RUMANIAN INTERMENT CAMPS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000100090082-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 27, 2000
• Sequence Number: 82
• Publication Date: December 30, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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DEC 1951
Approved For Release 2001/03/04: CIA-RDP81-01036R000100090082-2
U.S. Officials Only
SECRET
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT Rumanian Internment Camps
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DATE ACQUIRED
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DATE (OF INFO.) 5 Nov 53
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1. Only one camp. has been set tip in Rumania for Communist "deviationistss: Sighet,
a speaiai. camp for' purged' Communists near Sighet (department of Maramures in
the northern part ` of Rumania 9 ' neax? the Czechoslovak border. This was for perly
a ttransfer camp and prisoners nianncamps from
NomoneehaUSSR. It ! any realsinfo rma
of orraa-
tion as to what goes on behind its barbed wire.
2. There are two camps for priests.
a. Ploeoti A'special camp built near the city limits for Orthodox priests'who
refuse to coaperate with the Communists. Five hundred priests were interned
there at the end of 1952.
b. VllhiVa: More than a thousand priests are interned in the camp at Vldh1 a,
Transylvania.
3. There are also two internment camps for children.
a. Ha~eg: This is south of the city of Deva, Department of Hunedoara, Transyl-
vania. The camp was built for this purpose,in the city of HiVeg. It con-
fines oh.ldren taken from their parents during 1952. They are aged,between
nine and sixteen.
b. Craiova: Eight hundred of the Greek children, taken from their families in
Greece by the Communists formerly fighting there, have been brought from
the USSR. They are now in a suburb of the city. of Craiova.
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