DENATIONALIZATION OF THE DOBROGEA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006800470007-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 1, 2008
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: May 23, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.B.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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REPORT
Denationalization of the Dobrogea DATE DISTR.
23 May 1955
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1. Since the occupation of Rumanian the-Soviets have inaugurated a policy
of denationalization of the Dobrogea, which they ,consider particularly
interesting from a military standpoint. The Soviets have brought about
a series of rulings aimed at the exclusion of the Rumanian population
from all local activities in order to compel them to leave the area.
Included in these rulings area
a. The return to Transylvania and to the Banat'of all Rumanian families
who cam?'for colonization poses to the Dobrogea in the past
century6
be Evacuation of a great number of Rumanian centers from Southern
Dobrogea and dubatitutint elements of Bulgarian origin'or Bulgarians
brought in from Bulgarias
o. Favoring' progressive irmrd,gration ~ of the so-oallod "small Russian"
aloments9 mainly from Bessaraaiae
d. The central authoritiee favor the emigration of elements of Turkish
origin which at one time were ve r numerous in the lalomita district.
2. According to the census taken at the and of 1951p the present situation
of the population of the Dobrogea is as followsir
Auz~niar,~
Bulgarians
Russians
Turks9 etc.
19 1
35 percent 55 percent
20 percent 15 percent
32 percent 11 percent
13 percent 17 percent
3. Retired Soviet servicemen receive mfr benefits if they come to live in
the Dobrogea with their families.
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