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Friday 13 October 2017

The Bulgarian Koralovag shipyard at Varna according to an American CIA report dated 13 March 1953

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.