MILITARY AND ECONOMIC INFORMATION FROM THE PLEVEN AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011200520006-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: March 28, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Military and Economic Information
from the Pleven Area.
DATE OF
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS tNFORNAT ION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 799
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1. The following units are stationed at Pleven-and vicinitye
a. The 9 Division Headquarters;
b. The ~+ Infantry Regiment, returned from summer maneuvers on 28 September
195-;
c. The 1+ Engineer Regiment, recently returned from summer maneuvers;, and
d. The ~+ Artillery Regiment, garrisoned in the ninth city ward, equipped. with
large tractor-drawz2 Soviet guns,
A spinning m1.11, which employs approximately 3,00 laborers on three.
shifts. per day, is located between the new and the old Pleven. railroad
stations.
per yjand produces canned. meat, tomatoes; and preserves., is located.
approximatelyr 2Q0 meters north of'the new Pleven railroad station..
A large cement plant, which employs approximately 600 laborers: on three
shifts per day, is located three kilometers west of Pleven..
~. A canning p],.ant, which employs approximately 600 laborers on three shifts
da
rom. .even to the Bulgarian-Turkish border.
There is an ammunition-depot composed of 25 to 3p buildings located in a
restricted area south of Pleven.
2, In Apr31 1951, the 9 Artillery Regiment, equipped with tractor-drawn guns,.
was transferred f P1
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7. The Bulgarka Spinnix~r Mill, which employs approximately x+00 laborers on
three shifts per day,- is located north of Pleven on the. Pleven.- Nikopol
.highway artery.
8. A rubber plant.! which employs approximately x+00 laborers on three 8-hour
shifts per day and produces rubber boots,. sandals, and rubber shoes, is
located in the vicinity of the Bulgarka Spinning Mill.
A sugar refinery,. which employs approximately 700 to 800 laborers on
three 8-hour shifts per- day, is located at Dolna Mitropoliya approximately
15 kilometers from Pleven.
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