WARNING TO YOUTH SEEN BULGARIAN SPY TRIAL ASSESSED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100410004-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: January 2, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

C>:Hx1STIAN SCIEtINC JAN 2 1964
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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
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aid to "bourgeois Western in
Black of Princeton Uni;
nnnrnc t Cyril. _
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Onlat-S b, a vuuttLllll5L ae-
Py trial, therefore, cusatious that he was involvct
ookc very mach lik
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th
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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
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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
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