RUMANIAN AIR FORCE: POLITICAL TRAINING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500790067-8
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Sequence Number: 67
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Rumanian Air Force: Political Training
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a. The office: s have three hca:;'t r ,f pci it :Lc.al trollning weekly. One of the
three h,:t r; i ; de.:d'cated to Jo.t-'r.T'tien on interr:nticnal politics.
b. The sub-officer, have five hours of P,a_itical training weekly. One of tt.
five hours deals with the cub,J.:Act of !ntcrnati,!nal politics.
The pc. itica.l training follows a pattern giv,_n out by the High Political Office
i the armi (par- ;,f the Ministry of the A:?mcc) Forces). The program is the same
all branches of the PRR Array.
-.ubje:t matter for couris~; and lecture- is sent to the head officers of the
liti:-,1 - gaff whe anal;,ze it. and forward it to the commi?sars of the =mailer
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(10) Divisions and difficulties within the capitalist world
(11) Imperialist aggressions e.gainAt peace (Korea, Indochina, Kenya)
(12) Biography of Stalin
(13) State industries
(14) In addition to the theoretical courses mentioned above, seminars are held
in which the same themes are debated.
5. 't'wice p. weal: F-;:aminaticn; on politirs.l training are given, in order to evaluate
the political properat..._n of the men. The men are forced to attend the
political end th'_j have no intero?t in listening to the discussions and
lectures. Recently even the political officers show weariness and boredom in
their task:, a- ti'tey face the total indifference of the soldiers and officers.
6. Only three to five percent. of thp men (tt mbr:re of the Communist Party) attend the
courses and the seminars but even these do eo Just to make a good name in the
Party cr for the purpose cf being promoted or to receive a good job at the and
t... u-heir military eervi.e.
The political officers, realizing the catastrophic results of the tests given at
the end of the seminars or at the periodical yearly exams, give fake ratings to
the men In order to hide their (the officers') failure to win over the masses to
the Party line. It should be noted that the inspecting officers sent by the
High Political Office of the army establish a tacit agreement with the unit's
officers to hide the situation and to avoid complications. The political officers
do this in :,rdtr to av.-id being fired as incompetent.
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(1) Marxist-Stalinist political sciences
(2) History of the class struggle
(3) Social c?lassificatio:ns
(4) History of the Communist Bolshevik Party
(5) History c# the labor struggle in Rur:ania
(6) Collectivist system in the USSR
(7) Electrification plans for the country
(8) Collective farms in the PRR
(9) The PRR five year pl?n
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