ROADS AND BRIDGES

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003500110014-6
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 8, 2010
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: January 28, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Bulgaria
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 V.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 to prohibited.
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REPORT
SUBJECT Roads and Bridges
DATE DISTR.
28 January 1954
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as far as iiytos. From there on there are no guards. From Turnovo to Dimitrov-
grad bridges and tunnels are guarded by Interior Troops as described above.
3. In Ruse a site is being leveled, and much building material has been collected
for the erection of cond railroad station. The position is east of the old
station. laborers working day and night on the construction of a
second railroad line from Ruse to Gorna Oryakhovitsa. In some places it crosses
the other line. It is actually a double track line with the old line.
Li.. Parallel to the new line there is a highway being constructed. It is like the
1. From Podkova to Dimitrovgrad, the tunnels are guarded by sentries of the Militia
stationed at both openings, and opposite the entrance there is a building for 10
men with a sentry-box for each sentry. There is one man on guard at each entrance.
There are no troops with the exception of the sentries. The troops remain near
inhabited places. The bridges are guarded by a sentry from the Militia, but there
is no place for them to stay and no sentry-box as at the tunnels.
2. From Dimitrovgrad to Sofia, bridges and tunnels are guarded in the same manner
but by Interior Troops. The guard remains near the guarded works. There is
one building for the bridges and two for the tunnels. The same procedure applies
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asphalt), but it can carry much heavier loads. thVi road 25X1
begins at Minsk in Russia and goes via Bucharest to Sofia.
the road is being built b order of the USSR so thnt It can carry 25X1
trucks bearing a load of 25 tons. such a 25X1
truck was exhibited at the Plovdiv air weight of a tire was 300 kilo rams,
personnel of four with automatic loading and unloading). a total 25X1
load including vehicle at 40 tons.
? other roads are being constructed from Kurdzhali to 25X1
Dimitrovgrad to Burgas and from Plovdiv to Burgas. The Plovdiv-Sofia road
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is regarded as such a road and will be improved.
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e from Buse (the second one) will be 25X1
he abutments and piers are being con-
extended to Sofia.
structed for a three-story bridge about 1000 meters long over the Danube River,
about two kilometers east of the sugar refinery at Ruse. The first level will
be for railroad traffic, the second level for vehicles, and the third level for
pedestrians. About 25 engineers are working refinery (five-
six are Germans and the rest Russians). the bridge will be 25X1
ready in May 1954? all the Iron Curtain countries are participating 25X1
in it, and are sending materials to the USSR where they are worked and returned
to the bridge site.
The higher level personnel for the construction of the bridge are Russians, and
the lower personnel are Bul arians and Rumanians.
e new ine w 11 be
ready from use to Gorna Oryakhovitsa by 1954. At present only the roadbed has
been constructed. Rails have not yet been laid, but great quantities of them
are expected from the USSR within a matter of davs. about 20 25X1
kilometers of the highway in use, but only certain the Ruse-
Gorna Oryakhovitsa railroad passes. 25X1
or the past two years intensive work has been done on the construction of a
railroad line linking Burgas and Varna.
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