THE PORT OF STALIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000200080053-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: July 12, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT The Port of Stalin
AND 7$4. OF THE U.S. CODE. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVS.
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
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1. Stalin is the name by which the former port of Varna is now known. This is
the most important harbor in Bulgaria.
2. The Devnensko Bay area has been completely shut off from the outside world.
Civilians are prohibited from entering. Urge construction works for the
Bulgarian Navy are being carried out. Workmen employed there declare that
a whole system of underground concrete shelters is being built under Soviet
direction to serve a$ a base for Soviet submarines. The coast is hilly and
covered with forest, so nothing can be seen from outside.
3. There is a wooden, barracks in the southwest corner of the closed area, where
the works direction Is quartered, The construction-work is directed by a
Soviet technical staff of 13 men. This Soviet staff belongs to the Soviet
Navy and consists, of specialists in this kind of work. The other engineers
and skilled workers employed are all Bulgarians.
4. The following commands and units of the Bulgarian Navy are located at the port:
r~ of the Bulgarian Black Sea fleet.
Headquarters of the Bulgarian coast defense fleet.
1 Bulgarian flotilla base command.
1 lfarine infantry regiment.
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1 Marine guard battalion
1 battalion of coast artillery and 1,500 sailors on ships stationed here,
who are quartered in a naval barracks.
Depots and Workshops: The main navy ammunition sagazine; the main navy supply
depot; a navy ship's repair shop.
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