STATUS OF VULKO CHERVENKOV MINCHO NEYCHEV AND LYUBEN GERASIMOV

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006900060009-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 7, 2008
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 16, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Sece. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in. any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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16 May 1955
Mi
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OF PAG
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Ly
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DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRI
REQUIREMENT
REFERENCES
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This is UNEVALUAT
ED Information
DATE ACQUIRE
entuart: t:tAIIIATInNS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
4 1.
It is rumored that Premier VuAko Chervenkov will be appointed General
Secretary of the Cominform in Bucharest.
Although there are no visible signs that Foreign Minister Mincho
Neychev will retire or be replaced, his deputy, Lyuben Gerasimo ..,
appears to be the strong man in the Foreign Ministry.
C; believes that this information is purely manor,
arising from the fact that Bulgarians in the past, such as Georgi Me
Dimitrov, have held this post.
(Note: Washington distribution indicated by "X"; Field distribution by "#"
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