CHANGES IN THE DEPARTMENTS OF THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007300290005-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2007
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: June 30, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Bulgaria
DATE OF INFO.
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DATE ACQUIRED
Changes in the Departments
of the Ministry of Interior
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1.. 2n.September 1954 the Council of Ministers decided to limit the number of
deputy ministers to three in each ministry.. Former deputy ministers who
were not to retain their positions were demoted to assistants to deputy
ministers. The three Deputy Ministers of the Ministry of the Interior are
Georgi Kumbiliev, Apostol Kolchev, and Nikola Tsachev.. Stoyan Dzhurov,
former Deputy Minister; Khristo Boev, former Deputy Minister and now
Ambassador to Berlin; and Kapitanov (fnu), former adviser to the Minister,,
were transferred.
2. Khristo Boev had headed the internal and foreign intelligence department,
but following his transfer., the department was split. Internal security
matters were assigned to Dimitur Murdzhev (also head.of Department III). 25X1
and intelligence activities abroad were assigned to ICapriel.Kaprielov,
assistant to Deputy Minister Kumbiliev.. Kaprielov,.iaho is of Armenian
origin, was dismissed from the '.Ministry of Interior in 1950. For some
time he was employed in the Metal Department of the Ministry of Internal
Trade, following which he was imprisoned for one year. He returned to
the Ministry of Interior in April 1954. His wife is a deputy minister 25X1
in the Ministry of Foreign Trade.
3. The present intelligence and security organization in the Ministry of
Interior is as follows :
a. Department I, foreign intelligence, headed by Kaprielov;
b. Department II, surveillance of "Fascist" and religious organizations;
c. Department III, counterintelligence and surveillance of foreign diplo-
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d. Department IV, interrogations;
e. Department V. operational archivesk wire-tapping., and censorship of
mail and telegraph;
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f. Department VI, physical surveillance, serves all departments upon request;
g. Department VII, security of vital installations, headed by Dunkov (fnu);
h. Department VII, Frontier Troops, headed by General Dimitur Angelov Gilin;
Sektsiya 17 of this department is a special operational intelligence
section;
i. Department IX, prisons and prison camps, headed by Troev (fnu);
J. Department X, cyphers;
k. Department XI, transportation; and
1. Department XII; finances, files and archives.
4. The following are separate administrations (Upravleniya) and come directly
under the control of the deputy ministers:
a. Supply Administration, headed by Colonel Basmadzhiev (fnu) and under
Deputy Minister Tsachev;
b. People's Militia Administration, headed by Colonel Stozharov (fnu) and
under Deputy Minister Kolchev; and
c. Liaison Administrations under Deputy Minister Kumbiliev. The head of
this administration is not known.
5. An organizational diagram of the Ministry of Interior is included as an
Appendix on page 3.
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Siffiatsr. Taa roy
it Sinister K mbiliev Ds it Sinister Iolchev De t ILinister Tsachsv
Liaison Administration
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Snnnly Administration
II III IV V VI VII VIII f XI In.. E-. DEPART VENTS
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