JET AIRCRAFT AT BEZMER AND YAMBOL AIRFIELDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000400550005-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 2009
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: March 2, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Bulgaria
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. Three or four jet airplanes are parked on Bezmer airfield. 2 This field has been
specially equipped for jet aircraft, its landing strip has been lengthened, and
underground hangars have been built. 3
2. During 1952, two or three jet planes, coming from Bezmer airfield, flew over
Yambol on daily training flights. These jets, of Soviet manufacture, were of
the following types:
a. "Strela", with swept back pointed wings; and
b. l'Yastreb", with straight 90 degree square wings.
Airplanes of the following types, exact number not known, were observed at Yambol
airfield:
a. LAS-7;
b. LIT-2; and
c. YAK-9 . 495
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Jet Aircraft at Bezmer and Yambol
Airfields
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tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
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REPORT
DATE DISTR. 2 March 1953
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