BOOKS AS SOVIET PROPAGANDA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011200320001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 27, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
CLASSIFICATION 4111111CONTROL - U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT
CONFIDENTI
COUNTRY Rumania
25X1 SUBJECT Books as Soviet Propaganda
DATE DISTR.27 March 1952
NO. OF PAGES 2
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
NOT CIRCULATE,
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 193
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON 15
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. Arius, heavily capitalized in 1945 to spread Communism, is encouraging
translation of Soviet books, especially books for juveniles. It is try-
ing to encourage Rumanian writers to express Soviet ideals in native
Rumanian books. It is aided by the Department of Education, which con-
tinues to add more and more material on Communism to the school books,
and by the controlled press. Objectionable books are simply destroyed.
2. Publication of Soviet books in Rumania, since Arius was established,
is as follows:
Year Works translated
Copies printed
1945 99
1949 344
1951 1,696
863,000
4,733,300
18,697,866
These publications are divided as follows:
Purely Soviet literature
38.5 percent
Classic Russian literature
11
Social and Communist problems in the USSR
26.9 "
Soviet science
13.2 I'
Current affairs, albums showing life in the USSR
10.4
100.0 percent
3. Importation of Soviet literature in the Russian
1949
441,473 volumes
1950
730,289 11
1951
1,268,391 it
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4. Other figures exist showing vigorous' propaganda through the bookshops,
but without definite dates. Thus the Publication of Youth have printed
112 books (2,000,000 copies in all), translated from Russian to Ruman-
ian. There have been 66 children's books, making a total of 1,57$,000
copies. Stalin's works have been issued in 5,000,000 copies. The
General Confederation of Labor, the People's Academy of Rumania, and
the Society of Literature and Art pour out books by the thousand.
5. Special commissions work in all towns and villages to spread Soviet
literature. Anyone who wants to study Russian is given the opportunity.
People tievho do not know the language have trouble getting jobs. Workers
have various bulletins and Russian newspapers. Parents are occasionally
caught trying to show their children the errors in these books. They
are detected by the usual espionage carried on by the children them-
selves. Agent provocateurs lead workers into discussions of bulletins
and Soviet newspapers.
.*,6. The Resistance is trying to supply such non-Soviet books as have sur-
vived destruction.
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