MISCELLANEOUS MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000400040010-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 5, 2009
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 6, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Bulgaria
Miscellaneous Military Information
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 6 March 1953
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REFERENCES
This is UNEVALUATED Information
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. On 26 May. 1952, the entire division stationed in Shumen left town headed for
Sliven or Karnobat for encampment.
2. Civilian and military personnel are being employed in the construction of a large
underground shelter or warehouse near the Tsar Krum (N 43-11 E 26-53) railroad
station, at the Kacevo (sic) stop. Trenches, possibly to be used for maneuvers,
are being excavated around the city, and'shelters for the civilian population are
being constructed inside the city, in the vicinity of the district hospital and
of the cemetery.
3. In May 1952, units of the Kyustendil garrison left town for summer camp. The 25
Infantry Regiment is quartered in 200 Army tents.located at the Senokos ( N 42-15
E 22-36) camp which it occupied the previous year. Officers of the regiment are
quartered in private apartments in the village of Zhilentsi (N 42-16 E 22-38).
Major Marinkov, former regimental commander, was arrested for undisclosed reasons
and replaced by an unidentified major. More than half of the officers' cadre of
the regiment is comparatively new, having served less than one year. Units of 13
Infantry Regiment are encamped in groups in various border villages including
Ranintsi (N 42-15 E 22-29), Gyueshevo (N 42-14 E 22-28), and Dolno Uyno '(N 42-24
E 22-35). It is believed that the men of 13 Infantry Regiment will be employed
on the construction of fortifications.
On .5 May 1952, an unidentified tank unit descended from the Sofia train at the
Zemen station (N 42-28 E 22-46) and proceeded toward the village. of Dolno Uyno.
The unit included four tanks but its actual strength is not known.
On 22 April 19529 at approximately 8:00 p.m., an unidentified infantry unit passed
through Dupnitsa, headed for Kyustendil. Approximately 20 trucks drawing cannons,
and three trucks loaded with field kitchens were observed. The unit, which came
from the direction of Samokov, is allegedly the 7 Infantry Regiment, subordinate
to 7 Infantry Division. In the latter part of April 1952, a portion of this unit
encamped in the Zhilentsa Mountains, near the area of Pamuka, seven kilometers
southwest of Kyustendil.
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6. Since early 1952, the textile factories in Sofia have not been producing according
to plan. In April 1952, the Emil Markov factory completed only 80 percent of the
plan and all other factories were also behind in production schedule. The main
reason for this is that workers, after having worked for two or three months,
leave for other better jobs. As a result, factory representatives attempt to
recruit the required manpower in the villages., and regulations against proselytiz-
ing are often disregarded. In some,factories there are workers who.were said to
be "politically unacceptable", and were to be dismissed, but present circumstances
are such that the authorities are obliged to keep them on the job.
A clandestine radio station with a range of approximately 200 kilometers is
located in Bulgaria. This and other facts show that anti-Cominform forces are
organizing themselves in Bulgaria.
8. In the area which includes the villages of.Kadin Most (N 42-15 E 22-51)9 Kopriste
(sic), and Konyavo '(N 42-19 E 22-46), to the southeast and east of Kyustendil,
Trudovaks are employed on construction .projects involving permanent forti-
fications and field fortifications. only tunnels are being excavated at present.,
and construction materials are being brought to the site.1
9. Two military units., one of six and one of eight men, are located in the village
of Leshko (N 41-56 E 22-57), Gorna Dzhumaya okoliya. Members of these units,
commanded by Spas Karoleov, a member of the. Bulgarian Communist Party, are select-
ed by the secretary of the OPO (sic). Strict measures have been taken to keep
secret the names of the members of these groups. The groups undergo individual
military training, under the supervision of a Border Guard noncommissioned officer.
The members were pmomised that they would all be soon supplied with rifles and
were told that, in the event of an emergency, their duty was to assist the border
units in their campaign against Yugoslav. spies..
10. In the spring of 1952, fear among the Bulgarian border population was greatly
increased when all refugees and suspect persons were interned. Propaganda against
Yugoslavia recently increased in the border areas. The Bulgarian Communist Party
and the DSNM (Dimitrovski Suyuz na Narodna Mladesh; Dimitroves Union of the
People?s Youth) promoted assemblies and public meet.ngs in all villages, and speeches
were delivered against. Yugoslavia and the United States bases in that country.
An exhibit entitled "Titoists without Masks" was held in villages in the Kyustendil
okoliya. Prior to this exhibit, public meetings were held,and a door-to-door
canvass made in order to induce the peasants to attend. After the exhibit was. over,
other public meetings were held, devoted to explaining and discussing the exhibit.
Measures such as these-are creating a war psychosis among the population. The
majority of the population claim that in the event of war, they would not fight
(sic) against Stalin or Chervenkov, and that a future war would bring them freedom.
11. Two large barracks housing large permament garrisons are located in Nevrokop. A
large auxiliary airfield was completed in Nevrokop in March 1952, It does not
have a runway.2 A large number of workers under military supervision are employed
in the construction of a road, from Razlog, via Belitsa (N'4l-57 E 23-33), to
Samokov.
12. It is reported from Ruse that a bridge will be built across the Danube, six
kilometers northeast of the city., at a location where the width of the river is
narrowest. Large quantities of construction material are being transported to
the site, and manpower and specialists are being recruited. Soviets are in
charge of bridge construction, and preliminary work started in the spring of 1952.
This bridge will be of strategic significance.
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an Army medical unit composed of 30 men left for 25X1
Northern Korea in the early part of June 1952.
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