EXPULSION OF RUSSIAN NATIONALS FROM YUGOSLAVIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004400300008-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: March 1, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Yugoslavia/Bulgaria
RMATION REPORT
CONFIDENTIAL
SUBJECT F..xpulsion of Russian Nationals
from Yugoslavia
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
The Yugoslav Government has taken action to expel all Russians who arrived
in-Yugoslavia following `World War I and who acquired Soviet citizenship
in 1914. The Yugoslav Ministry of Foreign Affairs
issued exit visas and had them put on trains for Bulgaria
At Kalatin, the
first railroad sta on in Bulgaria, the ussians were removed from the
train by the Bulgarian authorities and forcibly placed on the first train
returning to Yugoslavia. On their return to Caribrod, Yugoslavia, they
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train returning to Bulgaria. Some Russians have made as many as six
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policy was dictated by the Soviet Ambassador in Sofia,
2q A number of Russian professional men who were sent to Bulgaria were taken
to Sofia and put in jail pending final disposit-ion. One person was held
in jail for three weeks, then was placed on a train and returned to Yugo-
slavia where he was permitted to return to his home in Pancevo.
In more recent times, the Yugoslav Government has sent some Soviet citizens
into Bulgaria via clandestine overland routes. They are led across the
Bulgarian border by a Yugoslav and sent into the Bulgarian interior.
It. On 22 January 1950, two Yugoslav secretaries who had been working in the
Yugoslav Embassy in Sofia and had been ordered to leave the country by
the Bul,;arians, left by train for Yugoslavia. V1hile travelling through
Bulgaria, their compartment was observed to be of prime interest to the
Bulgarian train guards who knocked on the door and repeated at intervals
through the night: "Are you spies sleeping?" In conversation, the two
secretaries stated that in recent days over half of the members of the
Central Committee of the Bulgarian workers' Party had been arrested.
They also stated their conviction that Vasil Kolarov did not the a
natural death.
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This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
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