1. GOVERNMENT SPECULATION IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS 2. SHIPMENT OF GOODS TO THE USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: December 7, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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.B. 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
PLACE ACQUIRED
1. Government Speculation in
Agricultural Products
2. Shipment of Goode to the USSR
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 7 December 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT 13 TENTATIVE.
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Government Speculation in Agricultural Products
1. Although farmers are no longer required to supply milk to the State as part of
their agricultural quotas, they are obliged to sell whole milk in excess of their
personal needs to the State collection centers. Prices are fixed at 0.50 to 0.80
levy per liter, according to the butterfat content. This milk is then skimmed
and resold at 3.50 lava per liter.
2. At Sofia, many women protested this practice vigorously. Following this, a
report appeared in the press that this milk, although having been skimmed, still
"had not lost any of its vitamin content."
Shipment of Goode to the USSR
3. The major part of Bulgaria's agricultural products and subsoil resources are sent
arbitrarily to the Soviet Union without any compensation by the USSR. Bulgarian
uranium ores are sent to the USSR, as well as rice
wool, ferrous ores, coal, petroleum, and tobacco.
4. Bulgarian families have already been told that they will not be able to buy coal
for heating purposes this winter.
5?
It is said that the petroleum extracted from the deposits recently discovered in
the Shabla, Kavarna, and Provadiya areas is the exclusive property of the USSR.
These deposits are part of the Soviet oil fields of the Caucasus, extending under
the Black Sea.
6. In early 1953s almost all of Bulgaria's tobacco was shipped to the USSR without
having been processed. This caused much unemployment in the tobacco processing
industry. in fact, during the 1 May parades in Plo'div and Khaskovo, workers
carried signs reading "We want work," rather than the usual praises of the Soviet
Union. On 10 May, Minister Yugov, a former tobacco processing worker?was called
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in to stop the dispute in these two cities. When he intervened, the workers
protested violently. The resulting riots were put down by the police, killing
one worker in Plovdiv, two in Khaskovo, and wounding about 50 others.
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