1. POLITICAL TRAINING CENTER IN DIMITROVGRAD 2. PARTISAN TRAINING CAMP AT BERKOVITSA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL 'INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Bulgaria
This Document contains information affecting the Na-'
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 704, of the U.S. Code, as
amended, Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorised person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form it prohibited,
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SECURITY INFORMATION
1. Political Training Center in
Dimitrovgrad
2. Partisan Training Camp at Berkloviit+aao
DATE OF INFO.
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Information
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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Center from July to September 1952. Allegedly the activists enrolled in the course
were told of a grand plan for political propaganda which would affect all European
countries not yet under Communist domination and which would act insconjunction
with the Peace Congress in Vienna. The following are the main points of the plans
a. To-denounce the war crimes of the Americans in Korea, and to aroise the
hatred of the masses;
b. To initiate propaganda in each country for a "special law" against those
guilty of war-mongering;
c. By means ' of a signature campaign, to gain e the Lgreat i~dalsib3; num fer of
adherents to the Peace Congress in Vienna. This Gongress is considered as
the high tribunal which will replace the United Nations (considered to be
the mouthpiece of reactionary governments) with a new "Union of Peace
Loving Peoples".
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an' 0O activists were trained in a special summer course at the Dimitrovgrad
It appears, in fact, that the speakers at this Vbngress will emphasize the Soviet
threat to resign from the United Nations,.if the latter does not heed the protests
of the Peace Council.
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2. Of the 600 hundred participants at the course in Dimitrovgrad rlittle more than
half were Bulgarian, while the remai der were Yu oslav Cominform ts,25X1,
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Civilian specialists arom ma countries, assisted by a number of o e political
officers ("Culturar'Attaches.at the Soviet Embassy in Sofia) acted as instructors
at the course.
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DATE DISTR. 4 May 1953.
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3.
During the same period as that of the training course in Dimitrovgrad mentioned
above, a military training course under the direction of Soviet officers and
technicians was 'in progrbss'in iBerkhovitsa. The purpose of the course was to
reorg ctivist groups. These partisans were scheduled for guerilla
actio in the region'of Macedonia belonging to Yugoslavia. After 25X1
a period of elementary instruction,, during which the partisans receive training
parallel to that of assault units and parachutists, the partisan brigades participate
in large-scale maneuvers together with the regular units of the Bulgarian Army.
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