MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION ON DOMESTIC AFFAIRS IN BULGARIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001300280011-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 3, 2005
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: February 11, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Kimoollemoona Information on
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION FOR THE RESEARCH
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that the Bulgarian Government is planning
tho Market( gOverament "'very aeore-and that then war weuld be
MO is ooneerned because he to looking forward to an sp-
correspondent to the United ratione.
The Zulgarlan Governmony is preparing to inetall one thousand mere cote
at the Noteien concentration capp near Pernik. These, allegedly, would
be for trAretr$,alints and business on who ars foued goilty of withholding
wide, et cetera, from the government when their factories were taken over.
Konye Geo_ ev, former official of the former
ng League iu Plovdiv and * member of the Agrarian Party,
w confined in the Kutslan concentretion
of the pendtng mene7 ohmaRe are riii bmig eery strong.
approximately four
loess ago nine train car loathe of pacletaeo re receivedfrom the US
and transported to the bemement of the bank. Thic report le notoonfi
although reporto that the money is IA the bank are
aIOa town. It 90040 that very few people bolievs the Prime iiiniaterts-
5Xletatement that there will net be a Change.
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the Eulgarian Government le Low making the
forma for new money. At the moment they are getting ready to
innl forms of the etching plate for the five hundred lev note
Li havejn the center the picture of women harvesting tobacoo.
Moody it will take a siniamm of three months before the new money
to ready for distribuileet,
new geoups or Russian civilians have
appeared during the past ton days in Haskove, 3am:sal/A, Chirpan;,
and other cities ft the tame vicinity.
Lah the German4 entered.
Bulgaria in aceordance w a plan prepared jointly by the Mlnietryof War
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25X1 end the Nazis. a high-ranking officer of the Soviet
Arm requested the War ginistry to make this plan immediately available.
25X1 I the plan was delivered to tte Russians. The plan
allegedly gives the cavacities of the various roads and rail lines, width
of tunnels, et cetera.
8. As of 16 January 1948, prices of goods sold in the ?free price stores"
were as in the list below. For comparison purposes the prices on the
black market and on ration are also given;
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Nene Shoes
2,500
10i-12,030
12,00045,000
Ladies Shoes
2,300
840,010
8-40,000
'doolen Cloth for Mens
1,200
5-8,001
15,000*
Sults (per meter)
400len Cloth for lonens
7004,000
5.6,001
8-10,000
Dresses .(per meter)
Cotton Poplin Cloth
(per meter)
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3.0500
Cotton Cloth for Pajamas
(per meter)
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2,500
Cotton Cloth for sheets
(per meter)
250
1,000
3,000
Ladies Flannel Underwear
(each)
dens Cotton Stockince
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80
900
450
Ladies Cotton Stockings
250
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900
Ladies Silk Stockings
500
1,200
1,800
*The price on cloth for mens suits started out at 8,000; vas raised to
101000 and now has reached the price of 15,000.
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