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

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CIA-RDP80-00810A001100190005-4
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November 18, 2009
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May 4, 1953
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REPORT
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2009/11/18: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA001100190005-4 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, SECRET/CONTROL - U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY SECURITY INFORMATION 1. Political Training Center in Dimitrovgrad 2. Partisan Training Camp at Berkloviit+aao DATE OF INFO. PLACE ACQUIRE SECRET/CONTROL - U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY This is UNEVALUATED Information THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE. THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. (FOR KEY SEE REVERSE) 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". 25X1 25X1 25X1, 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. 25X1 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, Albanian Communists 25X1 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. STATE ARMY lAIR FBI I DATE DISTR. 4 May 1953. NO. OF PAGES 2 REQUIREMENT NO. RD REFERENCES m Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2009/11/18: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA001100190005-4 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2009/11/18: CIA-RDP80-00810A001100190005-4 SECRET/CONTROL - U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY 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. SECRET/CONTROL - U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2009/11/18: CIA-RDP80-00810A001100190005-4