SPACE-LOCATION OFFICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001100750004-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2003
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: May 8, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY
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Rumania
Space-Location Office
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
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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lei. Rumania has had to set up a Space-Location Office in order to cope with the
house,, to report on other people with apartments there
Rumanians are, forbidden to change their lodgings without previous authorization
from the Space-Location Office. This is trues even when a man finds a friend
who is willing to take him in.
problem of finding living space for people without lodgings. The Space
Location Office works first for the Soviet officials,, then for the Rumanian
Communist Party members, and finally for Communist workers,. Lodgings are
requisitioned from Rumanian citizens and assigned to individuals approved
by the Rumanian Communist Party..
The Space- Location Office is part .of the Security Ministry. A large part of
its work is not securing lodgings at all, but exercising additional surveillance
over the Rumanian people, There is a Presponsible" in each district. There
are also Party members9 placed by the Space-Location Office in each apartment
Requisition of living space in Rumania is actually only a legal form of
spoliation. A recent Communist Party order to the office in Bucharest
instructed it to clear out three hundred apartments as soon as possible.
These were to be at the disposal of Soviet citizens about to arrive in Bucharest.
Aided byy police authorities., the office cleared out private homes in Bucharest's
Pare Filipescu, thus making room for the incoming Soviet families. In cities of
strategic importance., such as Constanta, Rumanian citizens must have a permit
to continue living there.
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