ALLEGED BULGARIAN SECRET MISSION TO YUGOLSLAVIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001400260007-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2009
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 5, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL:INT.ELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Bulgaria
Alleged Bulgarian Secret Mission
to Yugoslavia
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 5 June 1953
NO. OF PAGES 1
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
group or some high-ranking anti-Tito officials
1, In.April 1952,. General Ivan Tsolov Vinarovs, then the Bulgarian Minister of Con-
structions and four or five other high-ranking officers went on a secret mission
into Yugoslavia. Simeon Popov, Director of the Department of Roads and a member
of the Snecial Commission-for Projects and Plans of the Ministry of Construction,
remarked that Bulgaria has nothing
more ,to fear from Yugoslav because an Government is fully informed. 25X1
about the Yugoslav military situation,
cams to the conclusion that Vinarov went to contact an anti-Tito undergroun
Comments Ivan Vinarov was Minister of Construction from 21 November 1951
to Novem er 1952, He was never a member of the Bulgarian Politburo. 25X1
SECRET
STATE X ARMY X NAVY X AIR X FBI AEC
(Note: Washington Distribution Indicated by "X"/ Field Distribution By "*".)
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