MISCELLANEOUS ECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003500110010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 8, 2010
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: January 28, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
PLACE ACQUIRED
1. Lead and tin from the'Rhodope Mines and iron from Eliseyna are sent to
Germany.. Czechoslovakia, and the USSR. Copper from Eliseyna and uranium
from the Bukhovo and Rhodope (Naretsen) Mines are sent to the USSR.
2. A small chemical factory, making paints and aniline dyes, is operating in
Sofia. There are plans in Moscow for the construction of a modern factory for
the same purpose.
Intensive work with machinery is being conducted in Sofia for the completion of
the big hotel on Lenin Square opposite the Ministry of National Health. Just
opposite the Ministry of National Health, the building of the Ministry of Heavy
Industry is being erected. Both are six story buildings.
4. In Lom, a large building intended for a warehouse is being reconstructed.
5. A large store for children's goods has opened in Sofia. It is the largest store
of this kind in Bulgaria, and is located on Alexander Stambuliski Street
opposite the DSNM (Dimitrovski Suyuz na Narodnata MLadezh; Dimitrov's Union of
the People's Youth) building. It is a new two-story building, measuring
100 x 100 meters.
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This is UNEVALUATED Information
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
by the and of the year, 50-60 cooperatives of various
trades tailors, tinsmiths, shoemakers, etc.) will be closed, because such goods
are now being produced by factories.
7.
while the former General Slavcho Trunski had been
imprisoned on a charge of collaborating with Tito, he had subsequently been
appointed director of production of lumber for building purposes and had been
recalled to active service with a change-in his rank.
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Miscellaiheous Economic, Political
and Military Information
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8.
a person who had been sentenced to
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eight years in prison for carrying weapons illegally
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rison after his sentence in the cen ral prison of Sofia.
about 340 prisoners had been released from that
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prison, and that the same thing had happened throughout the entire country.
9. In Pleven there is a vegetable and fruit canning factory.
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eight ZIS trucks of the 4-ton military type. They were loading canned goods for
the Army.
10. In the "Kaili.ka" amusement center at Pleven,
25 officers of high
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and low rank. All were Russians returning f
rom maneuvers
and were staying in
Bulgaria for rest and recreation. all the Russians
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totalled 2500 men. They carried out maneuvers on the Black Sea coast of Rumania,
came to Varna to test small fast boats, and then for leave in Bulgaria. Five of
the fast boats tested belonged to Bulgaria.
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