PRINCETON TEACHER DENIES LINK TO BULGARIAN SPY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100410006-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2003
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ipiincetoa Teacher Denies
Link,-`& ufgarian Spy
? fessor of Russian history today
denied. he was., the American
Contact man for a Bulgarian who
confessed yesterday he was a
spy for the United States.
The. profeiisor, Dr. Cyril E.
Black, was named by Ivan Asen
,Christof Georgiev as the man to
whom he passed Bulgarian se-
crets during two years Georgiev
was No. 2 man of the Commu-
nist nation's delegation to the
United Nations.
Georgiev, 56,.pleaded guilty
yesterday in Sofia, Bulgaria, to
spying for the U. S. Central In-
telligence Agency. He said he
leaked information to Black,
who, Georgiev said, used the
name Anderson as a CIA agent.
'Complete Fabrication'
. Black, 4S, called the allegation
"a complete fabrication."
"It is so preposterous," he
said, "that it should not be dig-
~nified by a detailed rebuttal."
This was the second time Dr.
Black's name has come up in
Bu}garian ' spy trials.
~ During the espionage trial ofi
43 Protestant clergymen in So-
lia in 1949, a witness testified
thAt Dr. Black asked him to col-
lect Russian military secrets.
Served In Sofia
Dr. Black was at that time
secretary of the American Peace
Treaty Mission in Sofia.
Dr. Black said this was an
"equally preposterous" allega-
tion.
`The Bulgatan Communists
.have found it " nvenieot to use
my name becaie of my long as-)
said.
"I lived in Bulgaria as a boy
from 1925 to 1934 at a time
when my family. was prominent-
ly associated with American ed-
ucational work in Bulgaria.
"During World War 11, I
served in Bulgaria for a year
(1944-45) as a State Department
representative on the Allied
Control Commission after the
armistice when the country was
under Allied occupation"
Father Headed College
Dr. Black's father, Floyd H.
Black, headed the American Col-
lege In Bulgaria from 1925 to
the outbreak of World War 11.
Many English-speaking persons
in Bulgaria were trained there,
he said.
Dr. Black said the apparent
purpose of the introduction ofi
his name in the spy trial "is to
counteract the warm feelings
most Bulgarians have for Amer-
icans and to warn them against
associations with us now that
contact between the two coun-
tries is becoming freer."
"Fabrications like the ones
made in these trials," he said,
"are familiar Communist tech-7
niques, but the revival of staged
trials Is an ominous develop-
ment In East-West relations."
Never Heard of Georgiev
Dr. Black, a native of North
Carolina, said he had no idea
who "this person" (Georgiev) is.
"He might have been paid by'
us; who knows?" he said. "But I
never heard of him." 1
Dr. Cyril E. Black
Princeton for 24 years. In 1958,.
he was a member of a three-man'
team sent by the State Depart
ment to study elections in Rus-:
ala.
He edited the book, "The
Transformation of Russian So
ciety," a compilation of, the
writings of 38 Soviet experts on
changes in the Soviet Union over-,
lashed in 1960,
Dr. Black has taught at
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