REPORT OF MASS ARRESTS AND DEPORTATIONS IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA, RUMANIA, AND LATVIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700100433-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 433
• Publication Date: February 5, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia; Rumania; USSR
SUBJECT Political
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Algiers
DATE
PUBLISHED 18 Nov 1952
LANGUAGE French
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REPORT
CD N0.
DATE OF
DATE DIST. S' X1953
N0. OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT N0.
?HIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
REPORT 05 MAS3 ARRESTS AND DEPORTATIONS
iR CZEC$OSIAVAKIA RUM4NIA ~ LATVIA
~omment: The folloxing iv c. summation of a =sport on mass arrests
snd deportations in Czechoslovakia, Rumania, and Latvia was submltted~to
the Algiers conservative pro-West daily newspaper Le Journal d'A18er
by its Paris office. The report ie allegedly bases on eyewitness
accounta.7
Accordi*i~.to testimony given~y persons who fled into Austria from Czech-
osl8'Dakta and Rumania, portations are continuirs on a vast scale is those two
countries. Approximately 50,000 persons have been deported from Prague and
Bratislava over a o'-week period. Thes belonged, for the most part, to the
industrial and commercial classes, but included also some lawyers, newspapermen,
and pensioners. About 12,000 families have bean forcibly evacuated from Prague
alone. Meanwhile, 60,000 families under suspicion ~f ai;ti-Commurist activitiea~
have been expelled from Karlsbad. Their living quarters have b:eL occupied by
local Communist Party members.
A Rumanian doctor, who is now is Vienna, recently stated that numerous
arrests had been made ir, Rumania during the week preceding the so-called
anniversary of the liberaticn ~ovember~" Accordi,-ig to this doctor, it Sad been
thought at first that the arrested persons would be detained only for the period
of the anniversary festivities, but instead they have not yet been released. He
estimated their number at between 5,000 and 6,000. According to him,, most of
these persona are former officers or relatives of perso.~s wbo played an active
role is Rumanian public life before the establishment of the present regime. Trs
general beliefs the doctor added, was that these arrests had been made solely
to deprive Che arrested Ir_rsons of their living quarters and personal property.
$e also reported that ai) official announcement had beer. made to the effect that
some 450 persons had bean arrested in Stalin alone, and added that he hsd heard
of persons being deported from Cluj.
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Meanwhile, in Latvia, about 4,000 families on collective farms of
Daugavpilskays Oblast are threatened with deportation to Russia proper. They
are accused of having exploited the vorkera" prior to Latvia's incorporation
into the Soviet Union.
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