STRENGTHEN BULGARIAN BORDER TROOPS, TIGHTEN SOVIET CONTROL; REPORT GUERRILLA ACTIVITY, SABOTAGE IN BULGARIA, RUMANIA

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• Publication Date: June 20, 1951
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INFORMATION 1951
DATE DIST.2o dun 1951
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REPORT NO.
STRENGTHEN BULGARIAN BORDER TROOPS, TIGHTEN SOVIET CONTROL;
REPORT GUF ILLA ACTIVITY1 SABOTAGE IN BULGARIA, RUMANIA
Military Activity
According to a 10 May dispatch from Edirne, immigrants arriving in that
city reported that fortifications are being constructed by night along the
Greek and Turkish borders and that troops were being concentrated in these
areas.(1) These reports were confirmed by a Bulgarian civilian who arrived
in Edirne by way of Hamzabeyi village (Lalapasa District) on 11 May. He
stated specifically that large numbers of troops had been sent to the vil-
lages of Buyuk Leska and Kucuk Leska in the Dervishka Mogila area on the
Turkish-Bulgarian 1Drder. The same source also reported that all technical
personnel of the Bulgarian and Rumanian armies are members of the Soviet
Army and that every Bulgarian unit commander hasa Soviet assistant.(2)
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The following report gives information on military prep-
arata.ons in Bulgaria and Rumania and guerrilla activity in Bul-
garia as noted in Turkish newspapers during the period 6 - 14
May 1951. Numbers in parentheses refer to appended sources.
Otter reports emanating from Bulgaria assert that the ^Talgarian Gen-
eral. Staff is now directly controlled by Soviet Army officers and that it
is believed that a Soviet marehal will shortly be appointed commander of
the Bulgarian Army, According to the same reports, recruiting offices have
sent letters to all reservists, ordering them tc active duty; soldiers
scheduled for release on 1 May 1951 are being kept under arms and all mem-
bers of the 1931 Class have been called up~(3)
According to a 5 May Turkish News Agency dispatch from Belgrade, ref-
ugees reaching there from Bulgaria have reported that Bulgarian Macedonians
living in areas close to the Yugoslav border are being deported to northern
Bulgaria, southern Dobrudzha, and along the Black Sea.(4) According to a
10 May dispatch of the same agency from Edirne, immigrants arriving there
report that Turks living in the Greek border area specifically in Kru-
movgrad, Kurdzhali, Nevrokop, Smolyan, end Momchilgrad -- are being eipelled
and sent to the Dobrich Jow Tolbukhin7 area.
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Other reports reaching Belgrade from R.mania indicate that the Rumanian
government 76 afraid. of sabotage by patriotic. citizens and is therefore taking
meaE+ureb to guard factoricn and !nstallat1,1ns vital to her war industry. In
this connection, the number of guard units in the Ploesti oil fields has been
doubled Sabotage acti.vities in the provinces surrounding the oil fields
reportedly have increased to such an extent that the government has been
obliged to declare martial law there.(l,
Guerrilla Activity
According to certain Bulgarian politicians who have fled to Yugoslavia
recently, Chc-banof, Bulgarian Minister in Ankara, during his recent trip to
Bulgaria visited the Belen labor Lamp near Svishtov to talk with Draganof,
who is considered to be the secret leader of the Bulgarian anti-Communist
guerrillas Chdbanof reportedly asked Draganof to order the guerrillas to
cease their activities and to surrender since they could not possibly with-
stand the Soviet Army, and promised that if the guerrillas did surrender,
Draganof would be released and the guerrillas pardoned. Draganof is under-
stood to have rejected the proposals and to have asserted that the struggle
would be continued regardless of cost:
It has also been reported that Asen Stamboliski, son of the famous
Aieksandr Stamboliski, has retired to the Shipka Mountains accompanied by
800 guerrillas, Guerrilla activity in the border areas has caused the
government to dispatch the 33d Infantry Regiment from Svishtov and the 19th
Infantry Regiment from Gorna Dzhumaya fow Blagoevgrad7 in an effort to
suppress it.(5)
According to information obtained from Greek military sources, the
outbreak of guerrilla resistance activity and peasant opposition to the
Sofia regime has resulted in Premier Chervenkov+s being flown to Moscow
in a special plane to receive new instructions." The same sources say
that during his absence, rumors arose that he had fled to a foreign country
and that he would be replaced by Interior Minister Poptomov. The sources
add that Chervenkov has now returned, but that a struggle for power is
actually taking place between him and Poptomov.,(6)
1. Istanbul, Vatan, 11 May 51
2. Ibid, 12 May 51
3., Istanbul, Cumhuriyet, 11 May 51
4. Istanbul, Vatan, 6 May 51
Ibid. 10 May 51
Ibid, 14 May 51
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