VISIT OF SOVIET NAVAL SQUADRON TO BURGAS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003200690007-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2005
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 8, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2005/07/13 : CIA-RDP80-0081OA003200690007-4
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECRET,
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Visit 'of Soviet Naval
Squadron to Burgas
25X1ATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
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This Document contains information affecting the Ns
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 19, Sections 793 and IN, of the U.S. Code, ss
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorised person Is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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25X1 1. five Soviet ships arrived at Burgas and anchored in the outer
25X1 port area. These s ips included two large cruisers one of which was allegedly of
25X1 the ROV class.1 The other cruiser may have been of the same class
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Three destroyers, estimated to about 2,,UUu onso accompanie e
2. ''he naval squadron was commanded by an unidentified admiral who went ashore. The
naval formation left Burgas in the afternoon of 23 October 1953, after having
fired a salvo of guns in salute.
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