RELIGIOUS MISSIONARIES AS COMMUNIST PROPAGANDISTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000200060047-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: May 27, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Religious Missionaries as Comaaaist Propagandists
DATE D4STR A7 May 1954
O F THE UNITED STATES. WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE IS. SECTIONS 701
AND 704. OF THE U.S. COOK. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVt-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO ON RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON 11
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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REPORT NO.
1. The Communist Government of Rumania has now been seised with the idea of exploiting
religious missionaries (so-sailed) as a awns of spreading Communist propaganda.
This offers a awns ~ of *0nting Cogs. ist Sgents abroad.
2. Sovfral members of the Organisation of Partisans for tease have now been sent to
various lumaniaa n nastrles. more tkq are to st?7sa* matters as can be given
a reli$iras aspect and yet ens $ used to spread $eniinisa. These preparations
are 'h charge of the Conmu list fish p, ralerisa
3. no first group these missionaries is getting ready to depart for Africa, as
reecoasndedl b,-..t 1USSR. Student missionaries who have finished their training,
Will be sent Noseor _for-. final odmpational tozshes, Rumanian Communists have
mat hitherto been wait.foractivity abroad.
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