DR. CONSTANTIN PARHON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000900190012-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: September 12, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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SUBJECT Dr. Constantin Parhon
COUNTRY R is
ORIGIN
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1. Dr. Constantin P? hon, notch, R nian leur sychiat .st and `: rorsity p i'ofessz) z,
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2.. During the Legionnaire regime a:-ad later under the Antonescu &?atatorship, he vs
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meetings with Professor D. P.agc zar, C., Mar esou, and
esthete, in which dictatorial methods were condemned r?o i a hu ",~>itarian. rather
than a political point of view. I'robabl_;y as a result of his t titude, P ?hon
was relieved of his teaching du ties and mado an honorary prof .:: sr at the
Bucharest Faculty of Medicine in March 1912 because of c?advani 41 ace". The
part he played in protesting th iwj - persecution of nu r~aus ,3 d . doctors trader
the racial Laws also contributed to his being pensioned by :h'. .ntoneecu ree .me.
Nevertheless he continued to practice medicine at the Central . {petal ever. after
he was pensioned, making no sec:Aet of his hostility to the rei..Line. In June
1944 he signed the first manifest against the AAntonesc>u rover,tr, together
with sixty-three other University professors.
Following the fall of the Anton ,scu regime on 23 August 91 !, ' ;.rhon becaf.;ae
interested in the establishment of closer relations between and the
Soviet Union. In Novauber 1944 he became president of A3 LUS, &,, aaxociation
for promoting- such a re ,.tionsh:i p, and has been particoj nr?l.y give in urging
closer scientific and cultural ties with Russia. In October
he visited th
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Soviet Union and on his return wrote a series of descriptive r ml,icles,.
14. Parhon was atocted deputy for Uarramiires County on the Communi~., 'arty tid-,et
in November 1916 and is considered one of the strongest suppo, I- rs of the
present regime.
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