FACTORS POSSIBLY INFLUENCING BULGARIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00047R000400350006-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2013
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 26, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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Should the Western Democracies consider utilizing resistance elements of
Bulgaria on a large scale in the unforeseeable future, some factors which
might be of value in any probable or contemplated action relative to use
of Bulgarian citizenry are:
4* Fewer people migrated from Bulgaria after World War II than from any of
the other countries of Southeastern Europe with the possible exception
of Albania. By and large Soviet intentions for Bulgaria when USSR forces
entered the Balkans in 1944, were misinterpreted. When the Soviet troops
entered Rumania and northern Bulgaria they turned northward along the
Danube. As a result, the average Bulgarian assumed that these troops
were bent on liberation rather than eventual occupation. Some few
people in key positions appraised the situation correctly and thus
escaped to Western Europe. However, in proportion to the population
of variousBalkan countries, a larger percentage of the intelligentsia
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b. Statistics relative to Bulgarian population trends prior tb World War II
reveal that the average longevity or life span was calculated at around
47 years* 'Due to the present trend the mortality rate
is higher and that the life span has been lowered. In calculating the
average age of political groups or organizations at the time the USSR
took over Bulgarian affairs, the above mortality figures would presume
that personnel in such organizations would be either statistically dead
(theoretically) or too old to be of considered use to the West.
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interesting factor deals with the propaganda which is being
by the Communist Government of Chervenkov. The Bulgarian
is told that in the event of a Western victory over the Sov,9)9
would be occupied by the military forces of Greece and
The propagandists are playing up the role of the two latter
in Bulgarian affairs for centuries back. This propaganda 50X1
the Bulgarian people that over a period of one thousand years
Greeks or the Turks have occupied or controlled Bulgaria
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Turkey.
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either the
and heraffairs
for at least seven hundred years.
In the Oyes of the average Bulgarian the US, when compared
to other
armour",
nations, stands out metaphorically as a "knight in shining
another psychological approach employed:
by the supervening officials of the Bulgarian Government' is that the
UK is bent on the eventual reestablishment of'-a-monarchial form .of
overtment in Bulgaria. It is pointed up to Bulgarians that such -a'
monarchy would affiliate itself with the. Uk to which it would be
subservient rather than
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aVtrage. Bulgarian is-tired-of-Moharchy,- abhors Communism and as a
consequence, could be expected to cooperate willingly if he were
assured of a repubaddan:torm- of government, freely and duly elected
.bY the people. Of Bulgaria,.
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