LAVRENT''YEV APPOINTMENT ENDS HOPES OF SOVIET WITHDRAWAL FROM RUMANIA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700080328-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 328
• Publication Date: September 10, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION RESTRIC2IT2
SECURTTY TT: nr . , , -n?,
;I~ICLLIGcNCE AGENCY REPORT
!NFORMATIC' FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS C1) NO.
COUNTRY Rucianl3; ' S.R
SUBJECT Political
HOW
PUBLISHED Dully nevep -,:ar
WHERE
PUBLISHED stc_ki,ola
DATE
PUBLISHED 14 Jul 1952
LANGUAGE 5vedi,h
SS'enok' D ,ybla le_.
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
IAVRET 'YEV APPOINTlMIQT ENDS LOPES
OF SOVIET WITHDRAWAL FROM RUTfAtli A
Vienna, 13 July (Tr-Reuter) -- The appointment of Anatoliy Iavrent'gov as
new Soviet e:Laensdor to nt,mania marked the close of a period of hope and wish-
ful thinking on the part of the Rumanian people, according to travelers who ar-
rived in Vienna from Bucharest.
According to these travelers, Lavrent'yev has the reputation of being much
rote active and positive than his predecessor, Sergey Kavtarad,P, who .ayap-
peered, it is reported, because of his close friendship with formes foreign
minister Ana Pauker.
The appointment of Lavrent'yev is believed to indicate that Moscow in-
tends to increase its pressure on Rumania. It had been hoped that the Soviets
would withdraw from the country, that the regime would be liberalized, and that
Mania, latereecu
and oth
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political leaders %,ould be liberated and allowed
to form a liberal government. Those hopes have been crushed.
The time from the iiret report: of the fall of Vasile Luca and Ana Pauker
up to +he appointment of Iavrent'yev was marked by a peculiar tension and unrest,
such as has not been observable in the Rumanian capital since the fall of the
Antonescu government in 1944. People spoke openly of their hope for freedom,
and a number of less doctrinaire Communists, who had hurried to climb aboard
the Communist bandwagon when it began to roll, now declared that they had never
really been Communists. Rumor had it that Stalin was sick and was ready to
withdraw, and that the Soviets, because of the C.. motion which consequently had
arisen in Moscow, planned to withdraw from Rumania.
The causes of these rumors were very vague, the travelers said. Assuredly,
there have been great changes in Bucharest recently. All banners with propa-
gandistic slogans have disappeared, as have the giant pictures of the Communist
leaders, Stalin included. A number of Soviet technicians in light industry have
also disappeared, but the factories in Braila, Galati, and Constants are still
run by Soviet experts. Recently, the government has shown greater tolerance for
rumors, etc., but the police machinery is so effective that there can be no
talk of any extensive plotting against the government.
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Uvwcaerea es yet. F7iners, railroad men,
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