ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF NINE BULGARIAN NEWSPAPERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700130018-6
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• Original Classification: C
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 26, 2011
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: August 21, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
SECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Sociological - Press, newspaper organization
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily and weekly newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Bulgaria
DATE
PUBLISHED 1953
LANGUAGE Bulgarian
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ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF NINE BULGARIAN NEWSPAPEP$
ff the 20-odd Bulgarian newspapers received in FDD, nine carry
a statement (equivalent to a IS newspaper masthead) defining their
internal organization in terms of their administrative and editorial
departments. The following gives the organizational details of the
newspapers as printed in the respective publications during 1953.
Of particular interest is the organizational structure of Za
Kooperativno Zemedel+ (an agricultural paper). It is unique in
that?it has four departments that appear to be designed for polit-
ical orientation, namely, the Propaganda Department, the Mass-
Political rs artment, the Peuilleton Department (which only Rabot-
nichesko Delo and Za Kooperativno Zemedelie have), and the Rumor
and Satire Department. The unique fact of the e%isterce of four
such departments in one paper may reflect the special importance
to Bulgarian Communists of the political indoctrination of the
peasantry.
Other interesting features of Zia Kooperativno Zemedelie are
that it has a Science Department (only Rabotnlchesko Delo has a
similar department), a Legal Consultation Department as has
Trud), and five departments devoted to special aspects of agri-
culture]
Rabotnichesko Delo, published in Sofia, the daily organ of the Central
Committee of t.ie Bulgarian Communist Party, has the following departments:
Party Life, Propaganda, Agriculture, Ecl,nomics, Letters from Readers, Soviet
Union and People's Democracies, Foreign, Local Correspondents, Information,
Literature and Art, Local Press, Science and Technology, Criticism and Biblio-
graphy, Feuilleton, Illustration, and Finance and Supply.
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 Otechestven Front, published in Sofia, the daily organ of the National
Council of the Fatherland Front and of the Presidium of the People's Assembly,
has the following departments: Secretariat, (Questions on) People's Soviet
and Fatherland Front, Propaganda, Agriculture, Economic, Culture, Information,
Foreign Politics, Soviet Union and People's Democracies, Liaison With Correspond-
ents, Letters from Readers, and Administration.
Narodna Mladezh published in Sofia, the daily organ of the Dimitrov Union
of People's Youth DS NM), has the following departments: Secretariat, Life of
the DEEM, Propnganda and Agitation, Literature and Art, Workers' Youth, Agricul-
tural Youth, Foreign, Students and Pioneers, Physical Culture, Internal Informa-
tion and Night Editor (dezhuren redaktor), Correspondents, Administration,
Bookkeeping (chekove smetka), and Postal Box (poshtenska kutiya).
Trud, published in Sofia, the daily organ of the Central Council of Trade
Unions, has the following departments: Editor in Chief, Deputy Editors in
Chief, Secretariat, Production and Economic, Trade Union Life, Social and
National (sotsial-bitov), Letters jo the edito] and Legal Consultation,
Correspondents' Network, Internal Information, Culture and Mass, Propaganda,
International, and Administration.
s Za Kooperativno Zemedelie, published in Sofia, the daily organ of the
Ministry of Agriculture, has the following departments: Editor in Chief,
Deputy Editors in Chief, TKZS (Cooperative Labor Farms) Construction, Mass.
Political, Mechanization, Horticulture (rastenievudstvo), Livestock Raising
and Veterinary, DZS (State Farm), Propaganda, Science, Legal Consultation,
Cultural Life, Feuilleton, Humor and Satire, Letters from Readers, Local Corre-
spondents, Illustration, Finance and Administration, and Cash Register. The
night editorship has the following departments: Editor in Chief, Deputy Editor
in Chief, Secretary, Foreign Information, and Internal Information.
Naroden Sport, published in Sofia, the semiweekly organ of the Supreme
Committee for Physical Culture and Sports, has the following departments:
Secretariat, Organization, Propaganda, Foreign, Student Sports, Sports Informa-
tion, and Administration.
Chernomorski Front, published in Burgas, the daily organ of the Burgas 0krug
Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party, the Fatherland Front, and the Okrug
People's Soviet, has the following departments: Editor in Chief, Agriculture,
Letters from Readers, Party, Economic, Culture, Stenography, Connections with the
Province, and Administration.
Septemvriychska Pobeda, published in Pleven, the weekly organ of the Pleven
Okrug Committee of the BKP, the Fatherland Front, and the Okrug People's Soviet,
has the following departments: Editor, Assistant Editor, Party Organization,
Culture, DSNM, Letters from Readers, Administration, Correspondents, Agriculture,
Industry, People's Soviets, Fatherland Front, Physical Culture and Sports, and
DOSO (Voluntary Organization for Defense Cooperation).
Otechestven Glas, published in Plovdiv, the daily organ of the'Plovdiv Okru;;
Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party, has the following departments:
Editor in Chief, Deputy Editor in Chief and Secretariat, Party Organization,
'Propaganda, Economic, Agriculture, Culture, Internal Information, Foreign, Letters
from Readers and Correspondents, Stenography, Photographers, and Administration.
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