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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R012000080007-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 27, 2011
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: May 13, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDEMAL
SECURITY INFORIOTIO11
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT Economic Information
DATE OF
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PLACE
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T1IS 10C0E11T CONTAINS IAFORMATIDO AFFECTING TAE NATIONAL DEFFRSE
OF TUE WRITER STATES. AITRIN TAE WAMINSOFTITLE IN, SECTIONS T93
AND T94. OF TAE R.S. CORE. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR 0ECEIFE DT AN SUADTI00IZER PERSON IS
P00010NTED RT LAW. TOE REPRODUCTION OF TONS FORM IS P1011DITEC.
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1. Principal exports to the Soviet Union through the harbor of Consta a
include such items as sugar, cement, glass, pipe, cereals, timber,
petroleum products and fruit pulp. Reportedly, the entire output of
the Phoenix seed oil refinery is also being exported to the Soviet
Union.
2. The use of merchandise purchased in State-operated shops for making
other products which are intended for sale on the open market is
prohibited. Two pastry confectioners were tried in a public square
in Bucharest and sentenced to six years imprisonment for having
used sugar, which they had bought in State shops to make past
which was later sold on the market. the 50X1-HUM
trial of these two men was the first trial which has ever been held
in an open square in Rumania.
3.- Farmers are required by law to turn over 35 per cent of all pork
they obtain from their slaughtered pigs to an organization called
Comcar. Those who operate poultry farms are also required to turn
over to Comicar an unspecified quantity of eggs during each year.
4. The Rumanian Government plans to establish a new agency, to be
named Torburi, which will control all private businesses still
functioning in the country. This agency will also supervise all
professionals such as doctors and lawyers.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING. THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES. WITHIN TEE NEANINGOFTITLE 1N, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVS-
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1. In September and November 1951 all the employees of government-operated
enterprises were compelled to participate in air defense exercises. In
Bucharest the street "responsibles" inspected all attics to make certain
that no inflammable materials were stored there.
2. Meetings were held in various factories and enterprises to urge the
employees and workers to'donate blood for hospital blood banks. Each
person was requested to donate between 300 and 400 grams of blood.
Among the first to volunteer were the chiefs of personnel and the
political "guides". Their example was later followed by the workers.
A new government project calls for the evacuation from Constanta of
16,000 "politically unreliable" persons.
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FEB 1952
CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
COUNTRY Rumania
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE
ACQUIRED
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 799
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
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1. Eight, hundred I Corrmun..st bandits were employed as workers in a
2, At meetings held throughout the country imoed.sat.ely after the monetary
redor)d1., wo i{.e 's were told +"?Y; at the Government 6( compel -Led to change
its currency because "Amer-1-an planes had dropped. into the , ountry large
quantities of forged. Rumanian cur ~nc. '"
the monetary reform, was quelled by a or?cce of 300 rmilit.ia. After
the riot., the management of the factorTi granted salary advances to the
workers. Reportedly., similar ricts took A I.e.^u at the 2 August
Factory and the Grivrita CFR workshops, also i.n protest against the
monetary reform.
A riot broke out at the Vulcan Factory irk Buc-harec_..t early in February
1952, The riot., which w s r~ c ro? ed unsatisfied.
workers who had received their pay in old lei only a few days before 50X1-HUM
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