MINING OPERATIONS AT KERDZHALI, BULGARIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005200210002-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: July 12, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT mining Operations at
K( dsehali, Bulgaria
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DATE OF
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DATE DISTR. .,n JUL 50
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?Yriteso mi o and copper are being extracted from mines at Kerdshaliv, Bulgaria.
About 2,9240 labors are working in those mines. The mines operate twenty.,,
f mw hours a day and there are three 8-hour shiftsa The mines are
admi .stered by a Bulgarian .Soviet care but the majority of the personnel
is Russian?
20 Ores fra a t h e Y e r d s b s l i mines are r e f i n e d a t factories b u i l t b y Siemawo
After this prellminax7 press the area are shipped to Russia by way of the
uba. In Ootober a. small amount of these products was sent to Czechoslovakfa?
and that country supplied Bulgaria with ste wire in redo
S. The director of the lead mines at Kerdshali, Bulgaria, is a Russian named
Zi o The daily output of refined metal is twenty mgons of malted
lead or cram a rso
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