ANTI-RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES IN RUMANIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009200100010-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2012
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: November 15, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. At the beginning of June :951, six or .,leven boys between the ages of eight
and nineteen broke into seven churches in Bucharest. One of the churches
was the Greek Orthodox caurch Saint rloftherios, ir which the images were
destroyed, the vestments torn, and the baptismal font desecraed,
It is generally believed in Bucharest -,hat thess delinquents acted on
Commnist instructions,
3, The boys were later arrested and detained at ilitia head,luar7,ern at
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