BULGARIAN PROPAGANDA, MAY 1952

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00039R000200170029-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 23, 2012
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: August 15, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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BULOAIAN PROPAGANDA, MAY `1952
Omitted. in the tabulation are certain feature articles of the
newspaper which appear more or less regularly each month, such as "In the
Soviet Union', In the Peoples' Democracies" and "Party Lire", :It may be
said that there was considerably e less space devoted to these features in
May than in April. Amplifying comment on some of the themes follows.
beginning of the month. Announcement of the monetary reforms wit
abolition of rationing on May 11 occu ied the complete issue for that day
The following is ;a presentation of the main themes in Bulgarian
propaganda ?or the month off' May 1952 as ?'ound in abotnich .sl~o D 1o, Gaily
newspaper, organ of the Central Committee o? the Bul~arian'Communist Party.
The propaganda has?been dividded into three large categories; a) Domestic
b) Anti-West c) International Communist, and arranged within these categories
in the order of their. apparent importance to. the Bulgarian Communist Party
as Judged by the amount of space and the prominence accorded them. Only
those themes are included which were carried at least five days during the
month.
During May domestic news had, the lion's share of space, about twice
as much as anti-west and international communism, combined. AntI-US
propaganda suffered a drop in quantity compared to April (`1,253 vs 828
column inches). Possible reasons are the fact that the four main domestic
themes (see below) pushed much of the usual international news from the
paper, and the fact that BW/CW`propaganda dropped sharply in comparison
to April (from about 800 to a little more than 100 column inches)
More than half the total space for May was devoted to domestic affairs.
Poptomov's death competed for space with the`May Day propaganda in the
and was carried very heavily for a week or so afterwards, diminishing
gradually toward the end of the month.
Preparatory propaganda of. the Fatherland Front Congress began in modest
proportions on 5 May and gradually increased, culminating on 29 May with a
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Nay Day, Foptomov's death, the monetary .re?orm, and the Fatherland
Front Con rec3 accounted L'or about three qusrters o? the domeatlc coverage.
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