SOVIET PROSPECTING FOR URANIUM IN VICINITY OF KYUSTENDIL BANYA
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CIA-RDP82-00457R003700590005-6
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RIPPUB
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S
Document Page Count:
1
Document Creation Date:
December 14, 2016
Document Release Date:
February 14, 2001
Sequence Number:
5
Case Number:
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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Dt~TE DISTR.. 2 NOV 49
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT N0.
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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