BULGARIAN GOVERNMENT USE OF RELIEF SHIPMENTS

• Document Type: FOIA
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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02954313
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• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
• Document Release Date: May 2, 2022
• Case Number: F-2020-00303
• Publication Date: February 9, 1949

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
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COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Bulgarian Government Use o Relief
Shipments
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1. During the peat year, the United Nations International Childrenls Emergency
Fund (UNICEF) has shipped, via the American Export Lines approximately five
hundred toes of powdered, skim and whole milk. The United Nations or-
ganization, (the largest proportion of whose budget is paid for by the
United States) has only the right to make inspections in Bulgaria; this
right has been denied to the United Nations by the Bulgarian Government.
2. Meanwhile, Bulgaria exporte its own milk supply either for cash payments
or as raw material for the production of casein glue. Bulgaria also uses
Its own milk supply for manufacturing glue, used primarily by the Bulgarian
plywood industry,
3. The following examples of shipments have been noted:
a. The XCHESTER, an American Export Lines vessel, departed Norfolk,
Virginia on 12 September 1948 and arrived in Burgas, Bulgaria on
8 October 1948 with a cargo of 958,126 pounds of dry skim and whole
milk. Shipping costs alone came to $22,484.42.
b. The MORD, departed New York harbor on 15 October and arrived in
Burgas on 8 November 1948 with a cargo of 1,132,379 pouads of dry
skin and whole milk. The shipping costs were 518,816.970
c. The GORSKI KCOPERATOR sailed from Varna, Bulgaria on approximately
24 October and transited Istanbul on 26 October 1948 for Haifa with
a cargo of 36 tons of Bulgarian yellow cheeses,
d. Certain American Export Lines vessels are currently returning from
Bulgaria with cargoes containing palm cheese. No mention is made
of the destination of these cargoes.
4. UDECEF shipments to Bulgaria are not limited to dairy products but included,
for example, 7,352 boxes of lard (4700528 pounds) which arrived in Burgas
on 14 January 1910 on the EXECUTOR. It is an established fact that the
Bulgarian Oovernment is offering for sale abroad Bulgarian pork nYld pork
fat in exchange for ball bearings and machinery�
5. Another charity organization, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee,
had shipped 6,943 pounds of grape Jan to Bulgaria on the EXCHESTER.(see
Bulgaria exports nearly all of its fruit crop.
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