THE NEW ASENOVGRAD-KURDZHALI ROAD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007500860002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 3, 2008
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: July 28, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
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. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT The New AsenovgraA _T,,-rr7,7i,o 7 4 i)_-
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28 July 1955
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1. The road which connects Asenovgrad and:Kurdzhali was completed two years agot
and runs through Tsurven (N 41-57, E 24-.57), 1`opolovo (N 41-54, E 25-00), and
Kumoniga (N 41-48, E 25-14). The road branches off from the kheskovo-
Kurdzhali road about 21.7 kilometers from Kurdzhalio From this crossing the
distance to Asenovgrad is about 64. kilometers. This makes Asenovgrad about
85.7 kilometers from Kurdzhali and 104 kilometers from Plovdiv.
2. The roadjwhich is in good conditionlis six meters wide and pebbled. There
are no tunnels on it. There is only one small concrete bridge on the road)
which passes very close to ravines. The road is surrounded by mountains,
especially the Topolovo-Pchelarovo (N 41-1+6 E 25-20" section which has
few inhabited places. The road is well planned with relatively light in-
clines. Among western countries this road would be considered a tourist
road because it offers magnificent views/ especially of the Rhodo1V Mountains.
It is almost certain that this road was built for strategic purposes in
order to link Plovdiv and Asenovgrad with Kurdzhali by a shorter route.
(See sketches on page 2.)
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