MISCELLANEOUS ECONOMIC AND MILITARY INFORMATION FROM BULGARIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R015500230007-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 2006
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: December 15, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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DATE DISTR. 15 December 1952
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INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
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SUPPLEMENT TO
25X1 REPORT NO.
COUNTRY Bu]g aria
SUBJECT Miscellaneous Economic and Military
Information from Bulgaria
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING.OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 795
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. Sometime in 1951, the Soviet Geological Research Mission which has been active
in eastern Bulgaria for the past three or four years., allegedly 'discovered oil
deposits in the vicinity of Shabla village, Varna district. However., to date
there has been no official announcement of the discovery.
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2. The Mission also allegedly found new iron deposits which are "80 percent-iron
and very black in color, resembling graphite'! in the area between.Yambol and.
Elkhovo.
An agricultural cooperative was formed in Veselets (sic), Kubrat district,, in
1950. By March 1952, 50 of the 1.00 families'in the village belonged. to the
cooperative and controlled approximately 12,000 decares of land. The modern
agricultural machinery used by the farmers is borrowed from the Kubrat Machine
Tractor Station.
courses are given once a week., are taught by Army officers, and are obligatory
far all students.
In. 1951,9 military law courses were instituted at the University of Sofia*
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