ACTIVITIES OF HORIA SIMA IRON GUARD FACTION

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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 15, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Activities of iioria Sima
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In On the premises of the former Gerrian Academy. situated in the Largo
di Villa 1iassimo No. 2 in Rome, a group of political refugees from the
Iron Curtain countries are attempting to start a new 1uropeaanvent
along the lines already conceived by rvinston Churchill ? This is being
done under cover of a so-called Institute of Labor Studies directed by
Professor Pier Yausto .k altm bo, professor of history at the University of
Bari and director of the magazine main .- a and with the support of
Dr. Octavian Rosu, a Rumanian refugee.
2. Professor ialumbo during the Fascist era was an active staff member of the
Fascist daily, L'Impero; after the war he joined the United Europe movement
of Churchill. He is the responsible director of Bollettino .~uroeop which
is printed by an establishment also located in Largo i la"ssslmoa
Dr Octavian Rosu, who lives at Via Sardegna 42,: is the editor of
i3ollettino :luropeo, and head of the iioria Sima faction of the Iron Guard
izi to"ly. Rosu is also representative in Rome of the Dacia Corporation,
v ith offices at Via S. Uicolo da Tolentino 77.
4.,, Rosu some time ago set up a promotion committee for a European-Rumanian
ovcment and affiliated it with the so-called Italian 1dovement
for J. ropeaaapent
Unity, directed by Falunbo. Very soon, howeverB ion vs
of the Iron Guard, interested in building up in Rome a iioria Sim, Iron Guard
center, using the Cotmaittee as a cover.
A branch of the American sponsored Free Europe broadcasting system, promoted
by the saris group to wraith Palumbo and Rcou belong, will soon be initiated, rising
the Busto Arsizio short wave transmitter.
Another enterprise, soon to be started, is a political-journalistic agency
which will publish a bulletin of information for the Italian press in which
the social program and the system of government of the countries beyond the
Iron Curtain will be attacked.
7 Lately many members of the Boris Sima faction of the Iron Guard have
infiltrated into the United States and Canada for the express purpose of
setting the stage in those countries for the anti-Communist political
activities which the Iron Guard has used in the part, and which patriotic
exiles consider the cause of the present catastrophic situation in which
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Rumania finds herself today
8, ilie real end principal purpose of this aw rk, according to those who maintain
contact in Italy and abroad with the Iron ward, is that of collecting money
in the United States for the support of Iron Guard centers in Europe. In fact
it is known that the real headquarters of the Iron Gu.ard,with Boris Sima at
its head, is at present in Salzburg, Austria, assisting Siraa there is a certain
.iircea Dimitriu who coordinates the v rk of the iron Guard in austria, Italy?
France, and Spain, But it suns that Uiriitriu concentrates more on the internal
organization of the Iron ward than on its international political pro-gran..
An far as the latter program is concerned, it has been placed by Salzburg in
the hands of Octavian hosua. The latter, for purposes of cover, operates behind
the facade of a Rumanian association sponsoring the United a;urope ie-ovement and
of the pseudo-business firm called Dacia.. In these enterprises, he is aided by
the wealthy Rumanian businessman,, Constantin Liragan who is the financial patrons
and the Italian professor, Vier 1n'austo a'alunbo, who is the moral patron.
9,. it is possible that hosu has contacts with Freemasonry. Rosu also is charged
?;ith strengthening ties of friendship with the i'ascista in Italy as well as with
those of Lastern Lurope.
lair, The center for the diffusion of Iron Guard propaganda in iurope isi4iadrid, where
a clique of the iron Guard has charge of the Rumanian section of the Spanish
ivational Radio, The leaders of this propaganda campaign are Uheorghe Uscatoscu
and jiurel Rautu.
It is particularly interesting to note that Radio 2adrid is one of the
broadcasting stations heard best in Rumania. broadcasts in the Run anian
language go out every day at 6?45 p.m., and into each broadcast there is
coven propaganda for the Iron Guards This propaganda is ,justified by the
affirmation that only thus can the Iron Guard bring it to the attention
of the patriots who today are suffering from the results of the bad goverr?ment
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12. corking with the Iron Guard in acrid is the able Rwaa.iian u'asi.i lasinschi,
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ex-minister of Labor of the Antonescu--Iron Guard Government
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