SAYS BULGARIA SETS UP SPECIAL COURTS TO TRY RAILROAD SABOTEURS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 7, 2011
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• Publication Date: April 5, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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SAYS BULGARIA SETS UP SPECIAL COURTS
TO TBY RAILROAD SABOTEURS
SERIOUS ACCIDENTS REPORTED -- Svenska Dagbladet, Po 52, 23 Feb 50
Belgrade -- According to information from SoPis, the Bulgarian government re-
cently has decided to establish special courts for trying railroad saboteurs. Ail
persons who "either deliberately or through carelessness" are responsible for sabo-
tage will be sentenced. This con_Pirms previous reports that a number of serious ac-
cidents were caused by saboteurs and that at times transportation has been crippled
in certain sectors.
Svenska Dagbladet's r_orrespondent has also learned from Sofia that the direc-
tors of several state lumber companies and a number of high officials of the Woods,
Forests, and Land Revenues Commission have been arrested as "enemies of the people"
and have been accused of sabotage because the planned produc*,ion of timber has not
been fulfilled. Only 6-10 percent of the stipulated quantities of lumber were pro-
duced in many districts during January sad the first half of February, affecting the
export of timber very adversely. It was stated expressly in the accusation that
the underproduction was not caused by aqy shortage of labor, but by excessive holi-
days. (Orthodox Bulgarians celebrate Christmas and Nev Year's in January.)
PLOT AGAINST BULGARIAN GOVERNMENT __ Svenska Degbladet, No 56, 27 Feb 50
A telegram from Sofia to the official British Zoae newspaper Die Welt reports
that a plot against the Bulgarian Communist regime has been discovered by t`~e secret
police in Sofia. Chief of the General Staff Kinov; General Bagrayaaov, the highest
Political Colomisear in Bulgaria; Gene: al Teschev, the commander of the Sofia garri-
son; Minister oP Transportation Markov, and a number of army officers have been ar-
rested.
The leader of the conspiracy Bras General Kinov, and the coup was to take piece,
with the support of the army, shortly after President Dimitrov's death. The plans
for the overthrow of the Communist regime had been worked out in detail, but the se-
cret police got wind of the planned coup and crushed it.
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$inov was summoned to the Soviet Union shortly before Dimitrov's death is Mos-
cow last summer. There he made pubs?c s "Dimitrov sick-bed statement," but it ie
reported that after hie arrival in Sofia he said that he had been forced to sign s
statement written out beforehand. He never did get to visit Dimitrov.
$inov is reported then to have called together s number of high-rar.4ing Bul-
gariea officers and informed them of his belief that Dimitrov had been murdered. He
urged them to aid him is overthroxing the Communist regime.
According to the newspaper, it is now expected in Sofia that the Russian Mar-
shal $oaev viii assume command of the Bulgarian Army in the same xay Marshal Rokos-
sovskiy assumed command over the Polish army.
REPORTS 90VIET TROOpB IA BULGARIA -- Cumhuriyet, Ro 9190 11 Mar 5O
Recent reports indicate that 450 officials of the Soviet Ministry of Internal
Affairs have arrived in Bulgaria to take over control of all internal affairs. So-
viet military units have also occupied the pirin and Maritza areas from which all
civilises were recently evacuated. Units of the Soviet Black Sea fleet have been
assembled in the port of Stalin.
There are increased signs that a nex purge, which rill include a majority of
the present leading Communists, will be carried out in Bulgaria.
REPORTS AATI-SOVIET MOVEMEBT IR BULGARIA _- Cumhuriyet, Po 9194, 15 Mar 50
Reliable reports reaching Belgrade iadicste that is recent months a strong an-
ti-Soviet trend has appeared among high-ranking Bulgarian Army officers as a result
of Russian interference in army affairs. It is frequently Bald that a Russian gen-
eral will be seat to Bulgaria to administer the Bulgarian Army ,just ae Rokossovskiy
is doing in poland. p large-scale purge has begun in the Bulgarian Aru~y on the pre-
text that a conspiracy had been prepared against the present regime and against the
lives of certain high personages in Sofis.
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