SECRET SOVIET CONFERENCE AT BANKI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00926A003700050009-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 23, 2003
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: June 16, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Bulgaria/USW.
SUBJECT Secret Soviet Conference' at Banki,
25X1 ACQUIRED
DATE-
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
THIS DOCUMUNT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
Of THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT 00
U. S. C.. 1 AND 42, AS AMENDED, ITS TRAN 3~UF*IION OR THE NEYILATION
Of ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UN VTNORIZED PERSON II PRO-
DATE DISTR.
16
NO..OF PAGES
2
NO. OF ENC#LS
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT. TO
REPORT NO.
. THIS .IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
"It has become -known, only now that a special mission of high muk:E Soviet
officers-arrived in utmost secrecy in.BUl.garile~. on April 25th, A special
military plane, used exclusively by the Soviegt' Embassy and the Soviet
Military Mission in Bns.1g ri.ev,, brit them from Moarcov to the airfield
of Bozurich, (Regular plan c,% of the Soyre't; A:frli&e TA :rrvf'l..ot U 'L.Iee the
nearby Vrajdebna airfield,) The passengers of the Xpecial ply were:
Cola Gen I# Z* Susaykov, Lt Ger 1. A t~both from the Armored
Troops), 1 4a4 Oen0 V. S. Zakhar'ov, Col. V. I. Gusyev (both Air Force),
Naval let Rank Capt. E. N. Bryukhanov (Navy) and Col. F. K. Agibalov,
former Chief War Correspondent of the Army paper TKCrasna ra ZvyezdaT (Red
Star.), They were accompanied by eight other staff officers from the
Soviet Army, Navy and Air Force, whose identity is nova.
2. "This mission from Moscow was joined the same day by another group-of
four JOB and MVD officers, .who arrived by plane fram.Odessa. The latter
were: ;Sa j. Gen.- Josif Martia novic
Bart_Colo Andrey F o~?ich
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