RELIABILITY OF THE RUMANIAN ARMED FORCES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005700830006-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 8, 2008
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: January 17, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLKlCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Information
COWIb TIAL
COMM Rmanu
$I*JECT Reliability of the Romanian
Ai sd Domes
DATE OF INFO.
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THE APPRAISAL OF CONTRIT M T001TATIVE.
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16 The sewri Fore" (seearitate)are khe Most reliable tool of the annmian
rsii. L ambers wlan1 to the oa~Inriat Party and as of %= are
speoif~ea'l~r r"roited pant 01" tip .alt rel forees P nw1. Are sesurity
fore" are used to sappetrt the Douai f ee; to poll any p *lie denenstra-
tione, Kates oar Wrest; to o aabst pprhiNm cad r"i'stanee sumate to
Garry out ]arsltO- showo on quseti. Is per; to provide eseerte for
hish poblio officials; and to nets or incidentsa~a~ t the
state. The aerate '10 ~attr.ej.y h1@11111''11114040110 thapr are the noit t red of
the military foraes, and reeasve prof rsitial treatment and benefit.,
2. Meibers of the special branches of the Rmanian arced forces, snr:h as the
Navy
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supply of fuel because the regime was afraid that they would defect.
Whenever going out on a training cruise, two or three Securitate
officers, wearing naval officer uniforms, came aboard the vessel.
case of war.
~umanian war vessels never receive more than a two-hour 25X1
the Army would surrender in large nu:jere to the Allies in 25X1
the Rumanian Army would be 25X1
intentionally ineffective against native Rumanian resistance groups. The
only way troops would be induced to fire upon their people would be if
Soviet troops were included in the units.
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a great animosity existed on the part
of the Rumanian soldier toward the Soviet troops who have been instructing
Rumanian units. Soviet soldiers were quartered in the same area as
Rumanian soldiers but received preferential treatment. Because the Soviet
soldier was in a superior status compared to the Rumanian soldier and
because he was still part of an occupation army, resentment existed from a
personal and nationalistic point of vier.
CONFIDENTIAL
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