UNION OF SOVIET CITIZENS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005800690003-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 16, 2008
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: January 26, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
Ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Sec.. 799
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which In
any manner to an unauthorized person IS prohibited
by law. 25X1
SECRET_U.S, OFFICIALS ONLY
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Union of Soviet Citizens
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 26 January 1955
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REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS RNORT All DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY sill REVERSE)
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le The Union of Soviet Citimeno and the Soviet Citizens Club, which has approximately
5,000 members, are located at 11 Iaement Gottwald Street in Sofia. Construction
of a large building, at an estimated cost of 17 to 18 million lava, for the
Union offices and the club is now in progress opposite the present offices.
2. The activities of the Union and the maintenance of the club are financed by a
number of Union-owned enterprises which enjoyed a special, status in the local
economy. Up to 19% they operated independently of the ministry which controlled
their branch of industr,-, the only control an the ptrt of the Bulgarian authorities
being that of the National Planning Office. The enterprises are supplied with
raw materials through the eoonomio department of thy. Union, fix their on
prices (which are submitted for form .1 approval to Lhe appropriate Bulgarian
body), and sold their products moo+ly to the joint Soviet-Bulgarian national
enterprises, The now course in the Soviet policy tclwards the satellites in
granting greater autonomy and withdrawing from the joint Soviet-Satellite
national enterprises has boon felt in the Runsian emigrant oolong in Bulgaria
in general and the Union=owned enterprises in particular. Without actually
having renounced the right to control these enterprises, the Union has allowed
the Bulgarian authorities to extend their authority and tighten supervision,
which was practically nonexistent until 1951x~. The enterprises are being
subjected step by step to the same regulations and restrictions applying to
Bulgarian enterprises.
3. The largest Union-owned enterprise in the Marshal Tolkrukhin woodwork factory,
employing approximately 600 workers, located near the Iskffr railroad station
in Sofia. The factory operates a branch in Rudozem, in the mining district
near the Turkish border, which supplies the Gorubso joint Soviet-Bulgarian
mining enterprise. Other Union-owned enterprises include the Dobrudzha
restaurant on Dobrudzha Street in Sofia. frequented mostly by foreign diplomats;
the Altay Cafe on Ruski Boulevard in Sofia; Petex, a factory in Sofia for
women's fine ready-made dresses, a large leather goods factory called Yates;
a medical instruments factory near Aleksandur Stamboliyski Street in Sofia; and
some metal workshops of mall artisans in Stalin (formerly Varna). Plovdiv, and
other towns. The Union has established a fine recreation home, located in a
2-story building at Panchsrwvo near Sofia, which serves only Soviet citizens.
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