BULGARIAN REACTION TO LATEST CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90B01370R000801060015-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 30, 2010
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: July 30, 1984
• Content Type: CABLE

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SUBJECT: BULGARIAN REACTION TO LATEST CONGRESSIONAL
HEARINGS
1. ON JULY 28 ALL MAJOR NEWSPAPERS CARRIED A SIGNED
COMMENTARY BY BTA "POLITICAL OBSERVER" NENCHO KHRANOV
ENTITLED "WHOM DOES THE U.S. ANTI-BULGARIAN CAMPAIGN
SERVE"? THE ARTICLE WAS ALSO CARRIED ON THE BTA WIRE
JULY 28 (FBIS REPORTED TEXT IN AU271940).
2. KHRANOV CHARACTERIZED THE RECENT HOUSE HEARINGS,
AND THE JUNE 28 SENATE AMENDMENT AS BEYOND THE BOUNDS
OF "NORMAL DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN TWO COUNTRIES".
KHRANOV CRITICIZED THE U.S. POLICY OF DIFFERENTIATION,
WHICH HE CHARGED SEEKS TO DISCREDIT THE FOREIGN AND
DOMESTIC POLICIES OF BULGARIA. NOT ONLY "PROFESSIONAL
ANTI-COMMUNIST" SENATOR D'AMATO, BUT ADMINISTRATION
OFFICIALS BURT AND DEA'S JOHN LAWN WERE CALLED TO
"GIVE SPEECHES FULL OF SLANDERS".
3. HE REITERATED THE USUAL TUNE ON BULGARIA'S HISTORY OF
DRUG SEIZURES, CITING THIS YEAR'S MAJOR BUST: JANUARY
18-52.7 HG MORPHINE; MAY 4-29 KG HEROIN; MAY 26-21.3 KG
HEROIN; JUNE 13-12 KG HEROIN; JULY 7-10 KG HEROIN
HE ALSO PROVIDED THE USUAL QUOTES FROM U.S.CUSTOMS
OFFICIALS AND FORMER AMBASSADOR PERRY ABOUT BULGARIA'S
POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION TO COMBATTING DRUG SMUGGLING.
4. KHRANOV CONCLUDES THAT WHILE THE ANTI-BULGARIAN
CAMPAIGN IS PART OF AN OVERALL STRATEGY TO FREEZE RE-
LATIONS WITH BULGARIA AND TO WORSEN EAST-WEST RELATIONS,
HE hP? ED THAT THERE ARE REASQNAELE PEOPLE IN CONr..RESS WHO
WILL SEE THE TRUTH.
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5. OTECHESTVEN FRONT STARTED JULY-30 WHAT LOOKS TO BE
A LENGTHY SERIES OF ARTICLES CAHARGING THAT THE "BULGARIAN
CONNECTION" WAS A CIA FABRICATION AND THAT THE WESTERN
SECRET SERVICES KNEW THE POPE WAS TO BE THE TARGET OF AN
ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT.
6. COMMENT: A SIGNED COMMENTARY IS A STEP BELOW A BTA
DECLARATION, SUCH AS WAS ISSUED AFTER THE JUNE 28 HELMS
AMENDMENT WAS PASSED. THE COMMENTARY BREAKS NEW GROUND
FOR THE DOMESTIC READERSHIP, REVEALING MORE DETAILS ON
ACCUSATIONS AGAINST BULGARIA THAN HAVE BEEN REVEALED PREVIOUSLY.
LAKE
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