BULGARIAN GOVERNMENT USE OF RELIEF SHIPMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R002100100012-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 29, 2002
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: February 9, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Bulgaria
CENTRAL. IN" ",1LUGENCE AGENCY
9 R ATIO REPORT
SUBJECT Bulgarian Government Use of Relief
Shipments
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e can Expo s, appro e y ia.ve
hundred tone of powdered, skim and whole milk. The United Nations or-
ganization, (the largest proportion of whose budget is paid for by the
United States) has only the right to make inspections in Bulgaria; this
right has been denied to the United Nations by the Bulgarian Government.
2. Mearrahile, Bulgaria exporto its own milk supply either for cash payments
or as raw material for the production of casein glue. Bulgaria also uses
its own milk supply for manufacturing glue, used primarily by the Bulgarian
plywood industry.
3. The following exanpies of shipments have been noted:
a. The EXCHESTFA, an American Export Lines vessel, departed Norfolk,
Virginia on 12 September 19)46 and arrived in Burgas, Bulgaria on
8 October 1948 with a cargo of 958,126 pounds of dry skim and whole
milk. Shipping costs alone came to IS22, )84.112.
b. The EXFORD, departed New York harbor on 15 October and arrived in
Burgas on 8 November 1948 with a cargo of 1,132, ,379 powzds of dry
skim and whole milk. The shipping costs were 618, 816.9?
c. The GORSKKI KOO.P A VOR sailed fram Varna, Bulgaria on approximately
24 October and transited Istanbul on 26 October 1948 for Haifa with
a cargo of 36 tons of Bulgarian yellow cheese.
d. Certain American Export Lines vessels are currently returning from
Bulgaria with cargoes containing yellow cheese. No mention is made
of the destination of these cargoes.
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on 14 anuary 19)49 on the EXECUTOR. It is an established fact that the
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Bulgaria worts nearly x -U of its fruit crop.
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