PRESENT SITUATION OF IULIU MANIU, LEADER OF THE NATIONAL PEASANT PARTY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004600040011-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 30, 2000
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: March 29, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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DATE DISTR. 29 MAR 50
SUBJECT Present Situation of Iuliu T.tsniu, Loader
of the I.ational Peasant Party
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Iuliu T;faniu,,, former leader of the Rumanian National Peasant Party, is at
present in the Galati Penitentiary (Peniteniriarul Galati), location marked
by No, 7 on the enclosed sketch of the town of Galati., This sketch is not
drawn to scale. '
who heA been in this prison fray
guards talk of ]Mania's presence.
fiancee, had been in the pr is ca for
a short '.imo in the late spring and early summer of 1949, and she stated
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upon her release that one day one of the prison charwomen gave her a bundle
of laundry to wash and said that it was T.'aniu 9 s. She further remarked that
'Maniu'a initials appeared on the shirts. A third source said that he knew
o .e of the guards of the prison who had mentioned :.;aniu' a presence therein
All three sources repeated that it was a matter of carrion knowledge and
frequent conversation that aniu was alive and in the Galati Penitentiary.
?.;, ITone could say that they had spoken with anyone who had actually seen T.'aniua
4. It was said that T aniu was guarded in solitary confinement, that he was more
or less confortably installed, that he had books to read, and that he was
ail r coved to walk almig in the prison yard at night under surveillance.
r. There is no talk of Ion T.'ihalache or any of the others who were sentenced
with ?'r .iu, and conclusion of the three sources was that these others were
interned elsewhere o
C ,. Other localities of interest in Galati are noted on attached sketch.
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CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with t
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to the . ...
Director of Central Inte G
Archivist of the United States.
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