CONTROLS ON RUMANIAN RAILROADS

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CIA-RDP80-00810A000800530009-6
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December 14, 2016
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November 15, 2001
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9
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April 6, 1953
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REPORT
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Approved For Release 2001/12/12 : CIA-RDP80-0081OA000800530009-6 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. SECRET/CONTROL U.S. OFFICIALS ON?.Y SECURITY INFORMATION COUNTRY Rumania REPORT NO. 25X1 A SUBJECT Controls on Rumanian Railroads DATE DISTR. 6 April 1953 NO. OF PAGES 2 DATE OF INFO. 25X1 C REQUIREMENT NO. RD PLACE ACQUIRED REFERENCES THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE. THE APPRAISAL OP CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. (FOR KEY SEE REVERSE) 25X1X 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., 25X1A SECRET/CONTROL -- U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY Approved For Release 2001/12/12 : CIA-RDP80-00810A000800530009-6 SECRETICONTROL -- U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY 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. 25X1`A 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. 25X1X or not the same controls are made on secondary 25X1 X 6e 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 25X1A conclusions since to the effect that the cities of Cej rasi, Olte, aj$ urg UP urn gure e, Corabia and Calafat might be forbidden zones.. SECRET/CONTROL U.S.. OFFICIALS ONLY Approved For Release 2001/12/12 : CIA-RDP80-00810A000800530009-6