MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION ON ORADEA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A064000110001-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 23, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 10, 1962
• Content Type: REPORT

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This material contains Information affecting the National Defense of the United States wi
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to
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SUBJECT Miscellaneous Information on
Oradea
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE &
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REPORT
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1. The city of Oradea, Rumania is the principal city of the
region of Transylvania and has about 100,000 inhabitants.
Agriculture constitutes the main source of wealth of the
region; local industries are few. Oradea is a railroad
center of some importance and has the following railroad
stations:
a.
The main railro
lines: from Be
ad statio
rettyoujf
n is serv
alu (Hung
ed by the
ary); fro
following
m Debrecen
(Hungary); and
from Care
i and Satu Mare.
The st
ation
has between si
x and eigh
t tracks.
There i
s one main
building and o
ne platfor
m. Traction is by
st
eam.
b. The Oradea-East
station
is connec
ted to th
e m
ain
stati
on
and to the swi
tching sta
tion of t
he Cluj-B
ras
ov-
Ploest
i-
Bucharest line
building and o
c. The Oradea-Wes
. The sta
ne platfor
t railroad
tion has
m; tracti
station
four trac
on is by
is connec
ks,
ste
ted
on
am.
to
e main
the
main station a
nd to the
switching
station of
the
Arad-
Timisoara-Vrsa
two or three t
platform; trac
c (Yugosla
racks, a s
tion is by
via) line
ingle mai
steam.
. The st
n buildin
ati
g a
on
nd
has
one
2. One of the industrial installations in Oradea is the Irina
Szenkovits knitted goods factory. This is an old enterprise
which has been in operation for several years but is con-
stantly expanding. The factory is located in the southeast
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part of Oradea at No. 4 Gutemberg Street, in the vicinity of
the fuel depot. The plant occupies ,an, area of about 400 by
500 meters and employs . about` 2,000 workers, imostly women,
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sweaters and T-shirts for men, women and children. Most of
the production is for domestic use; only a small quantity is
exported to countries of the Soviet Bloc. The plant is
equipped with 800 to 900 modern knitting machines which were
made by the Caterina Varga plant of Cluj. Work on the.con-
structian.-of new buildings has been in progress for about one
year; reportedly, they are to be completed by the summer of
1962. These buildings are being constructed on the south.
side of the plant, outside bf the enclosure and will reach
almost as far as the Viale Cluj, Their future use is unknown.
3. Various unidentified military units stationed in Oradea were
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a. Units are located in a block of 8 to 10 old barracks in
the southwest area of Oradea astride the Viale Armate Rosu,
south of the Park, on the road which leads to the civil
airport of Oradea. As many as 20 armored vehicles were
seen leaving the area at one time. These vehicles,
called "cadeur" were equipped with a single
cannon with a barre about meters long. The strength
of these units was estimated to be about 4,000 men. 50X1-HUM
b. A firefighting unit which is assigned to the Rumanian
Army is quartered in barracks on Mihail Kogalniceanu
Street, in the southern section of Oradea. The strength
of the unit is between 700 and 800 men. Among other equip-
ment, the unit has seven or eight modern pumpers with
portable ladders. The personnel of this unit are re-
cruited directly from civilian life, and service performed
with the unit counts as draft service in the Armed Forces.
c. A school for officers of the Securitate is located in
Oradea. Students at this school take a 2-year course
which begins in January of each year. At the end of the
course, the students' receive the rank of second lieutenant.
4. In the fall of 1961, work was completed on the asphalting of
the highway from Oradea to Arad. The portion of the road
from Oradea to Inand, which was previously asphalted, was re-
surfaced. The remainder of the road (Inand-Arad), was paved.
The highway is 126 kilometers long and is six to seven meters
wide.
5. In late November or early December 1961, atrial for 20
persons was held in Oradea at the civil court, behind closed
doors. The defendants were all connected with Oradea
Secondary School No. 4, and had been implicated in a con-
spiracy against the State. They had been accused of setting
up an anti-government group for the specific purpose of
bringing about and conducting propaganda for the annexation
of Transylvania to Hungary. At the time of their arrest,
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they were found to be in possession of weapons, ammunition
and propaganda leaflets. The trial was held very rapidly
and lasted only a few hours, Although the trial was kept
secret and. was not reported by the press, the information
leaked but through the families of the defendants. Persons
involved included five professors and 15 students. The
group was headed by a professor of physics and chemistry
named Andrasi (fnu). The professors were sentenced to 35
years imprisonment and the students received sentences varying
from 6 to 20 years. As a result of the trial, all students of
Secondary School No. 4 were subjected to a screening by a
political commission. All persons who were considered '.
guilty of support or implication, even moral support, were
expelled immediately and forced to take up manual labor in
industrial plants in the area. About 20 students were
expelled.
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Legend for the attached sketch of Oradea
1 - Main railroad station
2 - Oradea-East railroad station
3 - Oradea-West railroad station
4 - Civil hospital No. 1 (for internal ailments and x-rays).
5 - Polyclinic. For examinations and consultations for adults only.
6 - Military hospital
7 - Civil hospital No. 6 (for mental patients)
8 - Regional headquarters of the Securitate. Three-story masonry
building located on Zdanov Street.
9 - Regional headquarters of the Militia.
10 - Prison for ordinary criminals.
11 - Fuel depot. It consists of about 10 metal tanks, all above
ground.
12 - Irina Szenkovits knitted goods factory.
13 - Barracks for firemen
14 - Sports stadium
15 - Barracks area
16 - School for the officers of the Securitate.
17 - Catholic Church
18 - Regiune People's Council
19 - Oradea City People's Council
20 - Infratire agricultural machinery factory
21 - Solidaritatea shoe factory
22 - Civil airport a,,?amat~c
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