RUMOR OF DIMITROV'S ILLNESS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000800840006-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 2000
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: September 4, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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Approved For Release 2001/03/05: CIA-RDP82-00457R00080084
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
COUfITRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Rumor of Dinitrov v s Mines
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1,, Tke Prime Minisd r of Bulgaria is reported to have had a physical
breakdown at th-,= conference recently hold at Bled, YugoslaTia< He
returned to Baal! .ria a very sick an and Immediately tkereaf'tnnr
went into retir meant. His present rrhereabouts are unknown. It has
been rumored thwt. the Prime Minister is in Russia reporting on the
oonferenoe. on 11 August the newspapers in Bulgaria stated that
Dimitrov has ta'r,en leave for one month.
2 Since 9 Septes8b r the Bulgarian pcublic has had access to the former
Royal summer pace at 1?uxinoczrad and its grounds, Suddenly, on
1 August the palt'ce and the entire grounds were closed to the publi.-
According to thew guards on duty at the entrance to, the palace groun<
"foreign diploma=ts of importance are now there" but the public will
again be adasitt