CONDITIONS IN RUMANIAN PRISONS/TORTURE/NAMES OF PROMINENT PRISONERS/DETAILS ON JILAVA AND AIUD PRISONS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00926A003800020007-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 25, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO
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SUBJECT Conditions in Rumanian Prigons/Tortureilames NO. OF PAGES 3
Prominent Prisoners/Details on Maya and Aiud Prisons
COUNTRY Rumania
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1.
"Ordinarily, political prisoners in Rumania are transferred from other
prisons and places of arrest to the 0Ji1aval prisons after being subjected
to a relatively brief period of questioning and torture. The prisoners
sent to Jilava include both those who have already been sentenced and
those who have not. Before finally coming to these terrible underground
prisons which are not far from Buoharest, they are either questioned by the
aSecuritateal, the 111.unanien Secret Police, or by the Secret Service of In-
formation?the S S I?with offices in the former gMalmesono barrack of the
capital.
2. "The oSecuritateae itself has several so-called ?1aboratories8 in Bucharest
where the prisoners are subjected to seven stages of torture:
(a) Flogging the victim on the soles of his feat.
(b) Subjectieg the victim to so-called 0Manejo courses: he is made to run
around in the nude in the interrogation room for 24 to 60 hours without
!topping t,all.
(c) Beating the victim with an iron bar on the soles of his feet while he has
his shoes on.
(A) 1Craekine the eectim up: his hands are tied to his knees, he is suspended
. from the ceilings, and from time to time he is made to fall on the
, ground with a terrific 'thud.
ee chest2 ths victim is made to lie on the floor and. a light
then placed oil his chest. Then two or three agents keep
1 ?1,A10 with their clubs for hours on end.
Pushing pins under the prisoneris nails.
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(g) seating the victim on his testicles: They are put into a narrow sack and
held to a special board, then beaten rythmically with a pliable metal
whip.
3. The head of the aSecuritateal, a Russian by the name of Sergiu Nikolov-Nikolski,
personally takes part in the torturing of those political prisoners Who had
Once been important people.
4. "At the S 8 I prison in Bacharest, a well-known petty police officer, Marculescu,
personally takes charge of the torturing of the prisoners. He is about 35
years old. and cam be recogaised by the white lock in his otherwise chestnut
colored hair. When both the S S I and the aSecuritate0 are through with in-
terrogating the political prisoners, they have them transferred to Jilava.
There is also a special section there for women political prisoners.
5. "Upon first entering the Jilava prisonbuildiags, the prisoners are stripped
naked, and all parts of their body, especially those places Where they could
possibly hide something, are thoronahly searched. This searchiag is done by
militiamen recruited from among the gypsies of Jilava. Among them is the
sadistic commander, Maromet, who always takes part in the searching of the
prisoners.
6. "At the present time, there are 2,500 prisoners at Jilava. Among them are
the following fairly well-known people:
Mikal Manoileseix, one-time Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Mikal Romniceanu, a former Minister.
Ton Camil, former director of the allesitzal metal establiahments.
General Coroama.
Crisoghelos, engineer and former director of the telephone company.
Bebe Fundrscae, former merchant.
Titel Petresea, head of the mo-longer existing Social Democratic Party.
Prof Motes, a socialist--there are also a number of other socialists interned
at Jilava.
Commander Calm. Dote, a former naval attache.
7. "In the prise?n section for Women there were three women awaiting transfer to
the Mielea prison: Mrs Pia Bratianu, wife of the former Prime Minister,
Ioael Beatianu, Mrs Simona Catargi, and Mrs Arlette Coposu.
8. "The womaaas section at Jilava is guarded by armed women guards who carry
Sovieteran pistols of the aBalalaical type.
9. The Maya prison authorities are extremely severe and bratal. Last Christmas
the political prisoners, wanting to celebrate, began to sing carols but their
Joy was not to last for loasg. The Militia Commander Maromet punished them by
making them go oat naked in the corridors. Then he and two other militiamen,
Iamandi and Szabo, whipped them until their blood ran.
10. "Jilava is a prison center where people who are arrested are tried and from
there sent to various other prisons to fulfil their sentences. Students are
usually sent to the prison of Pitesti, workers to that of Gherla in Traxsyl-
vania, so-called lwar criminals a and political prisoners who have committed
serious crimes crimes are sent to the prison of Aiud. Women prisoners, no matter
om what basis they have been convicted, are transferred to the prison of
Mislea, in Munteniae
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11. So;m.e of the prieo ere *lent up to the Aiud prison
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Stefan Benteiu, farmer Minister.
Gheorghe Copcsue a Termer leader of the National Peasant Party.
Atta Constatatineseu, a former Minister.
Ilie Lazar, former Deputy of the Rational Peasants.
Pr Tile Readulescue a journalist.
Remus Georgescu, former member of the National Peasaat Party.
Nichifor Robn, a former depetye
12. "Among thoes prisoners who had been taken to Aiud ad then drafted into the
forced, labor beigadee working on the Danele-Black Sea Cana/ are Major Dinu
Vasilin, Prasda Muateemu-Ramnic and others. Last November, a *umber of civil-
ians aled military prisonere Were transferred from Maya to Aiud Where they
were made to work in the nearby lead mixes. Ameag them were the university
-professor. Ni] Taaveizeame, and Cemmander Cepaciu.\
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-13. At Alud, all the prisexere wear a etriped ualferm. They are interaed ix the
varioea prison leuelliage seeoe&ing to the way their ?crimes1 are classified.
IR the oil prison, kw n ae Sarea9 there ?re 300 military and political
peizeaere ef a eertain eategoey kept la solitary confixament. In sections
1 sad 2 of the prieen, eempeeed of three floors, the prisoners live together,
20 of them ix veary cell. Is the baeamext there are 400 cells where special
punishments are adminietered. Four hundred militiamen keep order within the
wails of the Mud. preset. 7eildinge, While a very stroag corps frem the regular
army geards the buildiags from the oetside. There are in addition, machine-
gua poets all around. Regular military patrels keep a strong watch over all
the streets areand the pr!soa buillenge ase well as all the reads leading to
and, from the tole of Aiud.
14. "At the beginning of laet menth, nearly all of the 000 common criminals kept
at Mud were transfereed to the peieox of Margineni se that they could be
put to week at the leeal maeitiens faetery.
15. At the begimaing of last PetrearTe the prisons at Mud were equipped with
anti-aircraft 4he1tere and. other facilitiee. Twiae or three times a month
now, the prisoners have to take part in air-raid exeroiaee.
16. ."Prisoners are absolutely forbidden to receive visitors or to correspond
with members of their families. Only once, last Nevember, were they allowed
to write a few lines home and ask for overcoats. They have only a ten-minute
walk when that is allowed them. They are made to walk in their prison yard
In silence, th=t); hatis down, their had clasped behind them, forming a circle
WI.th eath man Tive metera away from the other."
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