STARA ZAGORA POWER PLANT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004600500018-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 2, 2007
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: July 30, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Stara Zagora Power Plant
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
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wor was under way on the construction oa large irrigation system 25X1
for a Zagora plain. For this purpose, a brick-concrete canal is being
built to divert the water of the Tundsha River to the "Koprinka" barrage. 25X1
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2. I the VETs (Vodno Elektrioheska Tsentrala; Rydoelsotrio Plant) 25X1
of this system will be or has been constructed somewhere around the "Koprinka"
reservoir. It is said that this will have a capacity of 200,000 kilowatt hours
of electric energy (time period not known).
3. The new "Stara Zagora" Hydroelectric Plant is to be constructed approximately
1,200 meters southwest of-the'barricks of artillery in the 25X1
southwest outskirts of Stara Zagora, along the road to Ohirpan (not known on
which side of the road, but somewhere around the place where the canal drosses
the road to rpan). It will be fed from the above-mentioned canal. 0 25X1
work had not been started on this plant as of 4 July --~- he 25x"i
civilian laborers were still hard at work on completing the canal.
the canals are o com-
May 1954a
Comment, Koprinka village is located at x 42-38, E 25-20. The
irrigation an ow r scheme mentioned above is of the " e "
Dam project
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STATE = ARMY = NAVY I x AIR x FRI AEC
This Document oontaln. Into matron a".otins the Na-
tional Defense of the United State., within the moan.
Ing of TTtie 1E, Notions 713 and 794. of the U.S. cods, as
amended. Its USUMMAo or nnlation of Its .on ten).
to or nselpt by an unauthoetad penan Is prohibited
by low. The sop oduellon of this feet Is Prohibited.
DATE DISTR. 30 July 1954
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