BLOOD COLLECTIONS FOR ARMY NEEDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000100080041-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: December 21, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT 25X1A
COUNTRY Rumania
Blood Collections for Army Needs
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DATE (OF INFO.) 26 Seth,
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I. The campaign for the collection of blood. in the Rumanian Peopl.ers Republic,
which began by invitai;ions to contribute voluntarily, has now become an
obligation of the regime. All citizens are required to have their blood
tested, though there is no charge for giving the tests. However, when individuals
present themselves for blood tests, the amount of blood taken is not the five
cubic centimeters needed for a test, but fifty to sixty cubic centimeters.
Citizens who refuse to submit to this test, are fined fifty lei,
2. Each district of a town has its own blood collecting center. Workers are requ'.red
to give 250 cubic centimeters, every three weoks. "his is subjected to modern
desiccating procedures and is preserved for the use of the army. In return, the
workers receive free issue of a certain quantity of food--oil, flour, and rice.
Sometimes they also receive a little soap, which is very rare in Rumania.
3* People working in the state stores also, theoretically, receive foodstuffs.
1+. The Communist Party draws up special lists of persons from whom extra quantities
of blood are to be taken, Source describes these quantities as "criminal pro-
portions."
5. New directives are being sent out to all state enterprises in Rumania, directing
that no ration cards are to be issued to workers till they have given the amounts
of blood demanded of them. Workers or employees in private enterprises are not
allowed to have any ration cards at all, if they possess half an hectare of
arable land of their own. They also pay a 50 lei fine If they do not contribute
their share of blood.
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