ROADS AND BRIDGES

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CIA-RDP80-00810A003500110014-6
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December 22, 2016
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January 8, 2010
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14
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January 28, 1954
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REPORT
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/01/08: CIA-RDP80-0081OA003500110014-6 0 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. SECRET/CONTROL - U. S. tFFICIALS ONLY REPORT SUBJECT Roads and Bridges DATE DISTR. 28 January 1954 NO. OF PAGES 2 REQUIREMENT NO. RD REFERENCES This is UNEVALUATED Information THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE. THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. (FOR KEY SEE REVERSE) 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 M 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 25 YEAR RE-REVIEW SECRET/CONTROL ` U. S. OFFICIALS ONLY STATE x ARMY X NAVY Ix lAi`R X IFS, J JAEC Washington Distribution indicated By "XI I; Field Distribution By Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/01/08: CIA-RDP80-0081OA003500110014-6 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/01/08: CIA-RDP80-00810A003500110014-6 SECRET/CONTROL - U. S. OFFICIALS ONLY is regarded as such a road and will be improved. 6. 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. SECRET/CONTROL - U. S. OFFICIALS ONLY Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/01/08: CIA-RDP80-00810A003500110014-6