1. POSSIBLE URANIUM MINES NEAR AIUD AND HUEDIN 2. ABANDONMENT OF THE DANUBE-BLACK SEA CANAL

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000400030008-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 12, 2009
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: July 14, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY.
INFORMATION REPORT
CONI'TDENTII4L
This Document contains Information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form Is prohibited.
SUBJECT 1. Possible Uranium Mines near Aiud
and Huedin
2. Abandonment of the Danube-Black
Sea Canal
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 14 JAY 1951
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:Trans lvania in the vicinity of the towns of Aiud LT 46-19,
E 23-l37 and Huedin ATi 46-52, E 23-037
uranium was being mined in
N age, w- c is west or u,
p, ace nrestricted area in which uranium was being
extracted
COUNTRY Rumania
REPORT
DATE. DISTR. 11 June 1984
SUB]ECT., 1: Possible Uranium Mines near `Aiud and NO. OF PAGES 3
Huedin
2Abandonment of the Dan be-Black Sea Canal
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b.
sto ed b the..Securitate at a point five
kilometers
a hi wire fence which was being patrolled
ecuritate personnel.
two or three other villages had been included-in the
vijLjLaLge been Cornatelul or Urec es .
oeing a rac e n tie res r c e' area and Lurani lumgwanums 25X1
bers of laborers with their families had been admitted
behind the barbed wire fence. .
many of the
technicians formerly employed on h-e--B ac ea-Danube Canal
were transferring to Aiud and to Huedin. The owner, Mrs.
CURC4N, complained that she was losing many of her good
customers.
2. Huedin:
fobs at Huedin paid
those on the canal.
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approximately 1,000 lei more per month than
III. Abandonment of Danube-Black. Sea Canal:
1.
the Danube Black Sea.Canal Project was evidently abandoned
e use higher priority projects in Rumania required manual
labor.
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2. In September 1953 all work on the canal had stopped and the
thousands of laborers previously employed were removed from the
sites-. only the dike at Capul Midia
5 44-21., E 213-417 was still under construction in late fall
of 1953.
Considering the investment and the years of propaganda con
cerning the canal, the project must have been abandoned only
because labor was urgently needed at more important sites.
It was rumored in Constants that the labor from the canal had
been transferred to the Aiud and Huedin uranium projects and
possibly also to the Bioaz approximately N.46-49, E 25-5''V
hydroelectric project.
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