DIFFICULTIES OF ANTI-COMMUNIST PARTISANS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000100120002-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
Bulgaria,
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trapping anti-Communist partisans by means of agents provocateurs. Wherever
anti-Communist partisans are known to be operating, the authorities sand in
false groups of loyal Communists, posing as partisans. The local population
fall into thin trap in their efforts to assist genuine partitions,
One great problem of pn,rtiaan bands hiding out in the mountains and raiding
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1. The Bulgarian Communist authorities are having a goad deal of success in
at intervals, after ths. Haiduk ,a,dition, is food. In Turkish days this wa,s
easy enough, for the whole Christian population had plenty of food and could
supply Haiduko ~i,nc kom :tsad jin .a,si:1y. Today, though Pulgaria is a, food produo-
ing country, few Bulgarian citizens have any to spare, their own ai:tua,tir`.In being
precarious.
:There are other roacona why such anti-OommuniIt bands an exist ore having a
hard time. Control over movement of the population in Be strict that one
hardly ditr oa give a partisan shelter. Once it was easy for a, band of
emitad~il~ to find shelter almost anywhere. Wounded komitadji^ could oven
be nmug;glod into hospitals. The course of world affairs has #urthor operated
to discourage resistance elements from undertaking any aative operations. "t
prooQnt, nulga:rio:n resistance bands merely keep an eye on the roads, though
often without chocking. They also try to make trouble for Communist machinery
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