SITUATION IN RUMANIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002300430012-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2000
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: February 7, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT Situation in Rumania
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1. "The internal situation continues to deteriorate. The campaign (sic)
against the Communist Party of Rumania is becoming more intense. 03.d
Communist officials who contributed to the establishment of the present
regime in Rumania and who personally assisted the present ruler of
Rumania have been removed from their posts (in the Party) and are under
police surveillance.
2. "The cause of this tactic is said to be the fact that, at the recent
meetings of officials of the Communist Party of Rumania, many of the
leading members had the courage to express the opinion that #The policy
of the Soviets followed at present in Rumania, regardless of the fact
that we owe them our liberation, tends to transform our most fanatical
followers into enemies of the Party.'
3. "Those who have not yet been arrested are fleeing into Yugoslavia,
accepting apparently the views of Tito regarding Nationalist (sic) Com-
munists.
L1. "Those (Yugoslavs) representing the views of the Cominform, on the other
hand,. are fleeing from Yugoslavia Into Rumania and Hungary.
50 "The senior diplomatic employees of the Yugoslav Embassy and Consulate
in Bucharest have denounced Tito, either willingly or unwillingly. The
diplomatic corps here is placed before the spectacle of a continuous fight
raging between Anna Pauker and Tito.
6. "Recently a large number of proclamations directed against Pauker were
found scattered in the barracks, the University and the various in-
stitutions. These proclamations charged her with being a traitor who by
her acts is consciously advancing to the destruction of Rumania. It is
said (and it is probable) that these proclamations were printed in
Yugoslavia.
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"Packer is practicing a tyrannical and despotic administration in her
ministry. Senior employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are insulted
by her, and she herself has beaten some of them.
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8. "The newly elected Patriarch of Rumania, in spite of the opposition of
prime Minister Grose
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on instructions from Russia. He is a rude country priest. As a result,
most Rumanians have ceased going to church and performing their religious
duties. They are demanding priests ordained by the previous regime.-
Many of the priests and theologians have nought to resign, but they were
given to understand that they would be prosecuted as reactionaries and
opponents of the regime, and consequently changed their mind
"Many Serbs from the regions of Bukovina and the Banat, who incline to
favor the views of Tito, have been exiled from their homes in order to
compel them to denounce Tito. The Tugoalav Goverm
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vigorously to the Rumanian Government, and has stated that it would take
corresponding measures against the Rumanians located on Yugoslav
territory (,rho so far have not been bothered).
10. "The food situation has deteriorated.
11. "The case of the Rumanian oil wells has not yet been clarified. The
former American and British directors have been prosecuted, and some of
them have been imprisoned on the charge of sabotaging production. A new
Company has been formed to manage the oil Wells; the Russians hold ],
percent of they stock, and the Rumanians 149 percent. Americans and British
have not been indemnified. The Rumanian Government made a proposal for
indemnification, but the Americans and British did not accept it. I do
not know what the outcome of this case will be. Perhaps it will go to the
International Court at the Hague, or possibly the Rumanian proposals will
be accrepted, or the case will remain unsettled.
12. "The press in general has published bitter attacks against the United
Nations, Greece, and- the decision taken by the Politics). Committee which
recognized the guilt of the Northern Neighbors - a decision which will be
approved by the General Assembly,
13? "The missions from Markos travel about the various provinces, spreading
propaganda among the Greek element and seeking support and help for Markos."
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