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S A T E L L I T E A C T I V I T I E S

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No 6

R O U MAN I A

Satellite Activities in France (l945-l95Q)

ROUMANIA

INTRODUCTION

l. This pre sent ntudy complctes the series devoted to the

activities in France of the diplomatic missions of the satellite stntes;

and i t rnay thus be of interest to abserve at the outset hov.- fnr those

of the Rournanian Legation have conformed to what has been found to be

the general pattern.

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) 2. Three points should be noted. First, owing to the refusol

of the Western Pm-;ers to recognisu the nev-; Roumanian regime until it

had been "liberalised", an interval of the better part of a year

occurred betvwen the Liberation and the re-opening of the Legation,

which last did not take place until April 1946. Secondly, although

the assurances givE..n to the Western Powers were never honaured, the

Rournanian GovernmBnt was at first careful to staff the Legation with

men of whom the great rnajority were nat Communists. Thus the first

Minister was a left-wing intellectual, and almast all his subordinates

were either aareer diplornn.ts or p6rsons who, as academies or journalists,

had some sort of position in their ovm country. In accordance with the

usual practice, hovvever, trlG Minist

thtt Rownani an Lega.tior- the pr cportim . .:Jf '0 hose who br;c ::trn n on-

r e turner s is extr ernel y high) and the i c s ucce ssors ar e u.rlimovm mer •..

probabl y wor king U."ldP.r narnes which ar e not thci:r. ovm ·- whorn the new

order has br ought t o t he surfac e ~ but a bout Vihorn i t i s extremely

d ifficult t o obta in par ticular s . ThirdlY: Roumania :. like all t he

ot her sat ellites s possesses t wo i ntel l i geno e ser v ice s epur a ting

abr oad, whi ch correspond to t he MGB nnd GRU in Russ i a. The f i r s t i s

prirnar i ly c oncorned v;ith counter -espi mw.ge, and in tbc cast: of o.ll

the sat e llite mis sions i n Pari s ha s b3en found 'c o be directed hy a

C o~msellor or Secre t ary; whilG the sec mld i s r esponsible f or offens i ve

espi onage, c onduc t ed either by the Militar y Attuché or by someone i n

his off i ce . T ~er t; 1 hoY;ever. , t hc Rournani an Le ga tj on iY' Par i s appears

~; o diverge f r om t he norrns for alt hough the c ount er··es pi onage ser vice

func'L i ons in the us ua l marmer, ther e has heen n o Milüary f~otktché or

Mi litar y Att ac hé ' s Off i ce ; and i n the only case cf cspi onage r eport ed,

t he agent appear s t o have been r.un by the "respon sable " of the

Roumani an Communi s t Party ·- himself an of f i c er of the St a t e Security

Ser v ice, which i s or d inarily c oncern ed wHh the s upervi s :i.on of the

Col ony$ and with the gr oupi ng of it s r.1ernber s int o or·ganisa'Gions of

the appr·oved s ovie t type.

). In 1940 General ANTONESCU appoi nt ed a s Rounnni m1 r epre s ent-

ntive in Paris Constantin Din~ ~IOTT , a c nreer diplornat and the s on

of a f ar mer Court Charnberlain; o.nd on the Germnn oc c:upation of FrMce ,

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he bccame Hini sJC(; C' to '~he V'ch· y. Gov .. r·nn·,,"n ·: · . ' '- R · ,_ k .... - _ v .. ~.en owno.n~a or o e

off r t.>la tions wit h Germany, both he and hi s st o.f'f '\i~.;re pl ac ed

on d i :::>ponibilité , thougb they Yic.r"' ccllov;c.J to J.· unl."tin in Fr o.r.ce unt:i. l

c ommunict:ttions Ylith Buc ho.rE.;st hnd been re-u s t c..blished. Aft er t hc

Liber ntion, NI CUIESCU-BUZESTI o1' the RoumaniD.n Fore i gn Off ice

a rranged tha t Roumo.nian inter e sts s hould be repr esented by t he

Cons ul-General in Pnris, I GIROSEANU . I mmedin:ce ly t:tf t er t ne c oup -

d'eta t of March 6th, 1945~ which brought the GROZA Government int o

povver, NI CUIESCU- BUZESTI bec arm::; Fore ign Minister and promo t 6d

IGIROSEANU to be r epresentan t politique . \\ hEm VISOIANU bec ame

For eign lvii n i ster, I GIROSEANU was t ransferred to Spain, but as h&

fniled t o obt nin an ngrèrnen t , he even tually r c tvrlied t o Roumania .

He was s ucceeded in Po.ris by •Al 0xandre BI ANU, f or merly Commer c ial

Secn :. t ary in London , though he wt:ts not aoc or ded d i pl omatic rank, and

was simply acting as a s t op-gap until a r epr e sent a tive was appointed,

vihen Ano. PAUKER v i s ited Po.r· is a t t he end of 1945 or early in 1946 . '

BIANU a.tt ernpted t o · elirob on t o the Communis·{; bnnd -wnggon , with t ht::

r e sult that he wo.s dropped by a ll his old f~iends wit hout succeedi ng

in ga ining the c onfidence of the nuw rulers ~ Friendloss Md in

gr eat finMcia l difficulties , he eventually solved his pr oblem by

c ommitting suic i de .

In Dece mber 191:-5, in pursuMce of decis i ons t aken a ·i; t he

Moscow Conference , an int t;rna tional cammission visited Buchar'e st o.nd

insisted that the basis of the GRO~\ Governmens s hould be broaden ed

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by t he inclus i on of nc:.nbcr s of o'cher ]_e::'t ·-d, ond on lepril 13th tho first

th Of Simon ·~TOILOV. a dis-1Iinisto:- was appoint0d in e person _ ,

tinguished DD.theroticinn ond forr.1er ReetoT of BuohD.rest Univorsity,

,·;ho pocs~;;ssed solid links y;ith Fnwch 3cümt ifi....: c ircles~ thou gl-!

he y;ould sce1:1 t o have been ignornnt of ond ignored by all others.

· · "1 t '· day saird;" If he was a Communist a t nll , he wn;;; ·c ou mucn n a o:;er- " ~ -·

to inspirc ony donfidence in the. PD.rty nnd, in accordn:.nce with the

usual procedure 1

t\;o Communists weru nppo~.~tûd t o keep iün 1mdor·

s upE.>rvis i an. rhesl: wc-re the 2nd Counse;il or ~ I on l}vlÖRUZI nrJ.d .• i •.1 .:J.

l esser de grot;, the Pn:.ss Couns0ll or ; H:iillnj_]_ NICULCbL The f cr Glül'

d f orce .. of cho.,..act

was arre s t ed. up~n ar rival on account of certa in financial deals in

which he had been engaged in F'r ance. He thon at temptod to l eave

the country clandestinely , but was caught and is 119'1\' serving a five-

year prison sen t ence. Finall y 1 i n November 1947 NECULCEA was pcsted

t e, The Hague as Chargé, wher e he r ema ined until May 1 91~9, whun he

was r eaalled and d i smissed f r om the Fora i gn Service en the gr o'..mds

t hat hi s "politicnl outlook " r ender ed him unsuitable. He is under -

s tood t o have r 0turnad to the minor pest he had previously held in

t he University . His succe ssar was Tudor ANDREESCU (name false n.nd

probn.bly LAUSE8RG), who arrived in Paris in October 1947, but in

November was transferred to Brussels a s Chargè, though as this was

understood te be a stop-gap appointment ~ he r t::ma ined a member cf the

Lega.tion stafi' , to v;hich he returned in 1949 to take up his original

post. He was a Communist, but had studied in France before the war

and wa s a.""!Xious to live outside Roumanil'l..

In October 194 7 Ana PAUKER bec o.rne Fore ign Minister. She

il!lliledia.tely purged her department of all non-Gommunists, and although

such merobers of the staffs of Fo:r.eign Missions were allowed fçr the

time being to remain at their posts~ thex·e vms henceforth n.n in-

creasing tendency to rtplo.ce them by Party members. At the end of

Dec ember, King 1v1ichael was forced to abdicate, and in consequence

GE CBGESCU, a care er diplomo.t, resigned. BU.tViBESTI followed his

e xample, a s did also their former collea.gue, SOLAKOLOU, who eventually

left for Venezuela, where he is now in business .

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8. By April 1948 the staf f had beo0me : -

Minister Simon STO:C-GV ·

l s t Counsellor Ion MORUZI '

?nd Counsellor Nicolai Petr e SUCI U

Pres s Attachè Nikdai i·tlARINESCU

Ec onomie Counsellor Vic t or I ONESCU

Cultural Attache Theodosia GRAVER

Honorary Legal Adviser J ac ob ROSENTHAL

9. Although still n ominally Minister , STOILOV had been

absent from his post over long periods, and in May 1948 he was

recalled, MORUZI thereafter acting as Chargè. Of the new merobers

of the staff, SUCIU was by far the most important. A Roumanian

Jew, he had first come toFrance in 1937. During the Ocoupation he

had been a member of a Communist group :in Paris, and at the Liberation

he vms serving with the Communist-controlled FTP. At the end of the

year he returned to Roumania, but in about October 1947, or possibly

earlier, he was attached to the Legation, reportedly to take charge

of ita Communist oell, and was given a cover post in the since-

abolished Roumanian Tourist Agency, which enabled him to travel con-

tinually, as he is reported to have done. He did not obtain diplo-

matic status until Bill~RESTI resigned in January 1948, when he

succeeded him with the rank of ~1d Counsellor. He remainéd in Paris

until the end of the following July, when the French authorities

requested his withdrawal, an action which ma:y be connected with a

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r"p:Jrt recE iw,d at oui; thn'~ [;ine th,.tt lw wo.s nt·cer.1p',; ing to ponetrat e

the LEDUC fnctory at Toulouse, v;hich v;ns mak~.n2; a special type of

jet-propelled engim. In any case , h0 was undoubtedly on illtelli ·-

gence off icer, ond all sourees agree thnt he was an abl er LlDll than

MORUZI and more dangerous.

10. Of the newcomers, Ml'.RINESCU was an elect r ician, who had lived

in Fra."lce for the last twenty yew:s. He had en;rly war.. the r eputation

of bei ng a Com11uni s t militant, and hRd bel onged durin;?; t :1e Occupnt i on

t o tr"e Roumn.ni an Nntionnl Fr ont(Fr ont Nat i onnl Roumni n :::: FNR) . He

was or i ginally LNDREESCU' s assi st ant , and t ook his pJ.ace wben the

l at ter was t empor arily pos ted t o Brussel s. IONESCU, who succe0ded

TOROSIAN as Econor:ri.c Counsellor in the spring of 19483 had, like

l~JtiNESCU, spent ~he war years in France and had been a merober

of the FNR . He had .j oined the Cominunist Party in 1944-45 · It

seems that by the s ummer of 1948 he had incurred the suspicions

of t he authorities, ond there is a re;port that when he went back

t o Buoharest on a r outine visit in August, his name w~s pl aced

on a black-list of persons who were not t o be allowed to enter

the c ountry. No attmrrpt, hovmver, seems t o ho.ve been rande to

hinder him fr om r 6turning to his post, but, on October l5th, his

f l at wo.s r a ided by the police and he was o.rres'Ged and de~or ·lied.

The charges brought aga ins t hirn are unknav,n, but it is ~ore probable

thnt he had been used t o transnit funds fron RoUI:lDl1.ia to finance

Communist activities in France than tho.t he had been an intelligence

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agent. Theodosia GRAVER (real name IOACHINESCU), alsc a Communist,

was at least cannected with intelligence work, and although described

as Cclturnl Attachè, she is understood to have replaced NECULCEA.

She was r eaalled in the summer of 1948, nnd is believed to be employed

as a schools' inspector. ROSENTHAL, an international l awyer of dis-

tinction, had acted before the wur as l awyer to a Pnris bank. At the

time ~f the Peace Conference he hnd rendered certnin services to the

Government, and had prepnred it s case i n conneetion with the release

of the so-called CRETZI ANU fund. This was a sum, totalling six •

million Swiss francs, which the then Foreign Minister . , VISOIANU, had t aken from the secret funds at hi s disposal and sent to CRETZI .ANU, the

Roumani an Minister i n Ankara, in l at e 1944 or eur l y 1945, hi s intention

be ing that it should f orm a r oser ve in t he event of t he Co~~unis t s

ge tting c ontr ol of the c ountry and the King being obliged t o l enve.

One half was placed in a Swi s s bank, ~d the other half in Sweden .

When the Communis t or ~ear -Communist FRAN~\.'30VICI became Minister in

Berne he got wind of this deposit , and reques t ed that it be handed

over . The Swiss Government r efused t o do this, and bl ocked the

acc ount pending the decision of the Berne courts in an action which

the Rournanian Government n mv brought ngainst VISOIJ\NU and CRETZIJ\NU

vmo were by this time safe in Vi~shington . The c ase dragged on f or '

t wo yeurs when judg~ment was given agninst the Government . The

acc ount, hov;~ver, has not ~et been unblocked , though this is doubtless

only a matter of time . Why ROSENT~\1, who is not a Communist , should

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h~ve l ent hinself t o thi s business i s unkn own. But hi s post as

Lego.l J,dvi sE:r w~s o. pur e:ly nomino.l one ~ nnd wo.s given him, o.t his

t Of the. d l.'plorn,ro.tic pr i vil ege it c o.rried. r e quest, s ol ely on acc oun "~

n. In Februo.ry 194 9 the staff consisted of:-

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l st Couns ellor (with r ank of Minister Pl enipot entio.ry, 2nd Clo.ss )

l s t Secre t o.ry

Press Counsellor

Ec onomie Counsellor

Cultur.o.l Attaché

Mihail DRAGOMIRESCU

Tro.ian MICU

Tudor .ANDREESCU

Sorin FIRU

l~drei QUEDROS @ Virgil SOLOlVIONIDES

12. Of the ab ove> DRAGOMIRESCU owed his appointment t o poli tioal

r eas ons. Up t o 1944 he had held a very nünor post as a . teo.cher in an

industrio.l school, but by 1945, however, he had beoome Secretary-

General of the "Po.triots Uni~11 , vvhich later changed its name to the

11Na tional Popular Po.rty 11 o.nd amo.lgamated with the Communist Party in

1948. From 1946 he r epre sented his party in the Chamter of Deputies,

and it was his vitriolic attack on TATlRESCU, d0ubtless inspired by

the Communists, that led to the latter's resignation on November Cth,

1947. He wa s transferred from Paris toR ome in March 1949, and was

r eaalled in mid-1950. On his refusal t o r ê turn, he was abducted und ·

conveyed by aer oplane t o Roumania, where he ho.s since disappeared.

His success ar in Po.ris was EugGn CHARAP, who was appointed Cho.rgé

with effect fr om June 29th, 1949. MICU had arrived in November 1948

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t o rcpl o.ce lv108.UZI, .. r;hosG dc:;p:1rturE: for R,1ur.nnin hn.t1 on t icipo.t ed by

t vv-enty- four hour s a demnnd by the Quo.y d 1 Orsay for hi s withdr mml.

He was himself r ea alled in Augus t 1950, nnd r epl o.c ed by Ivf.ATEI

(or 1L'\.THEI). liNDREESCU , o.ft er serving f or a f uw months o.s Charge

in Brussels , had been r eaalled t o Buchar est , but wo.s r epost ed t o

Paris earl y in 1949 , and resumed his original post a s Press Counsellor.

In the foll owi ng May he was sent to The Hague as Charge vice NECULCEA,

but in mi d -August he was replaced without warning. He refused to

r eturn and, to avoid scandal , was gi ven indefini te l eave. He has

recentl y been accorded asylurn by the Dutc h Government . On his de part -

ure for The Hague, MARINESCU, y;ho had been acting in his absenée, was

promoted Pre ss Counsellor . FIRU was the Legat ion 1 s contac t wi t h

Roumanians in Par is (mostly Jews) connected wi th trade betvveen Eas t ern

and Western Europe, and was extremely activa in purchasing r aw mat erial

on government account . When in Germany in SE> pte mber 1950 he disappear ed .

Official explanations are divergent. In Paris it has been given out

tha t he had been reaalled pending his transfer to Italy, and that he was

now in Buoharest "seriously ill"; whereas the Legation in Berne declared

tha t he was "on leave". It seems probable that he has defected.

QUEDROS, a Roumanian of Greco-Jewish origin whose real name is Virgil

SOLOMONIDES, replaced Mme. Theodosia GRAUER in the summer of 1948. He

runs the Legation 1 s propaganda bureau at 61 rue Geoffroy Marie, 9me,

and is s o. id to report on Roumanian stud6nts in Franc6, and on the mora l e

of students in general.

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u. At t hr~ pr esani tim(j the s t :1.:•.'f of' t ho Logo. t 1 on, nov;· apparently much r 0duc ed , con s i s t s of : ···

Char ge ( wi th t he :co.nk of' lst C01.msellor)

lst Sbc:L·e t ary

Pre ss Couns el l or

Cultural At t aché

Legal Adv i ser

E ugen CHJ.RAP

1IATEJ ( 01' MATHEI )

Nikol a i iviliR&..:::scu

Andre i QU}~OS @ Virgil :;:lOLOMONIDES .

Al exand.re MJRE

(In Nove mber 1949 it was under s tood tha t n c ertnin Septimus ISACU had been appointed lst Counsellor, but his arrival h~s not ye t been reported.)

It is believed tha t CIYiliAP i s about to .be withdravw!, and

tha t his probable succc-:; ssor will be Tudor Mf-I.NEA , heo.d. of the Cadre

Sectien of the Milüs try of Heavy Industry in Buchar est. MATEir who

r eplaced MICU, is st E1.t ed to bear a s trong r e s emblanco to a farmer

gendarmerie officer, Capta in PETRUC, the brother of the present

Pï:efect of Police in Buoharest" To the abovo should be added Ion

VISALOM, who had beco!Il6 Consul by 1 950, thou.gh· he ho.d. joi."led the

Legation in 194 7 a s Head of Cho.ncery. He was c ertainly an intelligence

a gent, ha ving previously been a v;ireless opera tor at Teheran and Buda-

pest and., when in Paris, it was an open secret tho.t he kept a clandes-

tine wirel ess s et in his bed.room. He went on l eo.ve to Buoharest in

August, and as he wo.s still absent at the end of October, he may not

b e r e turning. His work has been t aken over by his farmer assistant

:Mme . Marthe LEVENSOHN. MJRE is aotually Le gal I'.dviser t o the Cons'.ll.o.te,

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but nl so net s in thi3 c apacity for t hA Legati on.

15. Int6 ll:i.gence Ac;tivitie s

Rour.n nin p ossbsse s thrue Intelligonce SerV'ioos (i) The Special

Sarvice of I nforoo.ti on (Serviciul Special Infor!lk'ltii = SSI ),

( ii) the Sccuri ty Ser vice, b 1mvn o.s the Sigurru1ta Generalo. o.nd s i nce

mid-1 948 ns t he Securito.~ea and (ii i) the 2nd Scati on of Infor~~ti on

(8ectiune Doua Infor mo.tii) of the Gener al St a ff , whic h i s respons ible

f or militar y int elligen~e.

16 . The SSI i s primarily r e s pc>nsiblo f or f' or e i gn inte lligence.

The Securito.t ea h~s the n orwnl ~unctions of a st a te s ecucity service

o.nd oper a t os within the c o,mtry. !~ r eport of enrly 1949 on o. r e -

or gani so.tion which had taken plnc 6 ubout tha~ tirae did indeed deelare

tha t it ho.d o. fore ign Sub-Directorate, of which no det ails y,eregiven;

but there is no firra evidence tha t it rnnintains repre s enta tives

abroad, though if a lcaknge were to occur in a f oreign mission, it

would doubtless send one of its officials to investigate it. The

Mili to.ry Intelligence Service calls for no oomment. It is usunlly

directed ,abroo.d frot:1 the office of the local Military .Attaché, and

as this post does not exist in Po.rL:;, t he Service is ei ther not

represented in l

l7. ;.11 s 0urc~s o.;:sr ce tho.t when STOILOV wo.s appoi nted Mi nister in 1946, MORUZI becnme the SSI represent at i ve, t hough he nay have

been obliged t o defer to SUCIU, ,-;ho was at l east on t he so.me l evel

as hi mself, nnd o. r epor t of Januo.ry 1948 declo.red tho.t t he two r o.n

t he ir agent s i n c or:rrnon. When MORUZI wo.s r tJc[l.ll ed i n Novr;,nber 1948,

hi s post as SSI r epresont ative was t o.ken over by his successar rrrcu,

n.nd i s nov; pres'llLJD.bly hel d by W,TEI , who o.rrived in Paris at t he

9 0 "TCU ' 1 t ',·rrcu was also beginning of October 1 5 as ivLL s r o;ap aco.n • 1'

r esponsib]"e f or th~ internal security of the Le~ation, in which he

has been r eplo.ced by the J.cting-Consul Mrae. Mart he LEVENSOHN • There

is, h~·ever, some r eas on t o believe that he wo.s not o.n active intelli-

gence offic er , o.nd that he l o.rgely confined himself to providing money

and c ow~unic o.tions f acilities for the illegal SSI representntive, con-

sistently reported t o have been the Roumo.nian physician and radiologist,

Dr. Jmdrè HERSCOVITZ, one of the QanY t o be _arrested and deported when

the French authorities t ook action against suspect membars of the

Roumanian Col ony in July-August 1948.

18. The present Communist Party r epresentntive is IvL'JHNESCU.

It is very probable that SUCIU h[l.d earlier filled this post, which

would be in no way inconsist ""nt with his relations with MORUZI, as

the SSI is closely linked t o the Conrrnunist Party. Of the organisation

of that Party in France no details artJ o.vailable. J:..s far o.s · is knovm,

it has never been declared illegal, but i t is extremely probable that,

as with the Polish Corru:~unists in France, "language groups" for

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Roumo.nian Comrnunists, oth6:c tho.n offic i als, have been formed wi thin

the PCF; and that these gr oups rçceive instructi cms as t o the part

which their merobers are t o play in f anenting r evolutionary activity

through the Hain d 'Oeuvre Internationale (MOI), a small body v;hich

ac ts as a link betwr;;en the Central Conmittee of the PCF and the

various foreign Comnunist groups within the country.

19. The Rounnnio.n Colony

During t he wo.r, the Corrm1unist element in the Rourao.ni an

Colony s et up t he Front Nat ional Roumo.in (FNR), of whi ch, as we have

seen , W~BINESCU o.nd I O}ffiSCU were member s. There nl~o came i nt o

existence the Union de s Rournains en France (URF) , an organisnt i on

which the authorities appeo.r t o have r egar ded o.s innocuous as they

appr oveû it in July 1944.

20. Lfter the war, the FNR, t hen under the presidency of

either IONESCU or HERCOVITZ, t ook up its headquarters at 61 Geoffroy

Marie, 9me. ~ving , as is said, t o SUCIU's influence it amalgamated

with the URF on January 16th, 1948 and f ormed an or ganisation the

name of which is variously given as the Ass ocia tion des Rournains en

Franoe and the Association des Rournains Amis de la Fro.nce. This

later changed its title t o the lillUcale Culturelle des Rournains de

Puris et de lo. Region Parisienne, and in the spring 0f 1950 it changed

it again toLesAmis de l' J~t Roumain. UndtJr all these transformations

it has remained, however, thç pro-regime organ of the Colony, its

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r e-erno:,g~Sn~f; '..cnè.Hr. dif:f'er e:r ~ l1Drnes being o. f o.miliat' feature llf

Comrr:unist-·inapir-ed grouns v;ilh:h are :f'earful of suppression. lts

headquarters are at 10 :r.ue c'.e Lancry, lOmE., and its ?resident is

a Roumo.nian Jew, Dr. JESOVER, who f:r.onts fo:r. MARINESCU~ and is

assisted by Mme. Ale:x:o.ndrine LAVRTI.LIER, o. Roumanian mo.rr:i.ed to

a French subjeot, o.nd by a Roumanian engineer, Georges BOC. All

the above are Communists, and are behind the various pro-regime

subsidiary organisations, the other memhors of their committees

being generally French nc.t i ono.ls of o. c erto.in pr~minence, selected

with a view to giving the orgo.nisc.tion in question a non-political

appearance.

21. These subsidio.ry org~nisntions include (i) the Union des

Fernmes Roumo.ines en J!'ro.:J.ce, of whic b. the P:r.e sident is Mme. Marior..ne

CANTAcuzrno, the wif e of a RoulT'.nnian doct or and herself a convineed

Communist, which wn.s recently r e ported to be jnactive for fe ar of

being declared illegal. (ii) The Assoc i a tion des .Ancièns Combattants

Volontaires e t Rèsistants, (iii) The Ass?ciation France-Roumanio.,

which issues an illustrated mo.gazine, formerly called 11Paris-

Bucharest", purporting to be issued from 8 rue de la Serpente, 6me,

but possibl y printed in Roumanio., and (iv) The Association 11Lamartine 11

d es Etud.iants Rournains en France, which is virtually moribund ovdng to

l ack of members, None of the above has any importance, and :i.ndeed a

souree reported in January 1950 that they had all been dissolved '

. I

though they still appeo.r to exist at least on po.per. The pro-regime

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organ, "La Roumanie Libre", ::md a bulletin, "Le s Informati®s

Roumains", continue . howover, to appear, but ihe first, and r;~ssibly

the second also, may be edited and printed in Bucharest,; and the

Legation be simply responsible for distribu.ting them,

22. .file Ü}positiml

The Roumanian ~pposition throughout the world eentres

rot:.nd a body lmovvn as the Roumanian National Council$ which was

formed in \vashington early in 194-9 eril. vvas sp-:msored by the American

Committee for Free E·.J.rope. lts President, until recently~ was

General N. RADESCU. It possesses an E:x:ecutivo Committee, \ïhich used

to meet alternately in Was hington and New York, consisting of promi -

n1:lnt exil es representing the ·union Democratique des Rournains Libres

(UDRL), originally formed by RADESCU to embrace all Roumanian

emi grès but which ear l y devoloped right··vving b:mdencies, and the

three main pre-war political part i es, viz. IVIANIU 1 s National Peasants 1

Party, BRATI1\NU 1 s National-Liberal Party and tho.t right-wing sectien

of the Social-Democra tic Party of which Iancu ZISSU is the l eader.

The present position~ rwwever ~ is tha t RADESCU and certain of his·

fellowers have S6ceded, o.nd tha t the Committee fór Free Europe has

not yet decided whe ther it will continue to pay its monthly subsid.y

to the memhers of the rump committee which is none the less de t .er mined

to carry on even without this assistance. It is understood that the

King has urged the ex~Fore ign Minister, VISOI,~, to assume the

cho.irmanship, but that he has not yet d'one so, o.t l east officio.lly.

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It sh~uld be btrne L1. rnind, howaver, tha t the l::lOI'e irr.portar..t

Roumanian ernigrés are now resident in the United States, and that

despite the claim of Professor I.N, HERESCU$ a Royalist, to be üs

represé~nt ntive in Paris, the Nationnl Cotmcil hns no organised.

representnti on there, though there nppears fortnightly n po.per,

"La Roumanie Libre", edited by BURILLEANUs which roughly expresser;

the views of its princ~pal groups.

•

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'dHO's W HO •

•

/ 1 ALEX!.NDRESCU ~ Hel ene

J ;( ALEXb.NDR.ESCU, Pierre

)( .:.NDREESCU, Tudor @ k\USBERG

1"-.-

•

i .H0 1 s \!HO

Roumanian. Born Calarasi, 6.4-.91. Artist n.nd y;ife of Pierre ALEXANDRESCU. Active Oorruntmist propagandist, former secretary of the Union des Femmes Rouma i nes, and also suspected of being used by the SSI as a cut-out. Arrested by the police on 31.7.4-8 and deportJd on the m.s. "Trn.nsyl vanï e " on 3.8.4-8. I s understood to have been found in posses~ion of a ~arge s um of money, 3,000 addresses and a number of letters from l~a PAUKER.

Roumani an. Bron Cernaut i, 20.7.80. Former Vice-President of the Front National Roumain in France, and Secre tary-Gbneral of the Fr anc o-Roumanian Chamber of Commerce. Arres t ed by the police on 31.7.4-8 and deported on thG m. s. "Transylv:J.nie " on 3.8.4-8 after having lived in France for 36 years. Is :J.lleged t o have been in direct contact with the Rownani:J.n Comnm1ist Party in Buc harest, :1nd t o h:1vc provided MORUZI witb political inf or mo. ti on.

Roum:J.ni:J.n Jew, Real namf< said to be klUSBERG. Born Panciu ~2~2.11. Commm1ist. Journalis t. Studied in France before the wm. and is stated t o hold a degree in law and economics. After the war was appointed ·a director of "Universul" when that paper v;n.s taken over by the Commm1ists, and c over ed the Peace Conference in Paris in 194-6 n.s its corres-pondent • In Oe t ober 194-7 vms post ed t o Pn.r is :J.s Pre.ss Counsellor ~ l\1ECULG'EA, but in the following November W:J.s transferred to Brussels a s Chn.rgè, though he still remnined a member of the Legation as his post a t Brussels v;as only a temporary one. He rer:J.ained - there during the V'iinter n.nd then went back t o Bucharest, being re-post ed t o Paris in January 194-9, when he resumod his original duties which had been dischnrged .in his absence by lVL'Jt ThlESCU. In Máy 194-9 he wn.s appointed Charge a t the Hague vice NECULCEJ., but in mid-1\.ugust he was replaced by Gheorghe LUKA, whose arrival was the first intim~tion he had received that he wn.s to be superseded. He refused to return to Buoharest and, to avoid a scandal, vw.s givèn indefinite leavo. .".ccording to 11La

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• :>NDREESCU, Tudor con td.

·~"\ B::..ICOil:.NU, ·Constant in

1 •

\ /'· BANU, Nime. Maria

~-/1 BHNU, Alexandre

Nati on Rom:nni e " of 15 .10. 50 the Dutch Gover n-I:Junt hn.s gr :J.nt Gd hi rJ t hG right of asylum. It i s pr obable th[1.t he had c. t lenst s or,1o c onneeti on v;ith the SSI during hi s stay in Paris. He i ght 5ft 6ins, thick-set, br oo.d square head d~rk brov,n c OElplexi on, very light br ov.n eye~ dis-t . . h ' J..ngu1s ecl n.ppcnr ance. His vvife is a Bessa-r abinn Yiho y;ns a t on e tir:J.e employed o.s n s~cret o.ry by a Buohar est bus ines s firm.

Roumnninn. Born Salticoni, ?.3.1C. 20, tho s on of .-:t n ; tired c ol onel. ;.rtcr SC:; rving in th6 Lego.l S0ction of the Hinistry of the Interior

d . ' v;as nw2..r ecl n l nv; schol o.rship by the French

Govçrnment, nnd arrived in Fr[1.nce on 1.2.4-7. v•a s among the; Rour:~o.ni:J.ns arre stod by the police on 31.7.4-8 and depor t ecl on the o.s. "'l'r ansyl-v:J.nie" on 3.8.4-8. I s all eged t o have acte

I BIANU, Alt.;xo.ndre c ontd

'; BOC, G€orges

X' BOTA, Ion

. ~ 'J I BTJ.MEESTI , Geor ghe V i ct ar

0.v.. J BURILLEANU, Aristide

• 1 CANT!.CUZINO, Marianne

/ CW..R!.P, Eugen

0 · / CIORlJThSCU, 1\.l exnndre

confidünct: of the n ew regime. He v;o.s eventunlly disuissed, nnd cor:u:'litted suicide in or nbout 1949.

Roumo.nio.n. Engineer. Reported in Oc tober 1 950 to be nn o.ctive Comrnunist who, wi th Dr. JESOVER o.nd Ivlrno, Alexnndrinu LA VRII.LIER, was u momber of the comni ttee of every orgnnisa tion of the pro-· r (.;g ioe St:ction of the Roumnni ruJ. Colony.

RoUEJ:miun, RLported in Mny 1949 to be employed nt thu Lt:gn·i:;ion ns u n0sscngc;r,

Roumo.ninn. Barn c. 1 915. Succeeded b'ALBON as 2nd Sccretnry in :May 1947, having been pr eviously erapl oyed in t he lvii nis try of Inf or mat ion, vl·hen t he Ki ng wns for ced to nbd ico.to n:G t he end of the year, he i rrul16diat e l y r esigned, nnd n ow works in t he Roumnni an Section of Rad i o-d iffusion Fr an9-a i se as a braadcas t er and script writer .

Roumanian. 2nd Secre t nry a t Lisbon fr om 1942 t o 1 943 . Appointed t o Paris v;ith the snme r nnk i n 1 94 6 , but was r ec ulled in the c ourse of the yeo.r nnd beco.rae n non-rbturner . In June 1 949 wns r eport ed to be editing t he emi gr è news organ "La Nation Roumnni e 11 •

Addr e ss: 56 rue Pergolese j l 6me ,

Fr ench by birth Rçmmnni an by r.1arriage , Reported in Oct ober 1950 t o be an native und c onvineed C or:t;::~unis t, and 'C o be ?resident of the Uni on des Ferrm1es R~urJaines en France . Is married t o a RouïJani nn doc t or . ·

Rolli~nnian0ew . 1\.ppointed lst Counsellor and ChaJ::gè _yice DRAGOMIRESCU as from 29.6.49. Had pr çvi ously been in Budo.pest. A r eport of Oct ob6r 1950 sta t e s tha t he i s l i kel y t o be r ecalled . I s a d oct or of oedicine.

Ro~nian . The fir s t Cultur. al Attaché t o be o.ppointed when t he Legntion was r eopened in April 1946. Reaalled in about April 1947, and bec nme a non - r e turner, Now holds a chnir in the r or.unce l anguage s a t Santo. Crux. His duties in Par is wer e t aken over t eopor arHy by lllECULCEA, and l a t er by Theodos i a GRAUER.

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·,

ç

CONSTi'.NTil'lESCU, Virgil

-'\ CO'l'El-.NU, I on

/___. D ' l.I.BON , Ion

Rou!Ikmin.n, Consul in Pnris 'mtil September 1947 when he was reaalled nnd became a non-returne:r:-. Left for the :.rgentine witll his farnily in December 191~8 .

~manian. Born Bucharest, 6ol0.20. Cnme to France as a student on 28.12.46, and became Secretary of the Association "Lamartine 11 des Etudiants Rournains en France, in which capacity he is alleged to hnve worked as an SSI agent. Was among the Roumaninns arrested by the police on 31.7.48 nnd depwrted in the m.s. "Transyl-vnnie" on 3.8.48, one of the charges o.gainst him apparently being tha t he ho.d tD.ken part in the labeur disorders at the end of 1947.

Roumnnian. Gareer diplornat who was at Prague during the wo.r and wns internedat the .armist i ce. ll.fter the war was posted to Rome. Vvo.s in Paris on his way back to Buoharest at the time of the Peo.c e Confer ence, nnd wns kept there in con-n eet ion with its work. ;.bout May 1947 was r eaall ed t o to.ke up a post in the For e i gn Ministry , and was r~placed by Bill~ESTI . Nephew of Mihail S.ADOVJJm, some t ime Pres i ö.ent of t he Cha mber of Deputies and Chairman of the Rou-

I manian-USSR Cul turo.J. group . Nat a Communist.

X DRAGHICI, Mall.a. Elizabetha jRoumaninn. Barn :Mehedinti, l l. 3. 22. Reported in N~y 1949 to be empl oyed a t the Lega tion a s typist . Service Passport No. 704.

· X DRAGOMIRESCU, lvlihail Roumanian. Barn Buzau , 10. 10. 14. Appointed l s t Counsellor with the r ank of Minister Pleni-p ot entiary, 2nd Class , and t aak up his post a t the end of June 1948. Left f or Buoharest on reeall on l. 3 . 49, and was posted to Rome, Was reaalled in mid-1950 when he r e signed and appli ed to the Italinn authoritie s for a s ylum, upon which he was abducted and conveyed by aer oplane t o Rour.10.11ia , wher e he ha s disappeared. Had held a minor post a s a t eacher up to 1944, but in 1945 bec ame Secre t ary-General of the "Patriots Union" which l a t er changed its name to the "Na tional Popular Party" and awalgamated ,-.-ith the Communist Party in 1948, From 1946 he r epresented his po.rty in the Chamber of Deputies, and it was his vicious a ttnck on T!TARESCU,

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/ DRAG~UP~SCu: Mihail contd.

)( EGLISE, Charles de 1 1

X FIRU, Sorin

~ / GEORGESOU, Hor ia

GRAUER, Theodosia @ ITZOVICI @ IOACHmESCU

doubtlens inspired by the CoJ,nnl.IDis ts, which led to the latter 1 s resignation on November 6th, 1947. A somewhat doubtful report asserts that when in France he vvas the link between the Roumanian Communist Party and the Gomin-farm on the one hand and the French Communist Pa~ty on the other.

French. Repor ted in October 1950 to be employed in the 'Legation as a porter, ~d to have been f or merly chauffeur to the Communist ex-ivlinister, Charles TILLON.

Rou~anian. Appointed Economie Counsellor in Paris in 1949 vice IONESCU. Was much ccncerned v.-:i.th Houm;:niari business men (nostly Jews) connected with trade betvveen Vve stern o.nd Eastern Eu.rope, and made considerabl e purchases on ,government account. l1 hen in Germany towards the end of Septeraher 1950 he suddenly disappeared. Official explana-ti ons are divergent. In Paris it was givcn out that he had been recalled to Buoharest pending his transfer to Italy but was now "seriously ill 11 , n.nd in Eerne that he wns 11 on a holiday 11 •

Ro~anian. Born Mizil, 30.1.14. Joined • the Fore ign Service in 1937 ru1d was posted

from the Forsign Millistry to Paris as lst Secretary in 1946, when he was in charge of the Lege.tion 1 s c odes. When the King was oompelled to abdionte at the end of December 194-7, he imrnediately resigned and becai:J.e a non-returner. Is now working in London.

R oume.nia.n. Re al nar.1e IOACHINESCU. Born Bucha.rest, 13~3.01. Cultural Attachê in 1947, but was recalled· in the summer of l9l~8 and replaced by QUEDROS @ SOLOl'lfONIDES. Is the ex-wife of a professor of philology, and is a philologist hersülf. Accordiug to report, became a schools' inspeetor after her return to Ho'!.lmania. Vvhile in Paris, oay have been conneetod with SSI activities as an agent of MORUZI.

~ GTJDJU, General

y",, D / GUIBU, Mme Otilia

X HJJUUC, N'iohi ta.

RounanLm. Cor.n:1urüst. Head of the Roumo.nian Milit"..ry Mission in 1946-47, a mission vïhich was n.sv(;r cloarly dt::fined, although it was ostensibly concerned wit h the repatriation of Rounaninn nationnls froEI Western E\lrope. During his stay in Fretnee h0 r eceived a higher salnry tho.n the lviinist8r, nnd as he was ccn-stuntly travelling, there were s one who bel i eved that he y;as engaged in espi onage. H~ was r ecalled in June 1947 in consequence of the theft two or three months earli8r of certa in docUD.ents fr on his office safe, and was arrested, released and then ra-arrcsted. Whet her he is now at liberty i s unknovvn. The above burglary gave rise to some oomment at the time. GUDJU is understood t o have s ought t o incrir:Jinate a eert a in Lt. CoL LIJJIU, vvho had been attached t o the Milito:ry Mission, but no evidence against him was forthcoming, and it was currently suggest ed that the whole affair was a put-up j ob, o.nd that the missing c ontents of the snfe which, in addition t o the documents, included certain valuables, had been sent to him by T~rARESCU for safe keeping, and that he had decided t o pass the farmer t o the Soviet Embassy o.nd t o c onvert the latter t o his ov.n use.

Roumanian. Ex-wife of a Roumanian I,Jow who chn.nged hLs nai:J.e t o SYLVIU. Reported in Janue.ry 1947 to be Press Secretary, but to be under notice of recall. Had previously held the same post in Madrid, but had obtained a transfer t o Paris through her husband 's influenoe with the Social Dernocrats, Was n.called in 194 7 or

0tv· 1948, but refused t o return and ri'Jmained in

Paris. Although one repor t states that the Opposition viewed her with suspic~on, there · seei:J.s no reason why she should not be rege.rded

o r-·1 as a genuine politioal refugee 1

Roumaninn. Born Frumosol, 13.3.06, Reported in ~ay 1949 t o be employed by the Legati on as chauffeur, and in June 1950 t o be steward at the Roumanian Consulate. Has lived in France f or IJany yeo:rs, and was in Mo:rf>eilles befare

1 c oming t o Pn.ris.

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j HERSCHB!'!.lJM 7 Ro::w.

/ HERSCOVITZ, Dr. Andre

/ HIOTT, Constant in Dinu

•

RoUDaruan or Russian Jewess. Born Kyari (Russin) c.l925. Reporte~in June 1950 t o be a young girl eoployed in the L,.; gr•.tion,

Rouoanian Jev~ , Born Bras ov, 10,9.08, Doctor of uedicine and. radiolegist employed at the F endation Curie~ 25 rue d 1UJ.m, 5me. Prominent member of the Front Nc:d;i onn.l Roumain in F:::-ance. Numerous reports f~ om 1948 t o 1950 state that he was the prime rnaver in all intelligence nctivities c onducted fr om outside the Legation, and everything points to his having been the SSI illegnl representative. V1as among those nrrested by the police on the night of 31.7.48, and deported on the m.s. "Transylvanie" on 3.8.48.

I Addr ess: (1948) Gbis rue Ps.steur , l'.rcue il} (Seine).

Roumanian. Barn Bucharest, 6.11.-96. Studied a t a Paris lycèe, and fr om 1919 t o 1921 a t the

1Faculty of Law. Entered the Fore ign Service in 1921 and , nfter serving at Prague fr om 1 922 t o 1925 and Lond on fr om 1925 t o 1928, was empl oyed i n the Fore i gn Ministry until 1934, nfter which he was in succession Counsellor a t Vvarsaw (1934-37) and Budnpest ( 1~37-39). In 1940 was appoint ed by ANTONESCU Minister of the Vichy Government. Knew France v.rell and had s olid links with Fr ench s ociety, but was n ot a IDÀ~ of any exceptional c apacity and ~;ed his rapid promotion l ar ge ly t o the f act tha t his f a ther, also a diplornat, had been Co,J.rt Chamberlain. Af t er the Roumanian Government declared war on Germany, he was placed en d isponibilite. but remained in Fr ,~ce ind, a ccording t o one r eport, maintained c ontact with his l

Y. JESOV'&, ;)1 ·.

KATZ, Dr. Ln.znre @ IJ .FITTE , Dr.

KLEIN.

'_,

. ·L1 GüeëiÜn.n. Born c o 188 5 • N .x,ünal h~:; nd of t he RoÜ."i!C2Ünch sub ject ~ ince 1946. Born Bot osruü, lL 2o 10. Reported in Dc cer.1bur 1948 t o be o. militnnt menber of the French Comnunist Pn.rty. Is a d oct or of neJ.icine.

see MICU, Tro.io.n.

• X lJl.UGER, lvlicheline jv 1 ' • Rmm1aninn. Reported in October 1950 t o be empl oyed i.:..1. the Legati on a s typist o

IJ~US:EERG .

r~ ·j LAVRILLIER, l..lexo.nUrino. 0·

~ 1 LAZ.AR, He l enn.

0

v ~ "( LEVENSOHN, Mart he

o r,

see JJITREESCU, Tudor.

rtouu~niru< by birth French by marriage: R~ported in Oct ober 1950 t o be n.n active Communist who, with Dr. JESOVER and Georges BOC, was a member of the c ommittee of every organisation of the

. pr o-regi Ele section of the Roumo.nian Colony.

RouDanin.n. Empl oyed n.t the Legation in J [muary 1947, when she was stateel t o be "the keenest pro-Comunist on its femo.le sto.ff", a report which is unlikely t o be true, as she is the sister of Gen. LAZ!ill, ADC.t o the King, and was d ismissecl in the c ourse of the year. She is ·now living in Paris as a refugee , n.nd is described as moderate in her political outlook,

Bessarabin.n Jewess na turalised French subject. Born Olgop ol, (Russin) 16.11 .07. J oined the Legation n.s se·cretary in September 1 194 7,

1 on the rec om,1endation of the lviinistry of the Interi or ·, and workeel in Consular Section and in the r egistry. A rGport of June 1950 declareè. that she v;as the "re sponsable I:)Olitique 11 , and that n.lthough n ominally secreto.ry t o CH!JU..P, she in f act elireeteel him. "·· report of October stnted , hov;ever, thn.t

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. LEVENSOHN, Mnrthe c on td.

r\..

X :NUJUNESCU, Nikol :ü conttl.

... 0 . e /( ~,U.TEI or I·iiLTHEI

o ·; :WiESNJJID, Go or ges

:.. . / 1UCU, Trn.io.n @ KLEIN ()

MIRE, Alexanèlre

0

•

c.ftt::r the y;o.r 0 d it ec:. its monthly publicn.ticm "La. Row:1o.ni e Librv ". Some tiDt:: during 1~4-7 he \ïas o.ppointecl P.L·ess Secr

/ NAT AF i Yelald.e

X NICOLAU, Victor

0 f ONIGA, Mme.

~ . 0

0

Roumar..ian. Barn c. 190), Reported in October '1950 t'ÖSe eml)loyed in the Leg:~. ti on as a typis t ,

Roumaniá.Il. Born Ulmeni 1 17 .12,04, the son ::.f Eugen ""'NËÖULCEA,, who w:=t.:J aften in Pl:.'.:::-ie. ë.uring the intur-·,var years as tbe rep::eaentatJ.ve of the R ouma.nia.1 Mi::ds'G:t:'y of Fina.n;::e. r.urir.g the war served witb. t:1e Rounv=tnian foroes in Hus si!:l. 1Ni t!1 tl1e rank of li~mtenant 1:1nc~ fough·G at Stalingr r.:i, and i t i s al legeel that it. was in order t o make amenels for t his t hat he later became a fanatioal Communis t. Hel d some quite minor post on the mat hematical facul t y of Buoharest Univer s ity under STOILOV unt il appoint ed in April 1 ~46 Pl'ess Counsellor i n Paris , doubtless wit h the o·oject of a s s isting MORUZI to keep his farmer Chi ef under obs ervat ion. In mid-1947 it was r eported that he was likely s hortly to be r e -callecl, but in October he was pos t ed to 1'he Hague as Chnrgé , · boing aocreclited te Det:.mar k early in 19/J-9. In May 194.9 he ~Na r. rcplaced a t The Hague by P.NDREESCU, and l a ter in the s ummer y;as di smissed f r om the Fore i gn Service on the gr o'..U'lds t hat his "politi

~ ROSENTHAL , Jac ob c ontd .

X ROUSSIA, l:..ndre i a

• X ROUX, Elie

SCHARF, Nus sen

SCHOR, Josef

X SOBOTKA , Miha i

c.. / SOLAKOLOU, Te odor

/ SOLOMONIDES, Virgil 0

y./ SOMt\ , Alexa.ndrina o•

d i s d rétion who, although n ot a Communi s t , r endered certa in services to the present regi me a t the t ime of t he Peace Conference, and prepared the G~vernment 's ca se in c onneet -ion with t he r el ease of the so-c alled CRETZ-I.P.NU Fund in Swit zer land. Hi s posici on as 1 egal r.tc'l.viser was howevor a nornlnal one, and v.a;:; given hi m, at hi s r e quest , sol al y on ac count of t he d i pl omatic privilege it carried. I n l9L~9 t he pos t was r t::por t od t o be held by iJRESCU - G!ILATZ, and i t was r ec ently st a ted tha t all s uch wor k is n ow d i schar ged by lvliRE , t he Le gal Adv i ser t o the Consula t 0 -General.

Roumanian. Employed in the Legation as a t ypis t s ince at l east May l9L,.9.

F r Gnc h. Reported in J1me 1 950 to be s eore tary t o t hc Ec onomie Counsollor .• 8o:·in FIRU.

s ee SUCIU, (Nikolai) Petre

s ee SORU, Joseph

R oumaninn. Reported in Oct obAr 1950 to be employed in the Lega tion as a telephonist.

Roumanian. An old pressman who worked in Ïtäly befare and in Turkey during the war. La t clr became head of the Rador Agency in Bucharest. In April 1946 he was posted to Paris as lst Counsel7or, but in February 1947 he was transferred to Brussels, and in the following Nove mber to the Va tican, where he r e sig:aed at the end of the year when the King was oompelled to abdicate. After livipg for a time in Paris as a refngee, he J eft for

! Venezuela where ho is now in business.

see QUEDROS, 1mdrei

R ournaninn. Born Buohar e st, 15.5, 21. Employed in the Le ga tion since at least lvio.y 1949 . ,

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/ SORU, Joseph @SCHOR, Josef RouinSRian Jr:;w. Born Comevada , 11. 7,97 . ;,ccount ant . Firs t c n.me to Fr nnc e in 1919. ~·.n oxpul s i on order was i s sued aga inst him on 27 . 9 . 22 for c onducting CoiD!ïlunist propa -ganda, but was n ot a arried out owing to

o / ST1\RK

X STOILOV, Simon

the intervention of the Con~unist Deputy f or the SE>ine, Henr i EERTRON . J,ccording to the Frenchp wa s a member of the Frant Nat i onal Roum.ain, and played a prorainent role during the Ocoupati on. On 24.5.45 he was f i ned f or c l andes t inely crossing the Franco-s;viss front ier in Haute ..Savoie . Is stated to have been not onl y a fnna tical Comm~ist but an SSI agent, who received cons~dernbl e s~~ of money from MORUZI o.nd wa s in touch wit h SUCI U n.nd lJIDREESCU.

-Expelled from France on 1 7.8.48. On his r e turn to Buoharest i s underst ood to have bçen e mployed in the Fore ign Ministry as nn e:ï>.-pert on French affa irs, \'v ife Rose ·

J. ' ' n~e BERCOVITZ, French n a ti enOl b or n Paris 4.7.00. . ' '

see MOIREAU, Charles J ose ph

Rouranninn. Mnthenk'l tician of distinction and f ar mer Rect or of Bucho.rest Univer s ity. Appointed first Rour:münn Minister when the Lega·bion was r eopened in ;~.pril 1946, but never exercised uny r eal authority and t he . , LegatJ..on YID.S run by MORUZI vmo had been . ' appo~nted t o st~pervise him, a.nd act ed a s Ohar gè during his frequent absences. V1as reaalled in miU.-1948. .:~ t t ended the Confer -ence of intellectuals a t Wroclaw in October 1948, and on his return was elected t o the Rounm.nian Acaderey, vvhen he resumed his vvork at the University. A r e port of November 1949 declared, however, tha t he wa s in Portugal. L .serious-minded man and had · solid links vv"ith the French scientific circles, but of no great strength of

lcho.racter. Had always held left~wing views but had never belonged t o any political party nndJif a Co~~unist at all, was only a n omino.J: meE1ber.

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y SUCIU, (Ni kol ai ) Pe i;r e @ SC~ARF, Nussen @ ZIMMERMAN , Pe t er @ VtEI SlviANN

0 fv / TOMOROVEANU, Col. Ion

Roumani an J ew. Nrune f al se and has been variously r eported as bei ng Nussen SCHARF and Pe t er ZilVIMER-MAN . Barn ( ?Cernaut i), 21.5 .10. Engineer and Communi st of long standi ng. First came to France in 1937, i s alleged t o have served vvith the FTP J uring t he Occupation ru"d to h~ve been r e~po~s i ble for forming the Front Nat1onal Rouma1n ~ ?rance. Went back t~ Roumania in 1945, but r e t urned to Pari ~ i n about September 1947, when he >Jas given a post i n conneet i on vd th t he s ince abol i shed Roumanian Tauri st Off i ce , whi ch enabl ed hi m t o t r avel cant i nually. Early i n 1948 succeeded BillvülliSTI at thJ Legation with the rank of Counsellor, and w~s t her eaft er r epor t ed t o be working closely Wl th MORUZI the t wo being said to handle SSI agents , . t indiffdrently . \~ as probably the Communl.s Party representative in France, and was reported t o have been l argely re sponsi~le for the .found-a tion in January. l948 of the AJsociation des Roumains en France through the fusion of the FNR with the Union des Rournains en France (URF). His r eeall was r e quested by the Quay d'Orsay at the end of July 1948, this being possibl;9' in connec~ion witn a r.3port that he had been disc overed to be running an agent in the LEDUC Works at Toulouse, v;~üch was manu-f acturing a new type of jet-propelled engine, According to a · r eport of April 1949, he was th0n holding the post of Director of western Affairs in the Foreign Ministry. A more intelligent man than MORUZI, he was probably the real power behind the scenes· in the Legation during the J?aTiod when he was a merober of its staff.

· Roumanian. Military Atl;n.ché in Paris and Vichy from 1940 to August 1944. Later went over to the Opposition, fu1d was reaponsible for issuirig the pro-RADESCU "Let ion Roumaine", the first number of which appeared in December 1947. A r eport of February 1949 declared that he had severed all conneetion with politics and was growing mushrooms commercially outside Paris. His post as Military ·Attaché was left vacant.

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TOROSI/IN, Herant

?( URSE.SCU-GllLl~TZ, Constnntin

VINESCU. A1phonse @ WEINEERG

X VISALOM, Ion

r. 0

Roun..'Ul.ian. Lawyer in Constant['; befare the war . Consul -General i n Pari s until November 194 7 when he was reaalled and m-r est ed nllegedl y on account of certain financial transn.ctions i n which h0 had been involved. J.-cter;rpted t o l Gave Rol.lr.1ani a clandestinely 1 but w2.s cn.ught LU1.d i s nou serving a five yen.rs' prison sentence . Hi s wife i s s t at ed t o be in prisan in Fr ance , though f or what reason is unknovm. His r ank as Ec onomie Counsellor was pure1y nominal and was givon t o him in order tha t hG might enj oy diplo-matic i rnmunity. He had owed his appointment t o PATR..'.SCEANU, and was politically an oppor tunist . He was sucoeeded as Ec onomi e Counsell or by Viat or IONESCU, but his post as Consul-General has nat been f illed.

Roumani an. Barn Galatz, 21.1~ . 14. Reported in May 1949 to be Honoral'Y Legul Counsellor t o the Legation. J.s rn r epor t of Oc t ober 1950 declares that he has s oc i al i st l eanings and is n ow living in Par i s as n. refugee, I:L'1d as 1\URE i s s t at ed t o be the pr esent l egn.l lltlviser, it woL'ld seem that he eHher resigned the above post or wn.s disr.1issed,

Roumanian Jev; . Name originally VvEINBERG. Manager of the Societ a Finisicint, 2 rue Gervex, l ?me. Reported t o have been s ome time r:Jember of the Foreign Service , and t o have come t o Pn.ris in May 1948, when he wa;; in touch with Roumanian of ficial ciroles. Is stated to have been a1~1ong those arrested by the po1ice on 31.7.48, but t o have been released after interrogati on .

Rournanian. Barn 18.4.19. Post ed t o the Legatian in 1947 as Head of Chancery, and notified to tho Quay d 1 Orsay as "cha!1.Cèlier archiviste". Had in fact been previ ously employed as lri/T telegraphist at the Legatians in Teheran and Budapest, and it was an open secret that he kept a clandestine wireless set in his bedr oom. In the s~r of 1950 he was described as Conspl, b~t in .August he went back t o Buoharest and has not

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WEINBERG~

ZTivi!vlERM/>N, Pet er

s3.nc :, rut.urnod -~ o Pnriso Ris worlc o.s Gunsul ie baing cat-rü;d out by his o.ssis-;;o.nt Nbrthc LEVSNSG'ff\T,

Bsmrxmüm. Repo.rtuc1 in F'ebruat'y 194-7 t o be o. .jou:.'nn.list o.na the ovmcr of ''Editi on '!:T.tU.NU'1; v•hich d i.J n.ll the printir.; f or >cJ::e Lvgntion. h o.s stn.ted to b