PROPOSALS TO REORGANIZE THE COLLECTIVE FARMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006500330002-5
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2008
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: April 13, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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I NFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL -INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
S-E-C-R-E-T
COUNTRY Bulgaria
DATE OF INFO.
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DATE ACQUIRED
Proposals to Reorganize the
Collective Farms
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 13 April 1955
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On 31 January and the morning of 1 February 1955 the Central Committee of
the Bulgarian Communist Party held a plenary session devoted to the situa-
tion of collective agriculture. The agenda consisted of two motions to
change the composition and the form of management of the collective farms,
to become effective before the summer of 1955. The two motions were as
follows:
a. To reduce the number of collective farms by mergers, thus strength-
ening the control over them and resolving the shortage of experienced
supervisory personnel; and to lower the quotas which the collective
farmer and the private farmer must deliver to the state; and
be To abolish a number of collective farms by expelling all persons who
had proved unreliable or unwilling to live on the collective farms;
to place the land and equipment of the abolished collectives at the
disposal of a special government trust and, in the course of time, to
establish new collectives; not to admit all peasants who wish to join
collectives, but to have them first undergo certain political training;
to increase the payment for agricultural quotas without changing the
quotas; and to transfer part of the army officers, discharged for bud-
getary reasons, to central positions in the collective farms.
Members of the government, particularly in the Ministry of Agriculture,
warned against the dissolution of any collective farming unit. They re-
commended a reorganization of the existing ones, but they would not con-
sent to merging more than two collectives in any particular case.
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The State Planning Commission was asked for its opinion on the motions
to lower the agricultural quotas while raising the quota payment, but it
is not known what decisions were taken. When taken, the decisions will
be brought before the supreme national body of the collective farms, for
which purpose a special meeting of that body will be called shortly.
By 3 February 1955 the press had neither reported on the plenary session
of the Central Committee nor had it mentioned the subjects under discussion.
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