SOVIET WAR PREPARATIONS IN BULGARIA

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 353
• Publication Date: March 25, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL SINTELLIGEENCEA ENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Political; Military
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PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
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PUBLISHED Istanbul; Tehran
DATE
PUBLISHED 13 Jan, 6 Feb 1952
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SOVIET WAR PREPARATIONS IN BULGARIA
PREPARE FOR WAR AGAIRST TURKEY, flGOSIAVIA, GREECE, -- Istanbul, En Son Dakika
13 Jan 52 ,
A Moscow-trained officer named General Kinov is preparing Bulgaria for
war for the Soviets. Kinov, a former guerrilla, fled to the USSR from Bulgaria
and was trained as a soldier in Moscow.
Kinov has assigned specialists on his staff the task of preparing Bulgar-
ian youth for war. All students in schools higher than secondary schools are
,eing forced to take parachute training; also, Communist youths who desire to
do so, are being trained as voluntary soldiers for fighting in Korea.
Bulgarians of military age not only are forced to work every year without
compensation in the compulsory labor ccmpanies, but are also obliged to learn
how to use newly invented weapons. In recent months, the labor companies have
been used in Macedonia and in the Rhodope Mountains. In fact, the entire Bal-
kan population has been mobilized to straighten mountain roads and to open new
secret military roads.
Paralleling this war activity, all factories have been adjusted to war
production. Coal from Bulgarian mines is being stored in secret depots in the
Balkans. The Soviets have also converted the coast near Sozopol and Akhtopol
into secret submarine bases close to Turkish territorial waters. The shores
near these two towns are surrounded by high rocky precipices and cliffs. The
Soviets have also reportedly constructed in caves secret submarine-munition
depots and provision depots for use in a war against Turkey.
In addition to these preparations, the Bulgarian government has stored in
ammunition dumps, which were recently constructed in many secret areas, vast
quantities of military equipment from the USSR. Soviet advisers in the Bul-
garian Ministry of Education are directing the Communist propaganda hour Lou
the radi] and the military training programs included in the curricula of
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schools. During these classes, the Bulgarian youth are instructed in the du-
ties which will be incumbent upon them in a future war of liberation to be
conducted against the imperialists. When imperialists are mentioned, the
countries implied by the Soviets are Turkey, Yugoslavia, and Greece. These
countries are accused of having sold themselves to the Anglo-Saxons.
All youtl? and sport organizations are also rapidly being prepared for war.
The Communist leaders of higher educat?,)n and university youth organizations,
as well as of primary and secondary-school youth organizations known respec-
tively as Septemvriche and Georgi Dimitrov outhe] are collecting money
through these organizations, to erect a huge statue of Stalin in Sofia. Some
of this money is being sent to Chinese Communist youth organizations.
The wheat from this year's harvest is being loaded on ships in Stalin
Burgas harbors and is being sent to Communist China. Living as they are in
hunger and poverty, the Bulgarian people are violently incensed at food prod-
ucts and cereals being sent to China, but they are obliged to remain silent in
the fece of violent pressure. Isolated groups revolt against the Communists
in some areas and engage in sabotage activities, jut there is no sign of gen-
eral revolt or revolution because Communist spice are everywhere, even in the
smallest villages.
The military airfields in Plovdiv, Sofia, Stara Zagora, and Gornavitsa
Torn Oryakhovitsa?7 have been expanded, and "oviet military planes from
Odessa and Se:astopr" arrive daily at these fields.
Although the Bulgarian peace treaty limits Bulgarian military forces to
60,000, the present government under Chervenkv has 150,000 C?munists under arms.
In short, the Soviets have converted Bulgaria into a military ammunition
depot and base. The Bulgarian Communist leaders are not conforming to the re-
quirements of international law and treaties, and, in spite of the protests of
the democracies, the Bulgarian Communists have brought their country to a'po-
sition where it can open fire at any moment. against neighboring states, if it
is ordered to do so by Moscow. -- Necmettin Deliorman
17 AIRFIELDS UNDER CONSTRUCTION -- Tehran, Tolu, 6 Feb 52
It is reported from Bulgaria that the Bulgarian government sow has 400
military airplanes. Furthermore, other airplanes have been sent to Bulgaria
from the USSR.
Currently, 17 airfields are under construction in Bulgaria, several of
which will be used for jet planes.
One airfield under construction is located 55 miles from the Turkish
border. This airfield will be able to handle all types of aircraft.
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