PEASANT DISORDER IN PLOVDIV OKRUG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001300860003-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 2009
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: June 3, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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SECURITY INFORMATION
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
This Document contains Information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18. Sections 793 mid 794, of the U.S. Code. as
amended. no tranaasimlon or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person Is prohibited
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REPORT
DATE DISTR. I June 1953
NO. OF PAGES 1
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
In April 1952, the Bulgarian authorities quickly suppressed peasant rebellion
in the villages of Sekirovo, Popovitsa, Rogozehe, Zlatosel, Brezovo, General
Nikolaevo, Otets Paisiy, and other localities, all in the Plovdiv Okrug. The
peasants had refused to work in the agricultural cooperatives and fiery were
arrested and imprisoned.
A large number of partisans known as the Gorieni (forest-men) are putting kip
resistance to the Bulgarian regime. The mayor of the village Slatosel was kil
when, disguised as a gypsy, he attempted tc enter the ranks of the Goriani in
order to denounce then? The Gori,ani receive little assistance from the poroul
because the people have little to give,
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Peasant Disorder in Plovdiv Okrug
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