SOVIET INFLUENCE IN RUMANIAN MEDICAL FIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000800230007-1
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 9, 2009
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: March 31, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States. within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
INFORMATION REPORT amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
W or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form Is prohibited.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT Soviet Influence in Rumanian
Medical Field
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 31 March 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
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16 the Bacteriological Institute of the Ministry of Public
Health at a meeting of the State Control Cormmission in 25X1
Bucharest. Others present were the Minister of Public Health, the four Deputy
Ministers of Public Health, the head of the Factories Directorate of the
Ministry of Public Health, the Soviet Adviser to the Ministry of Public Health
and Madame Vanda N:Lkolskij, a Soviet who is Vice Chairman of the State
Control Commission. At this meeting had marry criticisms 25X1
to make, the chief of which were as o ows:
Ministry of Public Health Factories
a. Production at the factories of the Ministry of Public Health, which make
surgical instruments, medical equipments et cetera, was lagging; there
seemed to be inexplicable delays and the quality of the articles was poor.
This was probably the result of sabotage. It was considered that two
persons were chiefly responsible: a chief countant., a certain Recas,,
and an Engineer Georgescu. asked why it was that Georgescu 25X1
worked so unsatisfactorily for the present regime, when it was known that
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he had always been a most efficient worker under the Antonescu Government.
She suggested that both these men should be`dismissed. Recas was in fact
dismissed,
L It'?was. agreed that Georgescu should. be removed as"soon
as practicable.'
Cantacuzino Bacteriological Institute
most of the staff of the Cantacuzino
Institute were,, regarded as anti-Soviet and anti-regime. The doctors
7r-e ve reaction
Everybody concerned ought to be extremely 25X1
vigilant and attentive as the Bacteriological Institute would be the most
important medical establishment in Rumania.in,.timeof war.
Professor Constantin Ionescu-Nihaesti' the famous Rumanian scientist., was
dismissed on Soviet instructions from his post as Director of the Cantacuzino
Bacteriological Institute in August 192.
e was invite to the Soviet Union in December 1951 but
refused on the grounds that he was too old to undertake the journey. He
was also not on speaking terms with Pavlov, the former Soviet adviser
to the Institute. At the time of his dismissal there were discussions
between the Ministry of State Security, who wished to arrest him, and the
Ministry of Public Health. The Minister of Health said that if such a
respected figure was arrested, many of his colleagues would refuse to work.
In order to keep up appearances, a new scientific institute was created
for 'him, he now has little authority.
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