WARNING TO YOUTH SEEN BULGARIAN SPY TRIAL ASSESSED

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CIA-RDP75-00149R000100410004-5
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June 17, 1999
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January 2, 1964
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C>:Hx1STIAN SCIEtINC JAN 2 1964 NIONI Ip2i-ove For Release 1999/09/17 : EIAIMP r' 0 CPYRGHT CPYRGHT is 7~~~?aing to '~T~AtiHtJi Secw befell the legation in Sofia 'during the current trial of a former Bulgarian diplomat charged with spying for the ,United States, The last ocrei. ion in fact was ithcn-af in the wa ke t the U-2 affair In the spring of 1960, and since ter Moscow's first cau- Itious wait-and-see period of American' missions In Com- munist Eastern Europe have been subjected to the demon- strative treatment as that which Bulgarian Spy Byi Eric Bourne ,Spec(al Correspondent of The Gutettan Science Monitor Vienna new presidency of John F. 'Kennedy-the general process has been almost entirely in the ,opposite direction. { To varying degrees, all the Eastern European regime lead- ers have sought to improve relations and contacts with the rUnited States. Bulgaria was no exception. American relations with Sofia were in 'fact re- newed only five years ago after a 10-year interval of going back to American withdrawal ,in reply to Bulgarian allega- tions-subsequently quashed- .against its minister there. Six months ago, Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Free- man, first American Cabinet officer ever to 'visit the new Sofia regime, was, given the sort of VIP treatment reserved for the Soviet bloc's own po- tentates. Soon after, the Amer- ican Minister, Mrs. Eugenie Anderson, appeared in a Sofia )television program marking American Independence Day. Bulgaria has sought Ameri= ,can wheat.as anxiously as any to make good deficiencies In its .own agriculture and. Soviet shipments. The decision, therefore, to tallow the trial of Prof. Ivan- ;Asen Khristov Georgiev, one !time member of Bulgaria's 'Permanent mission to the United Nations, to erupt Into a public outburst of anti- American sentiment is against the stream of the past year and to that extent has Western 'diplomats weighing what it is all about. The methodical manner of assembly made it, clear the demonstration was, a fully. or- amzeand o lc a y intended sonable contacts might well of the American College In affair. have been no more than normal Bulgaria. Cyril attended this Careful Ili-nits seem also ?to conversations any intelligent school and is also well-known have been set. For example, diplomat would seek, in Bulgaria. one to two police on )land did It underlines also how'thin The official Indictment against not prevent the overturning of can be the substance on which Mr. Georgiev, published re- a legation car, but they did re- the co-existence policy is built. cently in the leading Bulgarian' strain one hothead who tried But normally such occasions regime papers, named Profes- to siphon gas from the tank. have not been a pretext on sor Black as the principal In response to legation calls, which policy is changed as the American "spy" in contact with. more police arrived-after the Soviet conduct after the U-2 Mr. Georgiev and named places windows had been well and subsequently showed. and dates which were said to thoroughly shattered but in For their own Bulgarian rea- have figured in meetings ?be- time to disperse the mob and %sons the Bulgarians have twcen the two men. terminate the demonstration elected to dress up this trial on Professor' Black slated cate- before it got out of hand. There order to contrive their own de- gorically: "I have never met was no effort at molestation of terrent so to speak before en- Mr. Georgiev on any occasion legation personnel. thusiasm, especially of the and. had "intfact never heard of, Two Sofia broadcasts as the youth, for the new wind of in him before. the announcement; Georgiev case opened offer creased Western contact be of., the trial ';oil Dc9c. 21." clues as to real meaning of this comes dangerous, O nce the broken windows oilI One as a dark warning Sofia's Alexander Stanlboliskvi gainst ? "Russian - sneaking Street are restored and -1 :4, ator is to be taken seriously pests still be pursuing its own its own rating Bulgarian government' Chan)ices. ,CS Denied In the other, a 'Communist Special to The Christian Soiclice Monitor Specially. warned young people In an exclusive interview 'h h d 1 _-1__ --- I _ . __ o a - - ~s?- t, .uunc. rror. aid to "bourgeois Western in Black of Princeton Uni; nnnrnc t Cyril. _ I t . Onlat-S b, a vuuttLllll5L ae- Py trial, therefore, cusatious that he was involvct ookc very mach lik A-4- -- _ e th i a+, you -? ?-?ts~? -as this 011 charges of spying for 'th riter was able in some way to united St tes . a ew months ago-7-is responding, J , h s pulnu-ny-j7 denial of of t th C o the ommunist,)) possibilities of the new charge e 4 was given in a tape - O-existence and the nnnnritmi_ -- -.1 . . . - ontact with the West and cis 1u' '?"d"dtie Ana oroaacast' by RF1. tq the Bulgarian` peo Ling Westerners. ..,_ re clearly Intended to revive. - "" D171c,c s; iatner; Id hneovmon anA Floyd Blaclt, servedlasdirectoi'? iPicial policy; aild that any) ee-wheeling outside them is' of going to be tolerated. The handling of the Georgievs se, therefore, seems to have, mething In common with that the Barghoorn case recently Moscow. It. certainly shows uae? anan'a aupRgsed., tree Approved For Release ;, 19.9.9/09.11,7 CIA-RD P75.00749000100410004-5 ,