost).
Officer Stoyanchev's labor podelenie is mentioned in Simeonov's article.
Sr Lt Kos'o Khadzhiev, author of an article on drivers of military
vehicles.
. Officer Spasov is mentioned in I4iadzhiev's article.
Ma,j Gen Grigor Popov is mentioned in Hhadzi:iev's article as visiting the
podelenie in which officer Spasov is serving.
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