REMOVAL OF POMAKS AND OTHER ANTI- COMMUNISTS IN BULGARIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001900860002-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 5, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 20, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL I pC& jJQY REPORT NO. '
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COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT
DATE DISTR. 20 October 1948
Removal of Pomaks and ' Vii:n'~ ~TIAL
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SUPPLEMENT TO
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1. The Pomak fami'ies arrested on 25 July by the Bulgarian police
were taken to Dobrudjla near the Bulgaro-Rumanian border. They
were not placed in concentration camps but in various villages.
They were not, 'however , permitted to communicate smith their
relatives.
2. Late in August the police went to the villages from which
these Pomaks had been taken and sealed their-houses. The
police made a new census of all the Pomaks' household effects.
'farm implements, et cetera and transferred all the large
livestock (cows horses and mules) to the places to which
the Pomak families had been removed, since their stay in these
places was regarded as definitely decided. such small animals
as sheep and goats were distributed by the police among the
various herdsmen of the villages from which the Pomnks had been
removed.
4. The same thing happened to the families of Bulgarian (i.e.
non-Pomak) anti-Communists who were arrested on 15 July In
Cheelare and on 4 May in "rda.
5. The Pomaks in Bulgaria discussing this measure assort that It
is designed to remove fro : the territory bordering Greece and
nrobsb]y also Turkey those persons who are unsympathetic to the
present Bulgarian regime. such families are being tr-'nsferred
to a region which is "safer" for the authorities.
6. Similar mass'arre--ts and rc'movals have recently been observed
in several other localities.
7. In the region of the mines of t dany about 2C-30 puerrillas
ippenred at the end of August 1948. Some of them were armed
and some were not. The bank included both Btu lpa.rians and Pomaks..
This year's crops were gathered through drafted labor and were
turned over of to the local cooperatives. It is said that
real property o e Pomaks will be nationalized, and that
the State will give the Pomaks similar properties In the
n1aces to -ihieh they have been removed.
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