PUBLICATION OF ARTICLES IN THE PRESS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004200170008-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 3, 2010
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 18, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Bulgaria
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
REPORT
SUBJECT Publication of Articles in the Press DATE DISTR. 18 May 1954
NO. OF PAGES 1
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. Agitprop (Agitatsiya I Propaganda), headed by Todor Zhivkov who is a member 25X1
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 (BTA; Bulgarian News Agency).
3. T e head censor of. Trud and Zemedelsko Zname is Krustyu Stoychev 25X1
He was a member of the Supreme Censorship Commission of Agitprop, but 25X1
during the Kestov trial he was removed on the charge of carelessness and given
an uniMportant position at a factory near Sofia. He was returned to Agitprop
in early 1953 and was appointed censor of the above papers. Stoychev was a friend
of Vladimir Poptomov,:the only person who opposed the monetary reform of 1952 and
who died of unknown causes a few months later.
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 oT:the persons at the BTA responsible for
news from Turkey. "r':' ? "'i'ti
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