REPORTED SOVIET SPRING PLAN FOR A FREE MACEDONIAN REPUBLIC COMPRISING PARTS OF BULGARIA NEAR THE GREEK-YUGOSLAV BORDER

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 3, 2003
• Sequence Number: 170
• Publication Date: November 11, 1998
• Content Type: REPORT

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THIS ,.I'S $ UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
During thre period 16 Fobruary - 16 March 1950, avel- able] monitored. broedceytt3 fraL
satellite, Tugoelav, Greek, and Turkish treiiamitiers ins].ude few and generally periph*,re 1.
references to tit-' Macedonian question.
"1%,% .;1a7 Plan to Create a Macedonian State"
gyzer~l.
An .> onre brese nT~t of 9 March alaima that there~haa been "a definite adc3no3 in UP)
Sin, ;lia~~ to create an Sndepondentl Macedoni W14 tate," ei4tending into Vardar and Aegean
tdeaced.ania. "withi i the framework of a Bela l FederatignV,,' Bulgeria'a Irem.ior' Cherv nkov is
Said to be the originator of this plan whioh 'wauSd first make Monastic (3ito1i) and le tor
Salor..ike the capital of a Macedonian Btateerith`its Isotthern front on the river Alial,mon.
The broadc: n as the "Ccavnuniet
~ claims that Chorvedcov in u 1lsiag the ;KOEM which poi
organization for Aegean Macedonie, IT but Which in fact^.~ is a Bulger Lars organization,
a Vi?ms
A 28 February broadcast by the clandestine ,Yugoele~ l;adio Sava ropartcf, under
that "a great guerrilla action is being PreparsLi~clothed~ovietauniteointo Bulgaria," nni
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is Said that there are daily infiltrations =o
that these units "are being sent to the Bulgarian' barber. There area great number of armored
care in Varna, and they are also incroaai1g their air force. In some months, the Sovie'.a will
have about 1,000 planes in Bulgaria, IF
Terror and Dar.3tionalization in Pirin Macsdonia
On the other hand. there are a fe reports to the el tthatABBu nowaiservioeiroportaloa914
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denationalizing Maeedonlens in Pirin Nlnaadcnia;
March that Macedonian bookshops have been,cleyet dawn; fend that "the Bulgarian Foreign Minister
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has begun asserting that an anti-Bulgaria, D4ol1CF ii?.being virried out in ii' LA. L3 4c7i`~a1
People's Republic of Macedonia in order 46 ~ttat iy the' denstionalizhti,)n policy in t%.-1 part. of
Macedonia under Bulgarian rule. "
of weaknesses. in the Party organize
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On. 22 February, ' bands of terrorists have been die-
tion" in Pirin Macedonia, claims that although sever ah
cov'3red. a -i disarmed and same cases of Koatovism explored, the Party's "vigilance has not, cane
up to expectations, " Because Pirin Macedonia "boo2'dere ion the frontiers of the Imperialist
powers--the 'Pitoites and the Greek monaroho faeois ii-c', ;brad because it Ilia a trench faci-rg en&'u
ponition_14, , , . 'solehevik habits must be developed, eater efforts must be exerted towards
building aucia:_:'.am, and greater vigilance is requiredt Sofia does t ay, however, that the
victory of Socialism is the only Tway to ralise_theidoele' 03 the b~acedonian Nation and to
becone
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,1n 'obruary, &d.io Sava claims that Macedoni a >Aet3'or>,a]iats rin Macedonia '"n-44,0
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