BULGARIA'S KATYN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500790213-5
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Sequence Number: 213
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Bulgaria's Katyn
PLACE ACQUIRED
(BY SOURCE)
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15 Jan 1954
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1. Almost midway between Kyustendil and Stanke Dimitrovo (formerly Dubnitsa)
near the road, very close to a small village called Tzarna Niva there are
literally thousands of graves, also ditches filled with bodies (mass graves).
This location is kept strictly secret by Bulgarian Communist authorities.
2. It is probable that these bodies come from the districts of Dubnitsa, Radomir,
and Kyustendil.. They are believed to be the bodies of individuals condemned
without trial, by action of the Communist alone, taken out in the country,
shot and buried. In such cases, the victim is reported to have ?disappeared.^
This is an old Bulgarian game, not unknown elsewhere in the Balkans.
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