THE CITY OF VIDIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002000310003-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 20, 2009
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: August 7, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na
tiona) Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.EF. 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.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT The City of Vidin
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 7 August 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
Vidin (N L3-590 E 22-53) has a population of approximately 20,000. Although the
city was long considered an okrog centers all okr~g institutions for its area are
now located at Vratsa (N Ii3-129 E 23-33)-
Z. The regular Army strength at Vidin is one Border Guard unit and one infantry unit.
3. Since 19510 a railroad ferry with five or six pairs of rails and capable of holding
46 cars has crossed three or four times daily from Vidin to Calafats Rumania. The
cars contain mainly foodstuffs, industrial supplies$ tobaccos and earthenware.
The Machine Traotoi? Station.' a.t Vidin, formerly' .located near the port area p has
been moved outside the city limits. The station supplies the entire area with
tractors and other agricultural maohineryo
the fall ing factories at Vidins 25X1
a. The earthenware factory, located approximately 200 meters from the railroad
station, engaged principally with export orders; it employs 100 workers;
be The tobacco and cigarette factory, located 200 meters north of the earthen-
ware factory, makes "Arda,1Q the most popular Bulgarian cigarettes and good
quality tobacco and cigarettes for export; it employs about 300 workers;
c. The canned foods factory (Koneervaaiy Zavod), located approximately 50 meters
from the earthenware factory., engaged principally with export orders; it
employs 1,000 workers in the summer and 300 in the winter; and
do The Stalin Machine Factory, located near the earthenware factory, =ploys
approximately 300 workers.
6. New industrial enterprises are to be built In the area of the factories listed
above, and workers have razed entire streets of houses and are removing the wreckage.
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7. The power etation is opposite the port area., adjacent to the cigarette and
tobacco factory. It cannot produce enough power for local use., so additional
parer is obtained from the new station at Mezdra (N 43-08, E 23-41).
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