MILITARY INFORMATION FROM THE SOFIA AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002100520008-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 13, 2005
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 27, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains Infoemsttoa 66 MUM Use Its-
tlonsl Defense of the gated'sta es, with* the mssa-
Ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the V S. Code, a.
amended. to tranamiesioa or revelation of Its contents
to or receipt by an unautborlesd person Is psabibitsd
by law. The reproduction of this farm Is prohibited.
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Military Information from the
. Sof is Area
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27 August 1959
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to Large numbers of soldiers gang officers of the reserves have been called rap since
the early summer for training.,, Instructors Include Soviet officers who demonstrate
the use of new types of weapons. Soldiers complain that the training is very
strenuous and is carried out under high pressure.
2. yew troop movements or few soidieri,off duty are seen near Sofia, which may ran
that special aouftoa are being held near the frontiers. Soviet tanks have been
seen moving through the outskirts of Sofia very early in the morning.
AA t.i#$nraft positions have been built on the outskirts of Sofia at Stalisa,
9rashlibna, Tri oAtsi?: ana 9oyaan. Sere is an antiaircraft gam on the root
of the National Bank in the center of the city.:
RI'. After the amnesty announced in the UM after Stalin's death, there was a general
expectation that cow similar announcement would be made in Bulgaria. No such'
statement has been made, however, and on the contrary, a number of armor officers
have been arrested and, tried. ,Sons officers are charged with crimes which they
are alleged to have oonmitned ten year. ago, alnt the sentences have been heavy.
Colonel Ivan ?Arabov'and Colonel lyuben Sosupov were both sentenced to death in
June. ColonEl.Semov (or Simov),.head of the Bulgarian cavalry team which par-
tiojpited in the Olympic s at Helsinki Me: also been arrested.
Forty gr duates, of the former American School at.Sim-eonovo, which is now being
used as 4 training-school for polio* officers,t.were sentenced to long terms of iN-
priso'n"At. following the destruction of Stalin's ; statue . in Sofia shortly after his
death,
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