PROGRESS IN COLLECTIVIZATION AND INDUSTRIALIZATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80S01540R002800090002-6
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 29, 2012
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 25, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Bulgaria
25 September 1953
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. Contacts between the Bulgarian government and the new Soviet leaders, which
have lasted over six weeks, have confirmed explicitly the goodwill which
Malenkov shows toward the Bulgarian people, who "among the Slav peoples are the
most closely linked with the Soviet peoples." Molotov declared to the Bulgarian
friendship" o a present Soviet leaders, y 50X1-HUM
2. Such affirmations..may have been exaggerated to reinforce the Vulko Chervenkov
regime'in Bulgaria. However, one proof of the above declarations is the USSR's
intention to re-examine the financial agreements existing between the two states
so as to further the economic-evolution of Bulgaria by up-to-date methods. At
the same time, the Soviet attitude of reserve toward the execution of the Five
Year Plan is to be definitely considered "ad acta." In short, the quarrels
against different Bulgarian leaders, who were often accused of not having been
able to fulfill the objectives of the plan, are finally ended, and Moscow has
thus given its approbation to what the Bulgarian Government has accomplished
from the period 1949 to the present.
On the basis of the above mentioned, several measures have been agreed upon to
attain "up?to.date" methods in agricultural and industrial production and in
communications. These measures represent an amendment to the first Five-gear';
Plan and anyanticipation of future plans.
4. The results which have been obtained up to now and the reactions to
collectivization-in the various agricultural regions of Bulgaria have caused the
Government to try the following two different systems of production:
a. The first admits the existence of minor collective units (comprising, in
some specific cases, the members of only one family). This system will be'
applied in the Rhodopi and Tundzha valleys, and in the Sofia, Kameno, Pleven,
Gorna, Oryakhovo and Ruse regions.. This system will affect almost
exclusively industrial developments.
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b. The secohd aims at forming enormous land units (comprising entire provinces).
This system will be applied in the Danubian and Thracian plains, and in the
Pazardzhik, Plovdiv, and Asenovgrad zones. Only grain and cereals will be
cultivated by these very large national collective units.
5. The aim of the two systems is to reduce the agricultural population to 67 percent
of the entire population in 1953 and possibly to 58 percent during the next two
years.. The object is to provide a continually increasing number of workers to the
industries, thereby absorbing all peasants left without work by nationalization
and collectivization of agriculture.
6. Industrial increase will be accelerated by the construction of new plants. Two
large thereto-electric and some minor hydro-electric centers will be built. The
hydro-electric plants will be built along the Maritza River, and will bring the
hydro-electric plants to a total of 16 units (total production of electric power
will be 2,140 million KW). At the same time, the metallurgical combine "Vasil
Kolarov" at Varna and those at Sofia will be enlarged. Plants will be built to
produce electro-motors, electro-transformers, perforators, hydraulic hammers,
fraising and wheel machines at Pernik, Vratsa, Svoge, Stakevtsi, and Bobov Dol.
All the. necessary_machines and tools will be provided by the USSR, in accordance
with earlier agreements. The USSR will also supervise the construction of the
plants and the training of the different categories of workers.
7. 'Particular attention will be given to improving present means of communication,
which are not satisfactory in spite of the recent construction of roads, and
railways.
8. Precedence over all other construction will be given to the Ruse bridge. to connect
the Bulgarian railway system with the Rumanian one. The part of this bridge,
which goes from the Rumanian shore to an island in the Danube, is about 500 meters
long and was finished last year. The second part, which joins the island to the
Bulgarian shore, was scheduled for completion in approximately 18 months. It has
been decided, however, that the second part should be completed in only five
months' time. The bridge is to be 25 meters wide, 19 meters of which are to be
used for traffic.
9. The construction of another 271 kilometers of railroads has been approved, which
would raise the total trackage to 5,165 kilometers. Many Bulgarian railroads
will have broad gauge tracks.
10. It is believed that the new project will cause an increase of 80 billion leva
in financing the Five-Tear-Alan, which had been previously fixed at 425 billion
leva.
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