PURGE OF SECURITY POLICE OFFICIALS/POSSIBLE TRIAL OF PROMINENT POLITICAL LEADERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00926A004200040042-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 1, 2012
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: August 27, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Purge of Security Police Officials ssible Trial NO. OF PAGES 1
of prominent political leaders
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"At the beginning of last Aprils a number of met officials of the Bulgarian
Security Police Darjavna Sugurnost) were arrested in Sofia
2. *The ill-famed Inspector Zeev was eanong those arrested.. Re was known and ,rw4 11
feared as a sadist and. cruel tormentor of prisoners examined at the Sofieu^ 1-num
police headquarters. Zeev was the man who had. questioned. Peter Koyev,
member of the Peasant Party, in such a way that the late Nikola Petkov
-raised. the matter in the Bulgarian parliament.
3. "Anton Kirylev, director of the department of investigation of the police,
was also arrested.
"A number of former prominent political leaders are now in the hands of the
Bulgarian political police and 1111101` has it that they are being prepared. i
for some new show trial. Their families have not succeeded. in getting in
' touch with them. The men in question are: Stoytcho Noshamov, former leader
of the Democratic Party, one of the negotiators for a cease-fire With the
Western powers; Dr Atanas TiloaEov, Socialist leader* General Ivan Velkov,
one of the authors of the omit d'etat on June 9, 19123. All three men were
taken by the police from the Selene forced labor camp last October. Even
earlier, the police? took away from the? same camp Lazar PonovskournaLizt
and former consul general in Istanbul.
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