Declassified
CIA reports on the People's Republic of Bulgaria, now declassified. One file at a time, read page by page and put back in context. Each file is published on the anniversary of the day the CIA distributed it. Most of these documents are source reports: what an informant told the CIA, often unevaluated. They are presented as such, not as established facts.
Each point marks a city named in a report. It does not confirm what the report claims.
File 006Forty minutes on parade
- Distributed
- 12 November 1954
The 9 September 1954 parade counted unit by unit: 6,993 troops, 36 tanks, 36 aircraft.
- Ref.
- CIA-RDP80-00810A005300940006-7
File 005Rearmament, read in the papers
- Distributed
- 9 November 1950
Swiss and Bulgarian newspapers on rearmament under Defence Minister Panchevski, as read by the CIA.
- Ref.
- CIA-RDP80-00809A000600360153-2
File 004Inside Sofia's factories
- Distributed
- undated (information of April-May 1954)
Weapons, radio and machinery plants in Sofia, and a factory air raid shelter drawn room by room.
- Ref.
- CIA-RDP80-00810A004600880003-5
File 003Rumours of war
- Distributed
- 3 November 1950
Seven claims from Bulgarian refugees in Trieste; two of them do not hold against history.
- Ref.
- CIA-RDP82-00457R006200080001-8
File 002Sofia's air defence
- Distributed
- 2 November 1954
A Secret report mapped 18 gun positions and 15 searchlight and sensor sites around Sofia, including American-designed radars.
- Ref.
- CIA-RDP80S01540R006100060008-6
Source: CIA Reading Room (cia.gov/readingroom). Documents in the public domain.