BULGARIAN ARMY MANEUVERS AND ARMY RESISTANCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500830033-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2003
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: July 23, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Bulgarian Army Maneuvers and Army Resistance
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1? Anita of the 14_th infantry Diyta1on have be gaged in maneuvers in the regions
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isouth of Plovdiv, since 28 Apr 54. Maneuvers?were still in progress in MaY
.L,);? 2. Units of the division known to have taken part include the 6th, 27th. and 32nd
Infantry. Regiments ,? the 16th and 59th Motorized Regiments, and the 5th Artillery
Aegiment._
3. Reconnaissance aircraft participated In the maneuvers, but the units from which
they Dame have not been identified.
4. Either disaffection exists in the army itself, or also resistance big depotare
close to army installations. On the night of 30 Apr and 1 11ay 54 a The epotoalon
belonging to III Corps at Sara.Bunar (west of Novo Zagora) blew up.
took place in.the_early hours of the morning. Firo_destr9yed most of. the depot.
Eight guards and some others have been arrested for sabotage. On 3 May 54,
nationalists blew up the gasoline depot near Elena, located 45 kilometers from the
permanent supply center for motorized army unite.
5. The losses will be t?p some degree made good by shipments from tankers l a stored
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line at Pe.rovo[pig/,south of Varna (Sts}in) on 2,3 and. 4 ).y 54. This was underground depots south of.Kilnovo, 32 kilometers from the coast. Tractors and The
automobiles for the Bulgarian Army reached the port of Meaevna Liz on 5 k.y
automobiles were five-ton armored cars. They were taken over by a Soviet detachment
ent still near the port.
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6. Efforts of Bulgarians to escape from the country still continue, aometiaea with
tragic results. In early May 1954, Qeorgi Nilcolov Nedelkov, aged 27,rrom Estara Zagora
5piR7 , got aoroso the frontier illegally. ,When heIwas 300 meters inside Turkish
territory, three Bulgarian frontier guards op=.@g Else and brought his down with
a bullet in the head. When, however, the Bulgar guards crossed into Turkish
territory to get the body, the Turkish frontier guards, after proper warnings,
opened fire an them. One of the Bulgars was wounded. His companions aided his
in returning to Bulgarian territory but they blundered into a ?.u.ae field and
were all threw blown up. i'
7. The disaffection suggested by these incidents is Ming remedied, in part, by
sending Bulgarian students to the USSR. On 3 Hay 54, high Soviet officials held
a meeting to test 3,210 technical st_udenta. Of these, 830 came from the hlgdrr
schools. The group as a whole came from Turnovo, Shuman, Sliven, Yambol, and
Stara Zagora. After examination, many of. these students will be sent to the USSR
for various kinds of specialization. The 830 fron~the higher schools (or a
selection from their number) will be sent to Moscow to attend the school of
military aviation.
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