MISCELLANEOUS MILITARY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005300730007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 13, 2007
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT 1. Miscellaneous Military Information
2. Return of Deported Families
3. Registration of Trucks
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
Ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
REPORT NO.
DATE DISTR. 12 November 1954
NO. OF PAGES 2
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
Recall of Reserves
1. Informant claims that around 15-16 August 1954, about 100 men from Etropole
(N 42-50, E 24-00), Botevgrad Okoliya were mobilized. The majority of them
were mobilized for only 15 days; the remainder for two months. Informant
states that they were sent to Botevgrad.
2. Informant claims that in September 1954, there were less soldiers in Devin than
in the winter of 1953-54, because more of them were sent towerds'the border
line. The rest were sent to Buynovo, or transferred to Smolyan. Informant
could give no additional information.
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Length of Training for Trudovaks
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3. Informant heard that a new order had been issued reducing Trudovak sexv1.ce
from 36 to 34 months for youths with a university education.
Return of Deported Families
4. On 15 March 1954, deported families began returning to their native villages
and towns. According to informant, all deported families were gradually
returned to their native homes. Informant claimed that there was a general
order forthe return of deported families. The deported family received an
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announcement for one of its members to appear before their Okoliya Militia
section. There they received another announcement stating they were to be
returned to their native home, and were to receive all their property.
they received only
two rooms back in their home and were without work. Later their entire
home and most of their field was returned to them.
Registration of Trucks
6. Informant claims that in April 1954, the number of
old numbers were completely chanced for new ones_
were collected in front of the office of UAT (Upravlenie na Avtomobilniya
Transport; Auto Transportation Management). Informant does not know for
what purpose the numbers were changed, but elieves that such changes occurred
throurrhout the country, because he also observed trucks with new numbers in
G`otse Delchev.(forierly Nevrokop).
the numbers being changed in Teteven. More than 60 trucks
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