RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL RESOURCES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004800220008-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 8, 2007
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 27, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CE-N`TRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Bulgaria
619925
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.
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SUBJECT Research Institute for Natural
Resources
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 27 August 1954
NO. OF PAGES 2
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(Pon KEY Sts-WERSE)
1. I'Geoloshki I Minni Prouchuvaniya't iL. O is is a state research institute for
the detection of natural resources. In 1953 the Institute was moved into a
5-story building in Boulevard.Georgi Dimitrov, at the corner of Tear SimeonbStreet.
The Institute is under the Ministry of Heavy Lnaustry (ha.nisterstvo.,Na Teshkata
Industriya)i which is located in a recently completed 5-story building in Graf
Ignatiev Street.
2. The staff of the Institute consists of approximately 300 persona, including a
large, proportion of specialists such as engineers, agroncmiete, geologists,
chemists, and technicians. The staff is Bulgarian with the exception of
possibly three Soviet specialists. Though the latter do not occupy official
positions, they impress their mark on.the entire working of the Institute.
3. The research is carried out by sir,-,..a teams of experts operating in certain
areas, mainly mountainous ones. Samples ofthe various substances encountered
such as soil,'stones, minerals, ores., etc., are forwarded to the Institute for
analysis.
lt. The Institute has several laboratories, includings
a. A modern abundantly-equipped chemical laboratory;
b. A photographic workshop., nearly every stage of the work of the Institute
being dependent on photography as a matter of routine;
c. A galvano-technical laboratory for the charging of batteries which feed the
instruments and appliances for field work., these latter including the latest
devices of Soviet and German manufacture; and
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 d. A new X-ray installation for the examination of heavy matter, such as stones
and ores.
The Institute also has a workshop for precision mechanics, which makes and repairs
h
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spare parts for its instruments, The equupment of the workshop incluC s three lat
One of these is very small for the most delicate work processes, is rather old,, and
is of German manufacture; the second is a medium lathe of modern Czechoslovakian
make;-and the third is a large lathe of Bulgarian make.
6. Pett r Paunov .is the manager of the workshop for precision mechanics. He is a
mechanical engineer
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Georei Paskov is the manager of the photographic laboratory and holds a special
permit to take photographs throughout Bulgeria.
8. Katarina Gocheva is a clerk in the (Cadre Department of the Institute.
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