GREEKS IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00047R000100460010-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 15, 2002
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: June 26, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 25X
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY
Czechoslovakia.
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Jun 52
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Greeks in Czechoslovakia
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the number of Greeks living in Czecho-
Moravia., in the districts of Jesenik (formerly Frywaldov) and
Valasske Mezirici. Most of the men were employed in the con-
struction and building industries; the women worked on the
state agriculture farms. Older children received training in
various trades
Ai Long this number were many women who had
lost their husbands in World War II, The Greeks were not
scattered among the Czechs but had settled in larger groups,
often setting up their own colonyY Most of these groups had
settled in the northwestern and later in the eastern part of
the Greeks in Czechoslovakia were solidly pro,--Communist.
The children were well fed and housed.- and given a chano:se to
learn a trade by the Czech government? The Greeks retained
their own customs- the did not associate very much. with the
Czechs of any disturbances among Czechs and
Greeks, nor any complaints or rumors of bad
behaviour on the part of the Greek groups in Czechoslovakia,
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