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104-10178-10168 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (8/22/1951)

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           1 Th n n  contained in the a acd   report was obtain44h yough interrogation
  L .Spas Tod       kin, Zdravko Kostadi  D     ov and Stefan Pot 6   eltekov,
  Trudovaks     esorted their unit werk    an the Balohik airfieidEnd made their way
  to.-Ploidiv and.   to a ioed    '**        \

  2. The reason for their desertion was to join an alleged illegal group working in the
  mountains south of Plovdiv. Their oontaot was a `aster Sergeant who resided in Plovdiv
  and who was supposed to.put them in contact with the illegal group. The Sergeant became
  frightened and refused to do so. From 7 May until 19 June the group wandered around
  the-mountains getting provisions from relatives and frieuds. They finally could hold
  out no longer and entered Granoe on 19 June 1951,

  3, Spas Todorov Ralkin was born 26 October 1..4,in Zelenikovo (RA 7729). He is
  single and has too brothers, Petur and Stoyu, who are farmers in Zelenikovo. His
  father, Todor Petkov R1aikin, is living and is a farmer also. Subject finished the
  theological Seminary in Plovdiv and the Theological Faculty in Sofia. .is than taught
  for one year on the-Sofia Fculty. itoewas then called up on 5 April 1950 for his
  military service and assigned to the 309 P1odolenie (Trudovak) at Boemer airfield. On
  22 December 1950, he with his unit were transferred to the Balchik airfield where they
  became Podelenie 5463. ilia desire to desert was to join in the fight against communism
in  the name of the Bulgarian Orthodox Churoh. rehien he found it would be impossible to
do so  insine BulLaria, -he decided to escape to Jreeos and join such a church group
there, if such existed.  In the event there was no existing church group, he desires
to form such a militant illegal church group to fight communism inside Bulgaria.

4.  Edravko Kostadinov Damyanov wan born 6 September 1928 in Delashtitan (PF 4892). He
is single and prior to his induction into the Trudovaks was a farmer on the family farm
where he lived with his father, Kostadin Georiev Danyanov, his mother, Stoina, aged 45,
and his sister&, Vasilka awed 18, Stefka aied 3, asnc brothers Yordan aged 16, Niko~a,
and Zhivko. -The latter two noys are in grade school. Subject graouated from the Plovdiv
high schcol in 1949 and spent one year on tne far:z prior to his induction. He served
in the same units as Raikin ana was inducted the same day,

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