An item reported that this shipyard at
Varna was a responsibility of the Bulgarian Maritime Commission at Sofia,
Bulgaria under control of the Ministry of Railways. The yard was able to repair
ships and the newbuilding of maximum 3.000 ton ships. The personnel numbered
3.000 labourers including several Soviet specialists. Director of the shipyard
was now the Bulgarian Atanaov. The CIA informant had never heard of plans for
building reinforced concrete ships of any construction for the Yugoslavian
navy. Neither he heard of any sabotage acts. The rubble of demolished buildings
was used for raising the streets and squares of the complete area of the yard
with around 50 centimetres. Afterwards was a new carpenter ship with an area of
around 1.200 square metres built. To accommodate the personnel were 14 blocks
of houses each containing 14 apartments under construction of which already
some were completed.
Source
The report was published on
www.archive.org, document number CIA-RPD80-00810A000500330005-5.