SOVIET PROSPECTING FOR URANIUM IN VICINITY OF KYUSTENDIL BANYA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003700590005-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 14, 2001
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: November 23, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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S11:'~J~CT Soviet Prospecting far ilraniucc
in Vicinity of Kyustendil Bait
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During 1949 Soviet and ~.ilgarisn experts disoovex~c3d ore ean~Ca.ining uranium
and radi;un in the v3ainity oS Ayusto:xiil I3ex~ya,~
2n ~t ''the beginning of Saptember 3.949 a group of Sov:tet scientists arrived td
cantirnae the exploratory ~r~orl:e The area around K,~stex~i~, Bany>:~ is now under
haavy guard, >Jntraa`oe to the region is forbidden and a large part of the local
population ha~- been sva,auated? a?fficin.le of thm I1GB oontrol the security and
police serviome. The Bulgexian ?'ilitia is not used '
This document is hereby regraded to
OONFID~NTiAL in acco 978 f omh the
letter of 16 October ante to the
girector of Central intellig
Archivist of th? United States.
Next Review fyate: 2008
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