CONFERENCE OF SOVIET AND BULGARIAN OFFICIALS IN SOFIA

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010000250004-3
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 10, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: January 12, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO. 25X1A
114FORMATION REPORT CD NO,
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Conference of Soviet and Bulgarian
Officials in Sof
PLACE
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DATE OF
INFO.
DATE DISTR.
12 Jan.. 1952
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REPORT NO.
1. On 15 October 1951, the following attended a three-hour conference in
the royal palace at Sofia:
as Vuli:o Chervenkov. Bulgarian Prime }?iniater;
b. Petur Panchevaky, Bulgarian Minister of Defense;
c. A certain Sdanov;l
d. A certain Dimitrov;2
e. A certain Georgiev;3
f. The commanders of the Second and Fourth Bulgarian Arr?.ies;
The commander of the Bulgarian Navy; and
ha A Soviet field marshal who carne by plane from Hungary with four other
. high-ranking officers on 15 October 1951.
2.. The Soviet field marshal presided over the conference at which the follow-
ing subjects were reportedly discussed:
a. The situation created by the inclusion of Greece and Turkey in the
forth Atlantic Treaty Organization;
b. The information received from Ankara, Athens, and Paris regarding the
military contacts and conferences of Generals Bradley and Slim;
c. The information received from Belgrade concerning the conferences of
General Collins in the latter city;
d. The possibility of a. Belgrade-Athens axis;
a. The Turkish position vis-a-vis Bulgaria, following the assumption
Turkey of a leading role in the Middle East; and
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f, The increase in size of the Bulgarian armed forces,
3o The Soviet officers stayed in the Grand Bulgarian Hotel, and departed for
Tirana on 17 October 1951.
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1,
Possibly Zhdanov would be a more correct trans-
literation of the name,
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2.
Possibly Yordan (Dancho?) Dimitrov, Bulgarian
Minister of Transport, is meant.
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3,
Possibly Kimon Georgiev, Bulgarian Minister of
Electrification, is meant.
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