DOCTOR GAOLED
SUBVERSIVE STATEMENTS (Rec. 1 p.m.) SOFIA, June 27. A Bulgarian court sentenced Dr. Blagoy Angolov, physician to the United States military mission at Sofia, to eight months’ imprisonment and three years’ loss of civil rignts for “making statements tending to create a lack of confidence in governments and their regime.” The charges said that Angelov had been heard, in a mountain hut, expressing his hatred of Communists, and declaring that there Avas no free dom of speech and no security for indl viduals in Bulgaria. He had also throAvn a portrait of Momitrov on io the floor. Angelov pleaded guilty. An American, Colonel Struman, alleged to have been concerned in the same' incidents in the mountain hutleft Sofia on June 23 as a result ot representations from the Bulgarian Government.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 67, Issue 219, 28 June 1947, Page 5
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