SITUATION IN YUGOSLAV-BULGARIAN BORDER AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008500540011-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2001
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: September 5, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Yugoslavia
SUBJECT Situation in Yugoslav-Bulgarian Border
Area
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At present there are no regular Yugoslav Army troops stationed within 30
to 40 kilometers of the Bulgarian border in the area south of Gorna
25X1X Dzhumaya in Bulgaria, The border proper is patrolled
by border guards only. These are now exclusively Serbs, all Croats,
Macedonians, and Slovenes having been withdrawno
2. At present the unit strength in the area is as follows:
a. Vladimirovo - One infantry regiment which was previously stationed at
Shiroki Dolo
b. Dvorishte - One border battalion.
c. Fehcevo - One border company.
d. Fancarevo - Approximately 60 border guards.
e,, Golek - Approximately two regiments encamped around the mountaino
f. Suha Laki (sic) - One infantry battalion.
3. Trenches with gun emplacements were observed extending south from Fancarevo
to the Greek-Bulgarian-Yugoslav border.
1i Almost daily border clashes are reported to occur where the border guards
are only ten meters (sic) from the frontier.
5. Source also reports that in the spring of 1951 Yugoslav government-directed
"over-border" activities into the Struma Valley were increasedo
6o In the Vardar area of Macedonia, economic conditions are reported to be
worse than in any time in the memory of its present inhabitants.
Malnutrition and lack of clothing are evidento
7. However, despite the poor economic conditions, source reports that the
morale of the Yugoslav population in this border area seems to be higher
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than that of the Bulgarian inhabitants The Yugoslavs appear almost
eager for a fight against Stalin,, believing that war will remove the
Tito regime and bring United States troops and food into the area.
25X1 A 1a Comment: In 1950 regular Army troops were stationed along the
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on the re orcement of the infantry units stationed in the Dmitrovgrad
area,, north of the border zone discussed above.
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