THE SUGAR FACTORY AT RUSE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000400530002-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 10, 2009
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
NAVY 5C AIR X FBI AEC
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lo The sugar factory at Ruse was founded in 1912 by the Societ Anvers Belgika
(Antwerp Belgium Company). In 1938, it was taken over by. the Bulgarian Sugar
Cooperative and operated under its direction until 1944. At present, the number
of persons working in this factory has been increased by three or four times over
the pre-Communist regime fiLrare, approximately 2,000 for the harvest season, while
the output has greatly diminished.
2. The sugar is eartracted from beets which are cultivated in the regions of Silistra,
Taxtraki u, Sv ,, htcrr, Nikopcl, Oryakhovo, Somovit, Lom, and Vidin. At, first these
regions produced between 70,000 and 80,000 tons of beets, while they now produce
only .! ,Ooo to SO,Ot'+0 tons, the harvests yielded 23,000 to 28,000 tons of sugar
in the pat,, but now yl.e1d on .r 15,000 to 17,000 tons. This decline in produativ-
ity is a rrasult of the failure of the kolkhoz system which has been adopted through-
out Bulgaria.
The directive psrso2 n el of the factory is as followse
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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT The Sugar Factory at Ruse
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
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DATE DISTR. 4 March 1953
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Staves (f'ru9 . I ~nt,eradeTMat of su ar-beet oultivationr
4. The ch. 1cal laboratory has # pproximately 20 to 25 employees, give of whom are
engla ,e 's. The d'! 'ecative personnel is as followse
a. Chc ka ev -4 chief of 'the laborato
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13. The chief of the pump section is Stoyan Petr 25X1
tributes all the running water necessary for the functioning of the factory.
11:. The tools and ui ennt section is r o irs. Its chief is
Tsanlso Kovache 25X1
15. After the sugar has been extracted from the sugar-beets,, the remainder is sold to
alcohol factories. There are five large storage spaces of 500 tons each in the
molasses section; these facilities were used for gasoline storage during World
War II.
i6. There is a total of eight large sugar-beet warehouses which are connected with
the factory by a large avenue. These are approximately 1,500 meters. distant from
the factory by direct line.
17. There are two very large sugar warehouses,, each capable of holding 1,000 carloads
of sugar.
18. An electric cable line is used to transport the sugar-beets from the river docks,
which are one and one-half kilometers from the factory. The landing docks have
two large 5-ton cranes which are used to load the beets on the cable cars. A X7`0-
horsept ;er bor is used to power the cable' line. The:' dirs tive person el "of:lbhe
electric cable line section is, as, .follows s
a. beef Kuznov, chief'
b. K. Petrov, work foreman,
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19. The Commmanist section (cell) of the factory is as follows:
a. Drac~os Tirnov. Politiyal Chief of the favtor~
b. Gerashimov (fnu), secret
v. Khristo Karagayev, workers' representativ
and
Nede=fnu), treasurer
20. Surveillance of the factory is carried out by 20 Militia men and 20 guards.
Discipline at the factory is very severe and workers are transferred immediately
after becoming esuspect.9n Discipline is constantly more severe in the hopes of
increasing the productivity of the workers.
21. Other sugar factories, all subordinate to the Durzhavna Zakhari Fabriki (State
Sugar Factories) with headquarters at Sofia, are located at Gorna Oryakhovitsa,
Movdiv, and Pleven (Dolna Mitropoliya). The machinery of another factory,
located in Sofia, was dismounted and sent to other plants.
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