EMERGENCY BRIEF (SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00418R006900500002-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 18, 2008
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 10, 1956
• Content Type: REPORT

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This is UNEVALUATED Information)
tGENCY BRIEF
DLte.,: 10 October 19156
COUNTRY: Rumania
SUBJECT: Emergency Brie
DATE OF INFO:
a. I la number of antennas arranged in an elliptical form in an
open field which was about 100X100 meters in size and was located about halfway
between Beicau and Roman on the lefthand side of the railroad line going from Bacau
to Roman. the installation was a powerful radio jamming station.
b.
February .
II. Civilian Section
a population census was being taken throughout Rumania in
ter with the Security Police.
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Only radio amateurs had to regis- 25X1
2. There had been n noticeable recent sudden increases in arrests by Security
Police, There were no new restrictions on travel, nor 25X1
were there any significant increases in document checks or impositions of curfews.
3. There 11 no shortage of any goods in Rumania. On the contrary, goods were
accumula ing in shops because people did not have enough money to buy them.
The only items sold against coupons in Bucharest were black bread and sugar.
Black bread was sold for four lei a kilo against coupons in order to prevent
Npeasanti and othe citizens from outside communities from buying the bread and
thus cam ing a shortage for inhabitants of the city. White bread could be
bo ly at 4.60 lei per kilo. Sugar was the only rationed item. It cost
nine kilogram and the allowance was one-half a kilogram per person per
month. s had not been increased, while prices had slightly risen.
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4. I no.halts in large construction projects or construction of de-
fense projects.
6.
telephone conversations in Rumania. People were careful of what they said over
the telephone.
there might have been censorship of
participated in any air raid alerts. The organization AVSAP, to which only
members of the CP belon ed, carried out instruction in shooting, parachuting,
etc., in enterprises. . All employed
persons had to subject themselves to inoculation against TB once a year and
against typhoid fever every three years. Inoculation against typhoid fever was
done in series, three shots the first year; two the second year; and one
inoculation the third year.,.
no information about air raid shelters recently built, and had not
no information on recruiting activity for special duty in the
security forces.
8. There had been no restrictions on weather broadcasts. The broad
twice a day, at noon and at 2230 hours.
casts
were given
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9. Not since 1947
-48 had there b
ee
n any forced movement of civilian
s
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10. a. All Sovrom
establishe
companies had
d through a sec
be
re
en dissolved except Quartit Sovro
t decree in 1949 for the exploita
m whic
tion o
h was
f pech-
blende (pi
tchblende) ores
a
t Carasova, (15 kilometers from R
esita)
,
Baita, and the Bihor region. colleagues who
worked in the Resita Siderurgical Enterprise that travel from Resita to
Carasova was prohibited. The Carasova uranium ore mines employed
15,000 persons, all of whom were political prisoners. The organization
and management of the mines were composed of Soviet civilian personnel,
while the actual work and guarding of the region was done by Rumanians.
the Soviet soldiers belonged to a motorized unit or tank unit because the
soldiers had tank insignia on their epaulets.
b. There was a Soviet Military Command in the Galati shipyard.
no smuggling o
of Soviet dependents.
tube operations of Communist leaders.
f atomic devices.
14. Neither advanced medical preparations nor mass immunizations had come
no increase in propaganda directed toward
increasing nationalistic sen ments, etc., in Rumania.
III. Intelligence Activities
no information concerning intelligence activities directed against the
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