SOVIET ACTIVITIES AT VRANYA PALACE, SOFIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R007500230004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 30, 2012
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: March 5, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION TCi ,,Id 'l`TJ1:JS C,.,LY
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION Ril3PO!,FIT CID NO,,
COUN "R'` Bulgaria
SUBJEC- Soviet activities at Vranya palace, Sofia
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DATE DISTR 5 ;'arch 1951
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T IIS iS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
L The Vranya royal palace, located 12 kilometers from Sofia, is now being
used as a residence for Premier Vulko Chervenkov. Highly secret meetings
of the Council of Linisters and the Politburo are held here.
2, In late July or the first part of August 1950, when it was reported that
Yugoslavia might attack Bulgaria, a series of high level meetings took
place in Vranya palace during which the Bulgarians were allegedly asked
to furnish five divisions.
3, During October 1950 a very high ranking Soviet officer, either a marshal
or a general,wras quartered at the palace and conducted a number of noetings
there, It continual flow of the highest ranking Bulgarian officials was
seen driving to and from the palace during his stay,
k. The normal guard of the palace is a detachment of Border Guards known as
"Blue Cape" numbering approximately sixty to eighty :men with throe officers,
Border Guards are selected for this duty in keeping with their responsibility
for guarding the Dimitrov Mausoleum, Sofia Palace and other Party installa-
tions.
5. The main guardhouse is in a corner of the palace compound on the Sofia
road and is the first building seen when approaching from Sofia. Housing
approximately twenty to thirty men, this guardhouse covers the main gate
and palace building.
6~ A11 Border Guards are ar_led ..ith sub-machine guns; none have pistols or
rifles. Informant believes they also have machine guns for emergency use,
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/30: CIA-RDP83-00415R007500230004-9
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/30: CIA-RDP83-00415R007500230004-9