ESTIMATE OF ROMANIAN REFUGEES IN HUNGARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90M00005R000700070006-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 16, 2012
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: July 23, 1988
• Content Type: CABLE

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BJ`=_ESTTMC;TE-OFTROMANIAN_REFUGEES IN HUNGARY
REF: STATE 5234355 (NOTAL)
2. WE NOT THAT THE SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE
REPORT (REFTEL) CONTAINS AN ESTIMATE IN PARR 18 THAT
THERE ARE "ABOUT 30,000 ETHNIC HUNGARIANS AND ABOUT
6,000 ETHNIC ROMANIANS FROM TRANSYLVANIA IN HUNGARY" AS
REFUGEES. WHILE EMBASSY BUDAPEST IS UNDOUBTEDLY IN THE
BEST POSITION TO JUDGE THIS ESTIMATE, WE FIND IT MUCH
HIGHER THEN THE 12;000 OR SO FIGURE THAT WAS THE
HIGHEST WE HAD PREVIOUSLY HEARD. WE HAVE TRIED TO
FOLLOW EMBASSY BUDAPEST'S REPORTING ON THIS VERY
CLOSELY.
3. HUNGARIAN DAILY MAGYAR HIRLAP REPORTED ON JUNE 10
THAT ALMOST 5,000 ROMANIANS OF ALL ETHNIC GROUPS HAD
RECEIVED TEMPORARY RESIDENCE PERMITS. IN APRIL,
BUDAPEST OFFICIALS HAD ESTIMATED THAT ONLY ABOUT TEN
PERCENT OF REGISTERING REFUGEES-WERE ETHNIC ROMANIAN
OR GERMAN. THEREFORE, ALTHOUGH-THERE ARE UNDOUBTEDLY
A LARGE NUMBER OF REFUGEES WHO ARE AFRAID TO COME
FORWARD., 36,000 STILL SEEMS VERY HIGH.
4. WE. WOULD BE VERY INTERESTED IN KNOWING THE SOURCE
AND PRESUMED RELIABILITY OF THIS ESTIMATE. AS A COM-
PARISON, WE NOTE THAT ONLY ABOUT 2,000 ROMANIAN REFUGEES
ARE POCESSED ANNUALLY IN THE' REFUGEE CENTER IN NEIGH-
BORING YUGOSLAVIA, LONG A FAVORED DESTINATION FOR
ROMANIAN REFUGEES. CLARKE
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