RUMANIAN PUBLISHING HOUSES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001300180002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: May 27, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL IN-TF.LLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT,
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT Rumanian Publishing Houses
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 27 May 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.,
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. In mid-1951 the Party Cenral Committee ordered all publishing houses to
publish only "essential", i.e. political, works.
2a The following publishing houses commission writers to do works
a. Editura de Stat (State Publishing House). The managing editor is a
Hungarian named Aszodi.
ba Confederatia Generalia a Muncii (CG M - General Confederation of Labor)
Publishing House. The xnnaging editor is Corneliu Sabin (formerly Sabetay).
Editur* de Stat Pentru Literatura si Arta (ESPLA - State Publishing House
for Literature and Art). The managing editor is Lazarescu.
Before stabilisation, advances of about 20,000 lei monthly were paid to writers
working on commissions. Then advances were stopped, and since that time writers
have been in financial difficulties. Salaried employees of publishing houses,
such as translators, are being paid at the rate of one new lei for 200 to 400
old lei (instead of 20 old lei), and so their pay is now negligible.
All authors belong to a,special cooperative, located at 56 Strada Romana, where
they can buy clothing and scarce foodstuffs at favorable prices.
All vritings have to be censored twice before publication, first by the Central
Committee and then by the State Publishing House.. As a result it is sometimes
two years before a? book appears in prin..
The following personalities are knowns
Barbu Lazareanu.'head of the Rumanian Academy
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c?. Mihail Roller,, a historian working with the Central Committee,
d. Mihail Sadoveanu, President of the Peace Movement and Vice President of
the Council of Ministers.
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