COMMENT ON THE PRESENT INTERNATIONAL SITUATION IN THE LIGHT OF COMMUNIST PSYCHOLOGY MADE BY A RANKING OFFICIAL OF THE ROMANIAN STATE SECURITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004400130012-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2004
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: February 25, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT Comaent on the Present International
situation in the Light of Cemmm._ st
Psychology .lade' by a Ranking Official
Pl...ACE of the Rumanian. state Security
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A high official in a recent
discussion of the international situation stressed the fact
that although the industrial production of the USSR was less than that of
the United States,, the USSR had a large reserve of manpower for military
purposes. Furtaierrmore, the element of surprise favored the USSR because
the Americans and British were inexp.3rieneed in the use of ruses and in.
"'bad faith" and this fact was more than a small handicap for them. The
ataxic bonb, ho declared, was a decisive "military" *eapon, but there were
in France and Italy sufficient Conn n.Csts to paralize the vital centers of
those nations at "H honr"o These Cori nict Parties are mere than a Fifth
Column; as a destructive force they rank with an atonic explosion.
2. According to this official, the kaericclns are now studying a business that
the Russians "know by heart"o As an ex.mnple of their "naivete" (this
official apparently uses the term "American" for both north and South
Americans) he cited the case of the Legation in I icharesto This
Legation employed a Rumanian who unsucccest y attempted to flee the
country clandestinely. 11e was caught, Imprisoned and forced to become an
agent of the Rumanian State Security,, after which he was rehiredi
accepted without question his vague
explanations" as to what had happened. T,ie Russians and Rumanians, the
official declared, would never commit such an error.,
3, The Soviets have never"pardoned" any Soviet citizen who was taken prisoner
by the Germans All liberated prisoners were sent deep into the USSR for
IIr?eeducation". Likewise, the Soviet aviatcr who was recently compelled under
threat of death by his passengers to land in Yugoslavia had no desire to
return, not because he was guilty of any crime but simply because he would
have been shot.,
4. The "more honest Communists" will never pard:?z the slightest gesture of
admiration toward an adversary, even though an individual guilty of such an
act demostrates throughout his life the greatost fidelity to the Party.
Even the slightest deviation from this principle of the Party cannot be
compensated for by any amount of sacrifices for the Party,,
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