PRISONS IN RUMANIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005800030008-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 9, 2008
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 17, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT Prisons in Rumania
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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prisoners were held. None of the prisoners had
kept there blI administrative orders.
2. The Margineni prison is a former monastery in which over Ann
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The Ohencea camp was comprised of over sixty large barracks buildings former1;25X1
used by the Germane and located near the Bucharest cemetery. There were be-
tween 10 and 12 thousand men and women in the Ohencea camp. Most of the
prisoners were employed in workshops making barrels. Food conditions in the
camp were very bad. Prisoners were given 250 grams of bread dai],yj two days 25X1
a week they received mamaliga instead of brea4. They received a cup.. of tea
in the morning and soup for lunch and dinner. Sanitary conditions were
extremely poor. Mater prisoners were ill but were rarely ever given ary medical
treatment. The mortality rate in the amp was very high. Informant remained
in this camp until the and of August 1953 when the camp was abolished after the
amnesty granted by the Rumanian Government in the celebration of "23 August".
The prisoners were either set free or transferred to other prisons. Marq
priests were in the camp and were among the first to be freed.
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DATE DISTR. 17 January 1955
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the Bragadirou farm, a prison which is located
distance of about 30 antes by car from Bucharest. Bragad'rou Six hundredison
at a prisoners guilty of sabotage and thefts had been 600 Politeical prisoners took
but after the amnesty they were set free and a f a= raising
their places. In the prison the inmates worked on a m large far than at the was vegetables. The food in the Bragadir
dai
~ and the prisoners had two
Ghencea camp. Bread ration was 600 grams fresh vegetable's and
dishes for lunch and one for dinner including cigarettes daily
meat quite often. Each prisoner received a ration lu
tor of the prison was a LLeute
The director nant Ar~3soners.
who was very decent in his treatment of the p
the Galati Central prison.
sons in Rwnani.a. Over 1,000
is considere o be one of the director of the Galati prison was Nicolas
prisoner a detained there- whose oonduct was generally criticized. Food
conditt, the Galati prison were very similar to the Ghencea camp.
condi.tio~ns in
Prisoners were entitled to receive a Live-kilo package of food monthly from
elatives, but o those who served the interests or stof the directersrwere eceived
r o sent back
their packages. The reaaind~'
allowed to bathe every 15 Ws-
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