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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00662R000300020018-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 1998
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: August 2, 1952
• Content Type: MISC

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AD/RR 2 August 1952
Status of Intelligence for Bulgaria and Southern Rumania in
Respect to Air Photography, Map Coverage and Basic Geographic
Studies
I. Air Photograpi
a. Very inadequate coverage for intelligence and operational
purposes; spotty but good quality; approximately 12 percent
of Bulgaria and 20 percent of Rumania south of 45030'Nj
largely limited to industrial and urban areas, the coastal
areas of Rumania and the Greek and Turkish borders.
b. Captured German photography covering wide coastal areas
of Rumania and section north of Ploesti; U. S. photography
for principle industrial centers., oil fields., major cities
and ports and Greek border; photo analysis underway since
1954 for a few industrial areas;.. port facilities and oil
refineries; major part of available photography unexploited.
c. Little or no air photography for Yugoslav border and rail
line through central Bulgaria; Bulgarian coast scantily
covered.
Map Coverage
a. Bulgarian large-scale maps (1:25,000)., covering northwestern
and southern parts of Bulgaria and areas centering on Sofiya
and Varna, are considered reliable; Bulgarian originals
issued in 1930'a and German its during War. Bulgarian
originals at lt50,004 scale reliable,, covering same areas
and parts of Macedonia. Bulgarian maps at 1:100,000 are
completely inadequate and out of date but cover entire country.
Seventy-five percent of towns over 10C COO population covered
by pre-war town plans of variable reliability,
b. Rumanian large-scale maps (2:20,,000) are of very poor
reliability and quality and completely inadequate for
fire control; cover approximately one-third of the Rumanian
area, largely complete along Danube and Bucurepti; complete
coverage of area at 1:100.,000 scale but of very poor
reliability and quality. Town plans available for all
major towns and ports but deficient in detail and out of date.
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c. Unavailable maps include a fear sheets at 1:5?,000 scale
in central Bulgaria and along Yugoslav border and a fear
sheets at 1:20,000 scale issued during World War II,
coverinc Danube Delta and area around Bucuregti..
d. Map coverage for northern two-thirds of Bulgaria completely
unsatigfactory and inadequate for fire control. No mpg
adequate for fire control in Rumanian area.
III. Geographic Studies
Fair quality generalized studies of terrain conditions
are available in open sources. Much of this source material
is out of date and little new and detailed information
available.
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