"REACTIONARY" BULGARIAN OFFICERS ARRESTED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500820192-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Sequence Number: 192
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2006/11/03: CIA-RDP80-00809AO00500820192-5
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SUBJECT "Reactionary" Bulgarian Officers Arroeted
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INFORMATION REPORT
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1. Three offioer s atld' two NCO.CS of the ' 34th Infantry, stationed at Vitos (Sofia
AWW 'caster) were arrsstid ? 4 far- 51 ~. ' Thay are accused' Qf be3onging to a
reeationary" orrauisation, with its oOnt+pr at Proinik iy7.northwest of Sofia.
The arrested offloerO a'rti Captain-*t 44- Teeanenov, Captain Dimiso Zarev,
and Captain Todor Abetjev. The arrested 100ts-ire Hinol Abatjev and Sava
4itahev, . exa.ot 2* 4 ~ttkDOWap Two other officers were arrested the next
day but their nines have not boom ascartaiiodt.
2. These men were denonaae*4 by a women mused'Dbra Astarova. The Jnquiry is in
the hands of a Soviet politioal?--s>xiasar, Viado Ratiniev. The two localities
where the arrests ware made have been isolated. People in them are now living
in a state of terror: It is reported that an az'e depot belonging to the
clande'etine orgiidtation of which these nerr were"siedatiere has been found.
In it ware tthirty-two taea n rifles, twenty-one grenadoa, eight &flgar "Naganta
pistols, and immunition. Five, other persons, not in the military service have
been arrested. Their ;;Sao are not known.
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