GENERAL INFORMATION FROM THE VARNA AREA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013200350013-7
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 27, 2006
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: August 4, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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General Information from the Varna Area
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Four motor torpedo boats, German type, approximate speed 30 knots;
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Navy
1. The headquarters of naval units stationed in Varna, located in southern.Varna
near the port area in what was formerly a stock-exchange building, have been
redesignatea the .Vulgarian Naval Forces Admiralty.."
2.. Rear Admiral Atanasov, Commander of the Bulgarian Navy, an ardent Communist
educated and trained; in the USSR, resides in the Admiralty building.
The. Bulgarian Naval fleet) stationed at Varna, is composed of the following
ships
a. One'large'Soviet warship; the entire complement of the ship received
training in the USSR;1
b. Two%%big?'Soviet warships, transferred from the USSR to Bulgaria during late
1949 or early 1950;; entire complement of both ships were trained in the
USSR;
c. Four motor torpedo boats, pre-World War II English type, approximate speed
30 knots;
e. Six motor torpedo boats, new Soviet type, approximate speed 30 knots;
f. Four old torpedo boats
, formerly named the DURSKI, SMELI, KHRABI, and
STISHNi; and
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g ? Several mitre=r ep rs, -:ct ructed: at the T a,r za gav :rrment -ahip :rds ..
Shii yards and Shipping
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Th-d Korals vag go ternment `s.hipyard and all other government shipyards located
at Varna were united and placed under the single directorship of KQRBSO
(Bulgaro-S vetsko Druz estvo za Korabostroene; Bulgarian-Soviet Association
for Shipbuilding) sometime-during 1950.
The yards, outfitted with Soviet. equipment and machines, are currently building
3,000 tgns of ships and lighters*
6. As of 16 October 1951, approximately six lighters had already been completed
by the KORBSO yards and transported, to the USSR.
7. All foreign ships entering the port of Varna must obtain port clearances from
V'asilFedbrovi.ch Osipov, Soviet engineer, port chief of operations... Osipov
is assisted by a certain Khocheminaa, last name unknown, a female secretary.
Soviet ships, transporting various manufactured products, machinery, steel,.
arms, and military equipment call tiao':-ox three times each week.
Arms and military equipment. are discharged only at night while. the dock area
is completely blacked out, mds' are. }idled entirely by Communist or politically
reliable dock workers.
-10. Returning from Bulgaria to the USSR, these ships transport wheat,, cheese,
various food products, and gray-colored ore.
Geological Research
11., A Soviet Geological Research Commission operates in Varna and vicinity.
12. Until 16 October 1951, the Com4aissi.ou. had made extensive, but unsuccessful
surveys for oil throughout the Provadiya district. However, it is currently
rumored that the Commission has discovered extensive oil deposits at Shabla
village, Kavarna district>2
The Bulgarian government is currently engaged in. ".secret` para-military and
pre-induction. military training, of Bulgarian youth through the NSST (Naroden
Byyuz. za Sport i Teknika; National Union for, Sport and Technique)..3
14. NSST members, chogen from male I NN! (Dimitrovski Suy na 3arodnn,ta Mladezh;
DimitroV Union Of the People11a Youth), attend periodic voluntary training
courses in parachuting, gl4der--flying, arms familiarization, marksmanship,
boating, and horsemanship..,
Miscellaneous
15. Reserves, officers, and. enlisted meA. in the Varna area are still being recalled
for 45 days temporary active duty for familiarization and training with new
Soviet arms and equipment.
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164 A concrete. p3,er is under construction somewhere in the channel between 'the
Varna port arm and Lake Devn ra.
17., A soda factory is under construction at Beloslav village,, Varna district.
18. The following Army units are. stationed in Varna and vicinity;
located at Traka, Tashle-Tepe (Tas Tere.N4239 E27071) and Uzun-Kum.
The 8 Infantry Regiment; and
At unidentified coast artillery regiment, three-battery compleme
19, Allegedly, all Bulgarian antiaircraft regiments,) equipped with approximately
100 guns are encamped on a plain in the Galata peninsula area while under
going weapon familiarization, training, and daily practice drills against
sleeves towed by planes,
1. C.ommentd Probably a.reference to. the old destroyer, GEORGI 25X1A
D MI ROV, farm rIy the Soviet NOZANLOSHNIK..
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discovery of oil in Shabla..
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