ACTIVE AND PASSIVE RESISTANCE IN THE SATELLITES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700110067-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 67
• Publication Date: May 6, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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ALBANIAN PEOPLE LISTEN TO WESTERN BROADCASTS -- Istanbul, Aksam, 26 Dec 52
Munich 25 December -- It has been reported that Albanian people listen
secr,tly to Western radio broadcasts. A guard watches the dcor and windows,
and the signal volume is kept very low. Those who have radios pass on the
information they have heard to others.
SABOTAGE INCREASED IN BULGARIA -- Athens, Estia, 24 Mar 53
London -- According to information received through indirect means from
Bulgaria, sabotage has increased recently. A big fire occurred recently in
the largest flour mill of Bulgaria, located at Yambol. .another fire occurred
in a chemical factory at Dimitrovgrad.
PASSIVE RESISTANCE SLOWS DAM CONSTRUCTION IN BULGARIA -- Istanbul, Aksam,
28 Dec 52
Munich, 27 December -- A large dam, ??htch has been under construction
since 1947 and which will irrigate th. Plovdiv region of Bulgaria, has not
yet been completed because of passive reyiszance.
CZECH COMMUNIST LEADER ASSASSINATED -- Athens, Le Messager d'Athenes, 17 Feb 53
A local Communist cell leader was recently found assassinated in Lipany,
eastern Slovakia. The Security Police have not been able to identify those
responsible for the murder but attribute it to anti-Communist partisans. In
its struv.,~le against such movements the police are being aided by units of
the regular army, which, however, through fear of being ambushed, never dare
to enter forests where the partisans have their hide-outs.
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BQ4B EXPLODES IN RUMANIAN STORE -- Izmir, Anadolu, 17 Jan 53
Belgrade, 16 January -- A large bomb recently exploded in a big downtown
store in Bucharest. About 20 customers were killed and hundreds were injured.
Responsible authorities hushed up this incident, and no word about it.appeared
either in the newspapers or on the radio.
ANTI-COMMUNIST GUERRILLAS ACTIVE IN RUMANIA -- Athens, Ethnos, 4 Mar 53
Vienna -- Rumanian refugees have reported that the activities of the anti-
Communist guerrillas in Rumania have increased considerably. The guerrillas
appear in groups of 50 or more men. Lately, they have successfully raided
w^apons factories, munitions warehouses, and railroad property. They also
have had actual battles with the Soviet security police.
The guerrillas seem to come especially from the regions of the Metalice
and Transylvania mountains. All efforts to wipe them out have been in vain
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