ACTIVITIES OF THE PCM IN TORREON, COAHUILA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004100680009-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 11, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
634"
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.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.
SECRET/CONTROL - U. S. OFFICIALS ONLY
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Publication of Articles in the Press
REPORT
18 May 1954
DATE DISTR.
NO. OF PAGES 1
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1. Agitprop (Agitatsiya I Propaganda), headed by Todor Zhivkov who is a member
of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party, decides the policy
of editorials and political articles to be printed in the press. It holds
weekly meetings for this purpose with editors-in-chief of the important papers--
Trud, Otechestven Front, Rabotnichesko Delo, Semedelsko Zname, and Narodna
M=a eshi. On receivv -thee directives from Agitprop., each editor-in-chief meets
with Me editors of his political sections (local and foreign) and with his
economic editor, who is considered the equal of the political editors, to give
them the basic line to be followed and the number of articles required for a
certain time.
2. Each morning the editor-in-chief calls a meeting of his editors, who submit
their material in accordance with the policy set at the weekly meetings. It
is then decided finally what will appear in the following day's paper, and if
any changes are required they must be entered before noon. In the afternoon
the material is. checked by a group of three to five censors, at least one of
whom represents the Army. The news editors are the last to submit their material,
99 percent of which is copied from the bulletins of TASS (Soviet News Agency) and
the Bulgarska Telegrafna Agentsiya (BTAj Bulgarian News Agency).
The head censor of. Trud and Zemedelsko Zname is Krustyu Stoychev~
He was returned to Agitprop
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Lupo Rosenstein is one of the persons at the BTA responsible for the concentration
of news from Yugoslavia. He is also the commentator on Yugoslav questions at
Radio Sofia. Nissim Benbassat is-one o'_the persons at the BTA 25X1
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in early 1953 and was appointed censor of the above papers.