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Monday, 3 September 2018

The Bulgarian river port Lom in 1948 according to a CIA report dated 10 February 1954

An item described the Bulgarian Danube harbour Lom by an anonymous sailor in 1948. Lom was a small harbour were mainly Czechoslovakian Skoda trucks and Hungarian ¼”wire cable were unloaded despite considered to be war reparations for the Soviet Union. The sailors’ ship unloaded her cargo alongside pontoon-type docks situated between the railroad station and a one store administrative building which as the same time accommodated a guard numbering around 20 men. The cargo was manual unloaded lacking modern equipment for this purpose. East of the railroad station was a new winter harbour dug out although the construction of building was not begun. This winter harbour was to include ship repair facilities.

Source
The report was published on www.archive.org, document number CIA-RDP83-00423R001300250001-9