GEMETO ASSISTANCE COMMITTEE FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS IN BULGARIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R010100020001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 19, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION EC1 Tf C0iJ'.t1 L - U.S. OFFICIALS parr
CENTRAL IN LLINCE AGENCY REPORT
INFO MATkO i REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Yugoslavia/Bulgaria
SUBJECT Gemeto Assistance Committee for
Political Prisoners in Bulgaria
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ld In the Spring of 1951, the Gemeto Assistance Committeel, which is described
as an unauthorized and illegal Committee, was organized in Belgrade. This
Committee is composed of former members of the Bulgarian Agrarian Party and
devotes its efforts to sending food packages to political internees in
Bulgarian concentration camps. It is supported by voluntary contributions
from sympathizers. Recipients of the food packages who have ample money
are requested to donate 5,O00 lava. to the fund.
2. The headquarters for the Bulgarian branch of the Committee is located in a
small room in a house on Dondukov Street, Sofia. One of the directors of
former candidate for Parliament,
CCommepts The word Gemeto derives from a contraction of the
name of Georgi M. Dimitrov.
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