ARREST OF SOVIET OFFICERS IN RUMANIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001600960002-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 4, 2009
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: July 13, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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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SECURITY INFORMATION
REPORT
SUBJECT Arrest of Soviet, Officers in Rumania DATE DISTR. 13 July 1953
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1.. In early 1953 a number of Soviet officers belonging to garrisons in Bucharest,
Iasi, Galati, Sibiu, Tiniisoara and Craiova were arrested. One of the reasons
given for the arrests was the spreading of anti-Soviet literature.
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2. A detention camp is located at Podul Iloaei, near Iasi. Deserters from the Soviet
Army are held here while waiting to be sent to the Soviet Union. Soviet officers
ne ,t held in the camp are: Lt. General Dmitri Fedoro v i ch Moroschnikov of the
Armored Division in Lugoj, and Captains Yavdoshenko, Ryabov and Popov.
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