ARREST OF MILITARY AND POLITICAL PERSONALITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009000020009-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 14, 2006
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: December 4, 2001
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Arrest of 11ilitary and Political Personalities
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1. The new 1-Minister of Interior is scheduled to take over within a few days.
'His name has not yet been announced, but he is alleged to be a former factory
worker' completely pro ominform.
2. A purge is quietly underway within the Bulgarian Army and several ranking
officers will be removed.
Former Minister Chernokolev is reported arrested and being held at Sofia
prison. His trial as a "Traikovistlf is to start in mid-October 1951.
4. Rumors continue to persist in Bulgaria that Vulko Chervenkov is in disfavor
and will be replaced.
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5. General Slavcho Trunskiq former Commander of Third Arm is held at Pazardzhik
prison as a fascist and a penetration agent of the pro-German Government while
acting as a partisan leader.
6. Vladimir Poptornov is reportedly being eased out of public life. Rumors to
this effect are increasing and his absence has been noted at recent official
functions.
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DATE DISTR. 15 Oct. 1951
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