FACTORIES IN BULGARIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011500130006-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 7, 2006
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 11, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

IKIELLUFAX 21
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FEB 1962
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
CLASSIFICATION SECRET/CONTR0L. U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
CD NO.
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Factories in B
25X1
DO N
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
1. To tire factories in the Sofia area were started up recently and are pro-
duts:ing very poor quality tires; the tires bear no comparison with those
produced by the Bakish factory in Sofia before World War II. One Of the
factories is located in the northern. suburbs of Sofia., the other is in
Iliyantsi, 10 miles east of Sofia, between_Sofia:"and. Bukhovo.
2. The Zavod Voroshilov, formerly called the Zakharna Fabrika ~uga?F factory)
11 anci n~e11nns-sized electric motors.
in Sofia, recently began co-nstructing,sma
The Nadezhda armaments factory, located in the western outskirts of Sofia on
the road leading to Berkovitsa, produces portable weapons and light guns.. New
machinery of Czech origin has been installed recently.
1. A penicillin factory is planned for construction in Sofia. Manufacturing
problems are now being investigated at the laboratories of the Aleksandrov
hospital in Sofia.
5. A mixed Soviet-Bulgarian commission is investigating the possibility of in-
11 t ircraft factory which is pro-
creasing the output of the Sofia-Bozhurs e a ,
d.ucing aircraft parts and repairing engines at present, It is reported that
the factory will e able to produce engine spares and complete fuselages by
AL" 'Aaft
the end of 1952.
New machinery has recently been installed in-the armament factory at Kazanluk.
Five hundred workers are employed at the Gavreil Genov (sic) chemical
factory in the southern (sic) outskirts of Ruse, along the banks. of the
Danube
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The Ce-0rgi : Diinttrc r factory in Ruse,, which produces turbines, diesel, engines,,
and agricultural machinery, has been equipped to manufacture tanks.. The.
factory employs 1,000 workers.
New machinery has recently been installed at theZavod Vela Piskova textile.
factories in Ruse to increase the productive capacity of. the plant. Seventy 25X1
. rc erlt o ttre .d tput..of_-the aett to-a-i ...deti-ned-for_._t he Soviet - .. forces
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