HARVESTING PROBLEMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000900280007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 15, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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LL S. OFFICTh.L5 GRIT
CENTRAL -INTELLIGENCE GROUP
WTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Harvesting Problem
DATE.
DIST. ' epte er 1947
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ughout the, country the garlari government is employing the am 3d forces, the
labor arty and the youth brigades to gather in the new harvest. Even smal1
holders are not exempt from this imposition.
2. The purpose of the measure is to have the harvest either taken by tr?sc ps directly
to prearranged dumps, or guarded in the fields where it has been gat cared. The
wheat is finally sent to government depots.
3. All this has ,not, however, prevented sabotage by the peasas, who ar,. themselves
thus deprived of the fruit of their year' s labor. Numerous fires in. cornfields
have occurred; corn has been stolen during the night, and peasants have left wheat
ling here and there in stalks along their fields for gathering a fte:}? the departure
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14. 1, 500
farmers or peasants have been arrested for sabotage,, 145 village meyo:?s dismissed
for dereliction of duty or favoritism shown to private owners, and '? l? ewes of
firing of wheat dumps have occurred in the country. It i s, however,, r. stimated that
the number of cases of wheat dumps fired is double that of the offic . 2 figure.
prom intormatiojn now available, it is clear that the government has ?.sit been able
to meet "the requirements of the Two Year Plan and assure a supply o," -,rain sufficient
for the next year. The deficit amounts to more than 3S percent.
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