CIA REPORTS ON THE EARLY YEARS OF COMMUNISM IN ROMANIA (1946-1949)
CIA REPORTS ON THE EARLY YEARS OF COMMUNISM IN ROMANIA (1946-1949)

Summary/Abstract: Abstract . An institution created with the main purpose ofensuring adequate knowledge, substantiated in an integrated manner, of thethreat the USSR represented both to the USA and to the free world ingeneral, the CIA carried out a sustained activity in this direction.After the Second World War, Romania came completely underSoviet influence and became a C ommunist country fully aligned with theMoscow command. Declassif ied CIA documents on the early period of theC ommunist system in Romania highlight, first and foremost, thesubjugation of this southeastern European country to the interests of theUSSR . Exploring this reality behind the Iron Curtain in the early years o fthe Cold War, the study presents various documents from the CIA archivesregarding Romania, on three main elements: political intelligence, economicintelligence and military intelligence.

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