1. EVACUATION OF YUGOSLAV-RUMANIAN BORDER AREA 2. LOCATION OF AIRCRAFT SEARCHLIGHTS 3. AMMUNITION DUMP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009200040010-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 10, 2006
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: November 2, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION (,o,it;;,T 25X1 A
CENTRALINT
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COUNTRY Rumania
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SUBJECT 1. Evacuation of Yugoslav-ltumanian Border
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3. Ammunition Dump
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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1. Not all persons residing in the regions near the Yugoslav-Rumanian border
were evacuated. the evacuation order was aimed
primarily at the remova ro ssensit ve areas of "unreliable" foreign
elements.
2. Evacuees were taken to the Baragan?Ialomita sector where they were
compelled to live in the fields or wooden shacks with only the poorest
of facilities... Evacuation of this border area was completed about
25 July 1951.
Crops ineracuated areas were being harvested by Rumanian soldiers who
now lived in the homes of the evacuees,
4o About nine kilometers outside Bucharest, to the left of the main road
leading to Ploesti, there was a group of about 40 searchlights used for
spotting aircraft. Another group of 25 to 30 searchlights was located
in the Cernica forest, near a monaster_, off the Bucharest-Olt nita
road. The diameter of these searchlights was 1.25 to 1.50 meters,
there was an important ammunition dump at Budesti,
about 30 kilometers outside bucharest on the 0 ltenita Road.
6. near Budesti,l
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daily between three and four trains heading for Budesti.
Each train consisted of four or five loaded cars and one empty car,
an equal number of trains left Budesti returning
in the opposite direction.
7n numerous concentra-
tion camps were being established throughout Rumania for foreign nationals
and "untrustworthytl numanians.
two jet aircraft flying over Bucharest daily,
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