THE GAVRIL GENOV PAINT FACTORY IN RUSE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000800080008-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2009
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: March 31, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY Bulgaria
NO. OF PAVES 2
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS SNORT ARE DNIHITIVE.
THE AMRAISAL OF CONW4T IS TINTATIVE.
(OOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. The Gavril Genov Paint Factory in Ruse was constructed approximately 30 years ago by
Iskovich Levi, the former proprietor, in collaboration with German technicians. In
19 ?L1, the factory was requisitioned by the Germans. In 1947, it was nationalized by
the Communists, named Zavod Gavril Genov, and enlarged considerably,
2. At present the factory has the following subdivisions:
a. Lithography section;
b. Colored plaster section;
c. Polish section;
d. Oil-paint section;
e. Varnish section;
f. Chromatin section;
g. Cans (containers) Section;
h. Materials (electrical materials and raw materials) section;
I. Furnace section;
J, Machinery (boilers of German manufacture) section;
k. Cellulose materials section;
1. Section where the powdered paints are colored; and.
m. Warehouse section.
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REPORT
The Gavril Genov Paint Factory in use DATE DISTR. 31 March 1953
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directive personnel:
3. At present 400-500 workers are employed at the paint factory. The following are the
b. Gacostanev (fnu), chief of the materials section;
c. Angel Georgiev, secretary,
d. Union leader, name unknown
a. Stefan Tanev, director,
e. Ivan Naskov, Communist Party director (political commissar)
4. In order to keep up with the Bulgarian need for cans for the conservation of foods and
materials, production has been particularly increased in the lithography section. Con-
tainers for canning tomato sauce and paste are also produced by this factory. The
annual production of cans amounts to approximately 500,000 pieces of 5-kilogram
capacity. The best tomato sauce (i.e., the thickest) is boxed for export, mainly to
the USSR, but lately also to Czechoslovakia. The raw materials necessary for the man-
ufacture of the metal containers is 'imypdrted 'f'rom the USSR.
5. The production of paints amounts to 450,000 cans per year. The necessary raw materials
are partly imported from Czechoslovakia and partly obtained from the mines in the
mountains at Ruse. The taints are, for the most part, exported to the USSR; the paints
held for domestic use are taken over by the Armed Forces and by the more important
services; throughout the country.
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