INTELLIGENCE COVERAGE ON BULGARIA AND SOUTHERN RUMANIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00662R000300020010-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 1998
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: August 1, 1952
• Content Type: MEMO

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Assistant Director, Research & Reports
Thru a Chief, Materials Division
Chief, Chemicals Branch
1 August 1952
lhtelligence coverage on Bulgaria and Southern Rumania
1. The mare important products of the chemical industry of the
area south of the Transylvanian Alps, including the southern portion
of Rumania and the entire area of Bulgaria, are limited in scope.
They include approtely 25 per cent of the sulfuric acid capacity
of Rumania . /p specif ioal]3r that portion of output produced in the
oil field area around. Plroesti, and the oil field oxygen production.
The other products of the industry of importance are produced
at the recently completed Dimitrovgrad chemical combine in Bulgaria
hhere the entire domestic output of sulfuric acid ~ and avmoz
is made, ostensibly for use in fertilizer man facture, but with
conversion possible to manufacture of explosive materials.
The area defined includes production of lesser Importance of
fire crmaaicals, such as drugs and pharmaceuticals, soap, glycerine,
and some explosives, in Rumania, and in Bulgaria, of vary limited
amounts of alkalies, ca3rbides, explosives, soap, g1yeerine, and
pharmaceuticals and drugs.
2. Thum has been a fairly small quantity of intelligence
received on the area concerned.
3. Whle :Limited in mount, intelligence has been received
fairly regularly, with recent coverage confined mostly to SO reports
and FBIS items.
4. Qua:Lity of intelligence has varied from fairly reli-;.able,, as
in the case of SO reports, to not reliable, as in the case of FBIS
information, since Soviet-+ttiy`pe reporting of production information
is general]y adhered to in radio broadcasts in this area.
5. No unexprloited sources of information are known.
6. Intelligence coverage of the chemical industry in the area
concerned is not considered direly critical in view of its relative
unimportance in comparison with that of the collective Soviet Orbit.
The only exceptions which oan be taken represent relatively small
requirements in terms of domestic production, the more important
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being the aforementioned Ru tmian oil field su:.furic acid production
output of the Dimitrovgrad chemical embine in Bulgaria.
of Sian production being 1,5-20,000 metric
e acid.
trio two per year as 200 per cent acid.
Lc ton per year as nitrogen.
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