ANTI-YUGOSLAV ACTIVITIES IN BULGARIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003800190006-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 24, 2006
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: November 21, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

CLASSIFICATION T
Approved For F eftFM Tl.ALA-RDP82-00457R003800190006-8
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION
COUNTRY Bulgaria/Yugoslavia/Albania
SUBJECT Anti-Yugoslav Activities in Bulgaria
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. The appointment of Marshal Rokossovaky as Minister of Defense in Poland has'
intensified the bad morale of the Bulgarians. The Bulgarians feel that the
recent arrests is placing the country under complete Soviet damin.ation0 In
view of the purges that have been carried cut there are few elements let
in the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Ccur-uniat Party who resent thy., ex-
tent of Soviet control,
2m The Bulgarians are reportedly taking every advantage of L:acedonian nationalism,
The majority of the agents employed in anti-Yugoslav activities are of :+:Iacedcnian
origin0 Ivan Mihailov, the ;.Iacedonien VITRO loader, is playing both sides but
is finding the game diff iculte Throughout Yugoslav-I.:acedonia Ccxninforn, cells
are being established The Bulgarians are enlisting 1 acodonian aid by : x-
ploiting nationalism and anti-Yugoslav and anti-Bulgarian senti ents0 The
Bulgarians are aware, hcavever, that though at present receptive, the Iiacodonians
at the very first opportunity would use arras to fight for independence.
8. The purpose of the present trials is to discredit Tito and his regime k; order
to ore ate in the Bulgarians an atmosphere favorable for armed intervention in
YugoslaviaQ Collective action by all the satellites is not imperative The
pretext for action could easily be found in Bulgarian-Macedonia. Isere (stain-.
form strategy would be to coordinate internal opposition to Tito in adjacent
Yugoslav Macedonia with an overall plan of action already prepared by th.o
Soviet unions
4. In Bulgaria tt`ro-man teams are undergoing terrorist training. They will ontor
Yugoslavia clandestinely to assassinate personalities of the regime. and sabotage
strategic, industrial and military establishments0 The teams will be aYcfaed
with. machine-guns, knives, hand grenades of 'igoclav make and revolvers Each
team will have four bombs, weighing three kilograms each, with clockworJ:
mechanism, The chief instructor for these teams is Soviet Major Todor i.:ailov3
who is assisted by ilikola Rrrnov, Bulgarian-Ttacedonian Police official.
Identical teams of terrorists are in Albania, training in a villa four 3ilo-
documef4 Is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL In accordance with the
letter of 113 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the.
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