ITALIAN METHODS IN THE SOUTH TIROL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000300650005-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: January 11, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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(a) A letter addressed to the $PP by the local branch, of
the Association for Returned Prisoners of War revealing
that the...ltel tan State Railways have turned dorm the
applications for work of some 200 South Tirolese because
of police reports describing the applicants as having
"Austrian eenti Eents", being "friends of Austria" or.
"+a.nti .Italian"
(b) A letter addressed by a South Tirolose member of the
Italian Christian Democratic Party to a Trentim Deputy,
Indicating that this Italian Authorities are financing
the mixoorit opposition groups and newspapers in this
South Tirol.
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Other complaints heard against the Italians in the South Tirol inelude the
follow a
The unchecked ation of Italiens from Centrat and
Southern Itchy to South Tirol. ;;n the course of one day
6,000 of such immigrants are alleged to have received
pavdta to reside in 13olzanop despite the acute housing
shortage,
(b) The Italian financing of weekly newspaper, disguised as
South Tirulese papers, which attack the SVP and particua
ter Its delegates to Paris.
(c) The Italian refusal to settle the Qptanta' question1,
%%Ue granting nationality papers to a number of very
deuhtful German (including Herr Smendt and 1rr? Aichner)
who have assisted the Italian Authorities against the
South Tiroleseq
(d) The behavior of the Italian Authorities in the eo-.ccried
"tom incident" when the South Tirolese Deputy Mayor
.of a village with a preponderantly German-speaking rnaJor-
ltyr was dismissed and aix local youths were arrested and
y
stained for reeks without trial, for removing an Italian
flag- Previously the Deputy r had warned the Italian
YlVor that it would be an unnecessary provocation to diem
play the flag, 'while the youths before removing it asked
the Italia Mayor to hang out a South Tirolesa flag ,Longs
side itQ
(e) The complete disregard of the interests of the local popu.
lation in the latest projects hr the exploitation of local
electrical power. In some cases dame are allegedly to be
built which will necessitate the destruction of whole vil.
lases, without consulting the local population,
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