RUSES PORT, ELPROM FACTORY, ELECTRIC POWER, MILITARY INFORMATION, GOVERNMENT PERSONALITIES, POWDER PLANT, TELEPHONE EXCHANGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R012600130007-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 21, 2011
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 30, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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SECURITY INFORMATION
IWORMATION REPORT REPORT
MAY
COUNTRY
Bulgaria DO NOT C I -C IJ LA TE
SUBJECT Ruses Port, Elprom Factory, Electric
Power, Mi.l 1 cry Informationo Government
Personalities, Powder Plant, Telephone Exchange
INFO.
PLACE
ACQUIRED
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OFTHE 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 PROHIBITED.
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DATE DISTR. 30 Jima 1952
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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Port of Ruse, July 1951
1IS The Bulgarian Navy had two minesweepers, two torpedo boats, and 10-12 smaller
The SOFIA. Tae thp:onlyc ferryboat at Ruses It had three son of rails, each of
;which could carry six railroad ears. The SOFIAes schedule called for four day
and two night trips to Rumania during each 24-hour period. The ' railroad oars
ferried to Rumania were loaded with foodstuffs and returned either empty or
loaded with iron ores There were several thousand tons of are stockpiled on
the Ruse docks,
The Elxrrom Faotory, Septembr 1950
SILISTRA?
craft at Ruse.
The GEORGI DIMIITROV, AISKSODUR STANTJLIYSKI, and. 9 SEPT=VRI, first'ola,sss
passenger ships, and the TSANKO TSERVO'PSKI, KERISTO BUIRNEDiSKI, and GEORGI
KIRKOV, seooxlll'1?-class paswinger ships were at Ruse e
The following tugs were also at Ruses VIDIN, ON, SVISRTOV, TUTRAKLN,, and
The Eiprom Factory at Ruse manufactured electrical parts
switches, and friction tapes
0 the electrical switch mold
duotion of 450 unitse
ing press
including wires,
had ku 6..hour prom
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6. The factory has only one 3-story building covering as area of approximately 50 by
30 meters. It is located about 15 meters southwest Pf the main electric power plant.
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b a n. July 1951, the unidentified artillery regiment which had been in Ruse
left for Stalin;
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Elprom employs approximately 300 workers, 160 men and 140 women, on two'8-hour
shifts per day, frpm 5dOO a.m. to 1.-OO pm. and.from 1000 p.m. to 9.-00 p.m.
a. A certain Stoyanov, manager, a Communist
b. A certain Balanov, technical manager, not a Communist, enginee
personalities at the Elprom factory.
c. A certain Rogozherova, female, chemical engineer, not a Communist
d, Doris Tepavski, Paymaster, a reserve lieutenant discharged from the Army as
eo Stain Atanasov, chief of press department-, a Communis
f. Ivan Mitev, a press specialist on the early shif
g. ''Dori R.adev, a ress specialist on the second shif
Longoz f orest southwest of Stalin,
a. in April 1951, the 5 Infantry Regiment moved from Ruse 'to the Kyustendil
area;
Electric Power, August 1951
9. The old electric power plant at Ruse is located in the northwest section of the
city near the barracks of 5 Infantry Regiment. The plant uses crude oil as fuel.
10, A new electric plant, also designed to use crude oil as fuel, was under con-
struction in the vicinity of the old plant; part of the construction had been
completed by August 1951.
11 The transformer in Ruse is located between the sugar factory and the refinery.
TThe plant reduces voltage received from Rumania to 220 volts. The material -to
construct the station came from Rumania.1
12. There is a large transformer center at Ra.grad,, located. between the city and
the railroad station, which reduces the electric current from Rumania to 220
volts.
Military Information August 1951
13. Tn. PT u.ly 1951, the headquarters of 5 Infantry Division moved from Ruse to the
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c. An artillery school J)~o m. Sofia is now installed in the barracks formerly
used by 5 Infantry Regiment; the barracks are guarded by soldiers of 5
Infantry Regiment. who remained when the rest of the unit moved from Ruse;
and
d. During the summer of 1951, the 31 Infantry Regiment moved from Silistra to
a new location between Trun and Dragoman on the Yugoslav frontier.
~h.. 19 Infantry Regiment had moved from 50X1-HUM
Razgrad to
Government Personalities, September 1951
17. The following men were government officials in Ruse: 50X1-HUM
a. Peter Yovchev, governor of Ruse, a Communist;
b. Feodori Titurenko, First Secretary of the Communist Party in the Ruse district,
held his,present post since 1950;
c. Ivan Stanev, Secretary of the Communist Party district committee in Ruse
d. Sava Ivanov, Secretary of the Communist. Party city committee in Ruse;
e. A certain Dobrev, Chief, of the Ruse State Security since 23 September 1951;
and
f. A certain Filipov, Chief of a section. of the Ruse State Security since 23
September 1951.
Powder Plant, February 1950
18. There is a powder plant located in the forest approximately six kilometers east
of Ruse, between Ruse and Lipnitsa village. In 1945 or 1946, part of the plant
was destroyed by an explosion, but the plant has been rebuilt,
and now functions normally. It
has a complement of 160 workers and produces gunpowder for army use. 50X1-HUM
Telephone Exchange
,,__September 1951
19. The Ruse telephone exchange is located in the post office building a, short
distance north of the center of the.city.
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