EXPULSION OF WAR REFUGEES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000300620009-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 4, 1998
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: January 17, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTEVUGENC ICE PORT
COUNTRY Fortugal
.1f .l C1 E2.puleion of Wax l igeee
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DES`f. 19 February 1947
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SUPPLEMENT
to Bsortedly, +alaear hues given instructioaas to the effect that eteps must be
taken to find a solution to the refugee problem. by . January 1947, he had
ordered the PXDE (se=curity po3.1ce) to weed from their lists, in the course
of the next few months, as any persona as possible who are listed as
refugees. He arepor#sedly stated., however, that no refuges shoul ? be forced
to leave Portu l if the only co, ntr2r po which he could go is under
Biuseia.n domination. Those pereans who for h itar an reasons are
permitted to stay xst take Ap"residence forces o: osidee of Lisbon.
2~ Such sir stag cee t-~s a foreigner's having a Portuguese spouse or children
born In Portugal w wl no longer prevent e; pulsion. _Even a valid permit to
work in Portugal will not be suf.'tcient to keaT. from'aresidence Xorceef those
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refs es who are allowed to remain.
The proce?as of aexem?nati.on of the U at* sts had begun by 9 January, and many
re?-ugeee, mostly Jews, had received two weeks' notice to leave Portugal
*r tame the alternative of *4-asidenae forces in small towns In the northern
-tirt of the cowtry,
A:s of 17 January It as not known whether Germane in
Portugal would be classed as refugees under this new decision, and. if they
were so classified, whether they would have the, same liability to expulsion
as others; when que6tiooed about this matter, an official of the PX3)E said
that the ultimate desuision mst be made by the Ministry of 'oretgn Affairs,
but he expressed the opinion that the new order did not apply to Gei'mans.
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Auths DDA REG. 77/1763
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