CENSORSHIP OF FOREIGN MAIL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010100340009-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 16, 2002
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: February 18, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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'SUBJECT Censorship of Foreign Mail
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Since June 1951 new mail. and censorship regulations regarding foreign
mail were posted in each post office throughout Rumania. These regulations
stated that "Due to the number of complaints being made to postal authorities,
regarding mail forwarded to and received from foreign countries, the Minister
of Communications has decreed. that all such mail will be accepted by the postal
authorities, and will onlry be turned over to receiving individuals upon
proper- personal identification and signerk ire?'
2. Lumedlately after the!-;e regulations were posted all individuals sending
mail to foreign countries were forced to present the mail personally,, to
identify themselves, furnish their address and identity card number, and
sign a registry book.,
3:, Fcreign mail arriving into Rumania is delivered to the receiver by the
postman, who must get the receivers name, address, identity card number,
and personal signature before giving up the mail
In case the receiver is not found at home, the postman leaves a notice of
mf.?.l arrival, which instructs the receiver where to apply and how. to receive
h_,s nail. i,henever the receiver applies for nis mail he is forced to
go through the identical procedures already mentioned above before
receiving mail..
As a result of the regulations, the inhabitants of Rumania for:,rarding mail
t.t~ fcreign countries, became very caroful in forrniag the text of their
:5.r+tE-rs, and reduced. their correspondence to a minimum.
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