PRISONS AND INMATES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013600200002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 28, 2006
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 17, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Bulgaria
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
SECRET/CONTROL - U. S. OFFICIALS ONLY
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
CD NO.
SUBJECT Prisons and Inmates
DATE OF
INFO.
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DATE DISTR. 17 Feb 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
ACQUIREDI I REPORT NO.
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROIIIBITED
The Sofia Central Prison
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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l,. The Central Prison in Sofia has been rebuilt and enlarged recently. One section
of it is now used by the State Security Services. Another section has been re-
built to accommodate `la1 pimistunent cells, e?.ch one meter square and 1.8 meters
high. These cells are in constant use, mainly for the purpose of making prison-
ers talk.
the following individuals as currently or having been in
the past imprisoned in the Sofia Central Prison:
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a. Krustyu Pastukhov, former leader of the now-outlawed Social Democratic
Party; he was ar-_?ested in 1948 and sentenced to a long term of imprisonment;
his death from old age was publicly announced in 1950, but
that actually he was strangled in his sleep when in Sliven Prison by a
criminal con9rict, Anton Pop Antonov, and that later, when Antonov was trans-
ferred from the Sliven to the Sofia Prison he admitted the murder, saying
that he had been told to do it by Sliven Prison authorities;
b. Tzaic'ho Kostov, former acting premier (in place of Georgi Dimitrov), secretly
executed, in the Sofia Prison; 25X1
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e. Dobri Minev, industrialist and former owner of the Gloria Factory; was
arrested and thrown from the third-floor window of the police building
and, killed;
f. Kiril Todorov, age 30; son of the exiled politician, now dead, Kosta
Todorov;
as Aveto Trampov, a former Social Democrat who was editor of Svoboden Naroy,
the Social Democratic newspaper; he was a member of Parliament; after his
arrest he was interned on a small island on the Danube, where he did forced
labor; he died of tetanus after an injury for which the camp doctor refused
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Ithe following inmates of the Belene Forced:Labor Camp:
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