PURGES AND DEPORTATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013200190005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 27, 2006
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: July 31, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT Purges and Deportations
DATE OF
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a0 Approximately 29000 officers and employees of the Securitatea were purged
following the dismissal of the formerMinister of the Interior Teohari
Georgesou0 Many officers were also transferred from one town to another.
bo A large number of Militia and Seouri-tatea personnel were dismissed during
the month of February 1'9520 Many of the discharged persons were sent to
the labor camps of the Danube River-Black Sea Canal project.
co Aurel Vijoli, the Communist-appointed Governor of the Rumanian State Bank,
was recently dismissed and replaced by one Pet.rescu, a former political
director of the A.rmya Vijoli reportedly caused his own, downfall because
of his insistence on running the State Bank with the old staff of competent
employees rather than with new employees whose only qualification in
banking was loyalty to the Regime. After the dismissal of.Vijoli, approxi-
mately 2,000 employees of the bank were removed from their jobs0
d. It was rumored in Galati that the dismissal of Vasile Luca, former Minister
of Finance, was caused by the fact that. Communist authorities discovered
Luca had large deposits in foreign banks.
2a Deportations:
eported-f
the following categories of peopl?a
(1) Persons who were actively engaged in politics since 1932
(2) Former members of the judiciary
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(3) Officers who were purged or pensioned
(43 Former "large" industrialists
(5) Former "smaller" industrialists
(6) Former small industrialists and businessmen
(7) Former owners of nationalized houses
(8) People sentenced for political crimes and former members of the
Iron Guard
(9) Former college and gymnasium professors
(10) Pensioners over 60 years of age
(11) Businessmen still in business
b, On 11 March 1952, approximately 60 families of foreign nationals living
in Mangalia were advised to evacuate Mangalia within eight days, for
settlement either in the Baragan plain or in one of the following cities
or towns: Buzau, Ramnicul Sarat, Craiova,, Pitesti, Foosani and Odobesti.
The deportation of all foreign nationals residing in Mangalia was followed
by the deportation of the following categories of Rumanian nationals
living in this town:
(1) People actively engaged in politics
(2) Former officers of the Army, Navy or Air Force
(3) Former businessmen
(4) Former owners of nationalized properties
(5) I mnoral persons
Co The last deportations from Mangalia left the town with only 1,500 inhabitants;
previously some 5,000 persons lived therm All the deportees were advised
they could no longer leave their new, selected place of residence without
prior approval of the local Militia. In order to enforce this regulation,
all. identity yards belonging to the evacuees were withheld by the Militia.
Among the most brutal and ruthless individuals collaborating with the
Militia and the Communist Party in the deportation program in the Dobrudgea
and the Baragan plain areas are members of the Tartar minority in Rumania.
de During May 1952,, informant saw several trains arriving from the direction
of Giurgiuo The trains were filled with evacuee families who were en route
to Moldavia.
in Braila there were rumors to the effect that
approximately 1,500 prisoners were recently deported from Rumania to the
Soviet Union.
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