1. BOLYAROVO COOPERATIVE FARM 2. CIVILIAN BORDER GUARD UNITS

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Bulgaria
CONFIDENTIAL
SECURITY INFORMATION
1. Bolyarovo Cooperative Farm
2. Civilian Border Guard Units
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the wean-
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 NO.
DATE DISTR.
NO. OF PAGES
$ December 1953
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
Bolyarovo Cooperative Farm
1. Over % percent (695 of 700) of the families in Bolyarovo village (N 12-09,
E 26-1L8), Elkhovo Okoliya, have joined the TKZS (Tradovo Kooperativno Zemedelsko
Stopanstvo; Cooperative Pam). The Bolyarovo TKZS is reportedly one of the largest
agricultural cooperatives in Bulgaria. The five families which have not joined
the farm possess a total of about 110 acres of land. The heads of these families
are as follows:
a. Ivan Georgiev Pekhlivanov, former policeman, owns 10 acres;
be Georgi Ivanov Yanev, owns 18 acres; Yanev was excluded from the TKZS because
some of his wife's relatives had fled to Turkey;
o. Nikola Tulev Nikolov, owns 40 acres;
d. Khristo Tulev Nikolov (Nikola Tulev Nikolov's brother), owns 40 acres; and
e. Ivan Iliev Pamrikov, owns 50 to 60 acres.
3. The TKZS does not have any tractors or modern machinery of its own, and all the
plowing,, planting, and harvesting is done with machinery from &h unidentified MTS
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(Mashino Traktorno Stantsiya; Machine Tractor Station). For this service, the TKZS
turns over a share of the crop to the MTS. The largest part of the crop is de-
livered to the Government.
Civilian Border Guard Units
3. In all border villages there are groups of Communists or active DSNM (Dimitrovski
Sliyuz na Narodnata Mladezh; Dimitrov Union of the People's Youth) members organized
to aid the Border Guard units by patrolling the villages and nearby roads at night.
They also set up occasional ambushes for the purpose of assisting in the capture of
suspicious persons. These groups are known as Grupa za;Sudeystvie (Assistance
Groups).
b. In Bolyarovo, six 2-man armed patrols were sent out each night from 10s00 to 400.
These patrols were armed with carbines supplied by the Bolyarovo People's Council;
the carbines are stored in the People's Council building when not in use.
5. The Bolyarovo Grupa za Sudeystvie had 30 to L.0 members, including the following:
a. Khristo Dimitrov Kurtev, ISNM member;
b. M ikhal Dimitrov Kalev, DSNM member;
c. Nikola Onchev, DSNM member;
d. Stoyu Petrov Iliev, Communist Party member;
e. Atanas Penchev, Communist Party member;
f. Dimitur,Z helev, Communist Party member;
g. Atanas Karastoyanov, Ccimmunist Party member;
h. Peter Kurtev Drazhev, Communist Party member;
i. Kuru Dimitrov Kaludov, Communist Party member;
J. Yani Velikov Krustev, Communist Party member;
k. Georgi Iliev, Communist Party member;
1. Andon Madzharov, Communist Party member;
m. Stancho Ivanov Shutovi Communist Party member;
no Ivan Ivanov Shutov, Communist Party member; and
o. Dimitur Vulkov, Communist Party member.
25X1 I iComments The Preliminar Results of the Population Census of 3 December
L946,, published in Sofia in l9 7, lists the population of Bolyarovo as 1,774.
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