CONTROLS ON RUMANIAN RAILROADS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000800530009-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 15, 2001
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: April 6, 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.B. Code, as
I N FG RMAT 14 N REPORT amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to 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
REPORT NO.
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SUBJECT
Controls on Rumanian Railroads
DATE DISTR.
6 April 1953
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DATE OF INFO.
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REQUIREMENT NO.
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OP CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1. Control in the Railroad Stationsi In every railroad station there is a militia
post of the Rumanian railroads (01R). It has the duty of insuring order at the
ticket offices and waiting rooms, executing raids around the station and guarding
the loading and unloading operations. At important points such as warehouses,
per transformers and power stations, a fixed militia post is installed. The
militiamen, while making the rounds of the railroad station, spot check
travelers'I identification paperrsp especially those seemingly suspicious. When
they request the identification papers, the showing of the identity card secris to
be sufficient. The militia men also inquire about the purpose of the ?t,ravelea tai
visit in the locality if he is from out of town? if at a ticket office, a ticket
for a point in the forbidden zones is requested, the purchaser is compelled to
show a permit of entry for that zone.
Control in the Trainss Passenger trains are accompanied by a militia squad'
composed of two to four soldiers in charge of policing the train.. They assist
the train personnel in carrying out their duties. On the regular lines there
are very few controls. The only time identification papers must be produced is
upon a special order of the Securitatea., as in the case of escapees believed
to be in the region. For the frontier zones,, checks of papers are made only
for those persons leaving the train in those zones. For example-
a. If a person leaves Lugoj to go to Craiova and has a ticket to one of the
stations located outside the zone Baile Herculane-.Strehaia,, he is not
checked if he tells the militia that he is going either to Craiova or Slatina
and shows the train ticket.
be If he goes to one of the stations inside the frontier zone, he must show
his identification card, either issued from a locality located within the
zone., and stamped with the seal of the zone, or from another locality in the
country, but in the latter case bearing two stamps.- the zone seal and a seal
from the place where he works, bearing the date he was hired. When a person
is neither a native of the zone nor works there he is obliged to produce.,
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Both in the trains and outside the trains,in the stations the control is rather.
superficial. Some mil.itia,, even officers., show signs of boredom. There are
some cases for which there is no particular provision on the identification
cards and permits.. which makes it difficult to recognize false , Permits.
On the route Bucharest>Fetesti-Med ;.dia-Constant. the permit checks are made in
the same way as on the route Filiasi-.Turnu Severin-Lugoj. The NLilitia boards
the train the idia. The same papers as above are required.
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in addition to his identification cards, a permit to enter the zones This
permit mentions the destination stations the village and the address where
he is goings and the purpose of his journey. Sometimes the controlling.
authorities ask the traveler where he works and what his relationship is with
the person he intends to visit.
c. For all trains coming from Ti misoara-.Lugo j , the militia board the train at
the Bsile-Herculane station and stay on the train up to Turnu Severity,, where
another squad boards it for control purposes. The second squad leaves the train
at Strehaia and returns to Turnu-Severity with the next train .
In the railroad stations located in the frontier zones one or two militia men
are posted at the exit. There is a very strict control carried out in the Turnuw
Severin station. The travelers are checked as soon as the train which brought
them has left., thus preventing those with no permits from re-boarding the
train to go further. There is no possibility of going into the station yards
unless one is dressed in the uniform of the militia or of a railroad mane and
bears the? necessary papers.
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lanes such as Medgidia.Cobadin and Medgidia-Babadag.Tulceam on trains going
towards the Bulgarian frontier or towards the banubeo,
I there are no controls at all on the line towards Tulcea,
e as no o now about rains oin towards Bulgaria and cannot draw any
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of Cej rasi, Olte, aj$ urg UP urn gure e, Corabia and Calafat might be
forbidden zones..
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