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gan za one in FranceWASRF-0286, MGM-A-1618, MUNI-739.

1. mh-_frillowing report is a suppl— "4 *_14MGM-A-1618.Source is -.rwho is being debriefed by - 3 The ormationhas been given a tentative evaluation of trz2:„...g_

2. The LFR "activity committee" was organlze6 as a resultof the assurances given to General BADRSCU by the French 2e Bureauthat they would provide sufficient material and financial supportto enable the organization to achieve its aim of cooperation withthe French IS. General RADESCU was the moving force behind theRumanian end of the negotiations as he was desirous of establishingcontact with as many Rumanian resistance groups as possible withthe view to controlling Rumanian resistance activities at homeand abroad. The general has consistently encouraged the creationof organizations of Rumanian emigrants with the idea of eventuallyuniting them in some kind of an organization which he would control.

3. The creation of the following organizations was inspiredor encouraged by the general:

a. QABOMAN.. Created in France for the assistance ofRumanian refugees in autumn of 1947. Founders were Edgineer NicolaeCABABFIL and General Nicolae RADESCU. Although the organizationraised great hope,s among Rumanian refugees at the time of itsfounding, it tu ed out to be a disappointment.

b. Tb; IL EMINESCU CULTURAL ASSOCIATION in PArj.,s,... Itspromoter is Mir ,-iiiiiter-ah& a well-known Legionarysympathizer and theorist.

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Fe ruary 194 , ow ng convey:Worn between RADESCU and GHEORGBE.of Ger .--GONTNI-I- s the . It was founded in ..k

d qflE LEGIONARY MO . found that this groupwas in a profoundly disorganized state abroad as well as in Rumania!itself. Since the general realized the potential for clandestine !activities of the Legion, he did all he could to give it newimpetus. The general had numerous conversations with: „Of/

(1) Father,Ves1140LDEANU, former Secretary-Generalof the LegiOnd,r movImzent between 1932 and 1940and, at present, head of the French-Italian-Spanish Sector,,of Legionary activity; .

Trl-, , t1 ,/ • 1c(2) lohteATRITL,1111i26802 one of the most promi- ' -r

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General RADESCU promised the Legionariea at least two seats on theNational Committee and UNISON knows that he gave them the followingsums of money: I(

(3) 360,000 French francs were given to MajgMFTEI through Colonel) MOROVEANU in JanuaiI945. MajorMAFTEI was formdiyumanian MA to Zagreb and sub-sequently became Chief of Staff in the SIMA govern-ment after the Rumanian armistice. At present heIs a very important legionary leader and "GeneralRADESCU's military representative for Austria".

(4) 50,000 French francs to Father Vasile BOLDEANU inMay 1948.

(5) $6,500 to Major MAFTEI through BarbU‘CULESCU, General RADESCU's "private secretary-1'Of this sum, $3,000 was destined for clandestinecontact with Rumania and was allegedly distributedto certain unnamed resistance leaders in Rumania

made to UNISON by generaul ,Cby the Legionary staff, accorIzto a

HIRNOAGA.statement

e.-'1HE■DENOCRATIC UNION. This is the latest organizationalmanifestatiiinr=77FEENFET and it was founded in Paris in theSpring of 1949. In it he hoped to incorporate all of the above-mentioned organizations. It turned out to be a total failure,however, end includes only a 1 limited number of peripheralpersonalities from among the Rumanian emigres.

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4. •El :1 is of the opinion that RADESCU is determined to

try to create and control the directing mechanism of the differentIlimuanian associations and considers his attempt with the DEMOCRATICC: "Dwas calculated by the general as an instrument for exertingpressure both on the Crown and on the Cotncil of Political Partiesand that the large sums of money given to the above-mentionedoreanizations by the general were given for demagogic reasons.c: is further of the opinion that the general's efforts to

organize clandestine activity through the Legion and the 2e Bureauwas for the purpose of providing himself with a trump card in hisefforts to gain large sums of money from the French and Americangovernments. At the same time he is trying to convey to Rumaniansat home and abroad the idea that he is the onl y person who canliberate his country from the Bolshevik yoke. C. claims thatRADESCU's maneuvers have lead to a disintegration of the cohesivespirit among Rumanians and to a decidedly anti-monarchist trendabroad and that the latter trend has even been initiated anddirected by some of the sympathizers of General RADESCU.

5.s original reports are attached for FBM files.

Z.1. AumaniankParsonalities:

a. General HIRNOAGA, mentioned in Para. 3.d.(5) above,was War Min s er -tV-S/MA Government in Vienna from Autumn 1944,immediately after Rumania's armistice with the Allies, until thecessation of hoetilitiesAnrilej--1.945. Although he was sentencedby the RADESCU government to life imprisonment on charges of treasonat that time, this has apparently not interferred with his presentcollaboration with RADESCU as CHIRNOAGA told J that he holds amandate from General 3ADESCU for the military organization ofRumanians in restern Germany and Austria. Also present during thecnnversation during which CHIRNOAGA told of the distribution of the$3,000 by Legionary personnel to unnamed resistance leaders inRumania (Para. 3.d.(5) above), were the following Rumanian staffofficers: Co1.4.7ANOVIC Col. TOMOROVEANU, Col. DumitrUISIERU,Naval_2aRtLAl211!? , and Lt. Col. ConstanraximiStU. .7--ur--

b. GerLeraLlon GHEORGBE has strong pro-German feelingsand was always a strairlaqiihnat of German polity. He lived inGermany for a long time and is married to a German woman. Duringthe latter part of the war he was promoted.from Rumanian MA inBerlin to Minister to the German capital. Following the armisticeof 23 August 1944, General GHEORGHE proved his faithfulness to theGermans by issuing circular orders over his signature, requestingthe personnel of Rumanian legations and consulates abroad to"Disassociate themselves from the action of the Rumanian govern-ment in having signed an armistice". George/INASIALain Suissehas a large file concerning GHEORGHE's actfvtries.

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c. Colonel Io OMOROVEAN'., Had decidedly pro-Germanattitude durIng -VIM he served-ii- MA to Vichy. In 1946, theFrench 2e Lureau described him as, "a man without character, anopportunist, immoral and dirty". Although this description wasno doubt somewhat colored by the Bureau's anti-German feelings,the fact is that serious Rumanian circles in Paris find thedescription an apt one even today. TOMOROVEANU joined theRumanian resistance in Paris in order to refurbish his reputation.In 1945 he joined the editorial staff of a French language papercalled % Ata ROMPAA1R-IndalleA4ente", published in Paris by 9.21tel

A0NST4MMINESCS6 a 29 year old man, "exalts" and sickly and whohad 55E-Traihed his college studies. The paper publishedInsinuating and unverified information and sometime published un-justified attacks on a number of the members of the RumanianNational Committee. In the Fall of 1947, TOMOROVEANU quit thepaper as the result of a quarrel which had taken place betweenRADESCU and CONSTANTINESCU. Cause of the disagreement was that-- %RADESCU wanted to make the paper more representative by includinga number of new Oli; on the editorial board. CONSTANTINESCUrefused. TOMORO supported HALSSCU's side of the argument andleft the paper, adopted th ion's Anschauung--and_pupported such

P ICARU, Ion-VRA houg ' t0MOROVEANUr was an ardentcompro ed persons kg, th OLDEAMMOUW4rIntrUILOAIA,

supporter of General BADOCU at the beginning of 1947, he subse-quently forsook him but later returned to the general's way ofthinking. Although he was very attached to the programs of thedemocratic parties in the Spring of 1949, he criticized themviolently in the summer of the same year. In his desire forPolitical position and money, he joined the LFR where he receivesa salary of between 50-60,000 French francs per month.

d.Ltl_galc_rnnqtAn . Weak, timorous, pessi-tUdZ&ZiASIUmistic, dishOnest, poorly trained for his officer career. Full ofvanity and a poor comrade. Since 1945 he has been in the pay of

7->the 2e Bureau for his reports on Rumanian refugee activity. GeneralRADESCU also pays him 20,000 French francs per month. He wasChef de Cabinet of Marshal PREZAN, an outstanding general of WW Iand who requested on his death bed that ATANASIU not be allowedto attend his funeral. C: __I claims that ATANASIU has swindleda number of Rumanians in raris, C- I himself, included. C7 _Dwas taken for 15,000 French francs.

e. Major. 40.4C-QaDIF05CP. Has engaged in all kinds ofdubious affairs since his arrival in France. Pefore his arrivalin that country, while he was still in Czechoslovakia, he hadcongratulated the GROZA government at the time it arrested IuliuMANIU and suppressed the democratic parties. He has denounceddecent Rumanians to the French police on grounds invented by himself.Rumanian circles in Paris consider him to be a dangerous and despi-cable character. He tries to enter all the Rumanian circles underthe cover of patriotism but, in reality, in order to inform on theiractivities to the 2e Bureau. However, even as a provocateur, he isdishonest for the information he Passes on to the French isgenerally false.

5f. Coot. fnd'iNCIg,_ Claims to have come out of Rumania

with a mandlTe from the national resistance movement. He has notbeen able to prove his contention, however, and some of theletters which he has received from R anis via the French diplomaticcourier, are strongly suspect. Ma or Mtreats him with greatreserve and has even expressed t e an Oicion that he might be aCominform agent. During General RADESCD's stay in France inDecember 1948 and January 1949, ENCID visited him and bffered hisservices as a private secretary. It later developed that photo-graphs of some of the general's documents had been given to the

\s 2e Bureau. ORTBEZ later showed C: -72a photograph of an importantletter to RADESCU from King Michael's Aide, General LAZAR.) ENCIUis registered in the Rumanian Socialist Party in Paris - with theanti-monarchist, anti-TITEList, Eftimie GHEMAN-BADARAU faction.The 2e Bureau pays him 25,000 French francs per month for his LFRactivity. He is a heavy drinker and a spendthrift.

g. Captain HEORG Seems to be a serious officer,well traine a owiya great deal about signal communications.Although he is registered pro forma with the same Socialist groupto which ENCIU belongs, he has Legiocary leanings.

h. ir Force om PRAN Former Chief of the Intwlli-gence Section o r Force command in Rumania. Seems to be aserious man and a well trained officer. Has been in touch withRumania through Istanbul.

i. Nea \Dail/ARA._ Although he has some Legionary tendencieshe is the m seriiiind reliable man among the Rumanian personnelof the LFh staff. Both he and his wife are employed by the LFRand are paid a salary of 40,000 French francs per month.

j. Air Force Commander ,G,heo.rgia&el vas a technicianin the air farcii. Vas commissioned as a regular army officer duringthe war along with some other technicians, a departure fromstandard procedure in Rumania. His military training is poor.He is impulsive, has no firm political convictions and has avacillating character. Very attached to Colonel TOMOROVEANU.

7. FRENCH PEASONNE .

a. Colonel Pom . , BARREAL tall_LETTHEZ. About 5 1 8" tall,inlithin, light hair, ini-eyes, wears griiii-s; ova/ face,

aquiline nose, was smooth-shaven, and does not smoke. Apparentage is 47 years. Has an unstable character, is nervous,uncommunicative almost to the point of tactiturnity, is malicious,stubborn, and revengeful. Is intelligent but doesn't know how todeal with people. Very conscientious and persevering. Contactedeither directly or indirectly, all nrominent Rumanians living inFrance or visiting that country. The colonel is married and has2 daughters. His address is rue de la Tour 94, Paris XVI.

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b. 1.1.4fcyl......4=. Approximately 5' 7" tall, thin,brown , smooth-shaven. Apparent age is 50. Ruddycomplexion. Has pleasant personality, is outspoken and frank,talkative, intelligent, and very active. Is new end inexperienced

and has no contact with Rumanians outside thein Rumanian prnblomeLFR. Whenever C: Dmet him, thd colonel was always dressed incivilian clothes.

0. )444ajwoi..AlemE9jy. Approximately 5, 6" tall, hasblond hair, 'ti eyes. Apparent age is 40. Jovial face and talksa great deal. Chain cigarette smoker. Has a decided flair fororganization. Seems to be intelligent and cultured. Is one ofthe most active members of the LPR staff and is really the soul ofthe organization. Seems to be honest and well-meaning, Hoadministers tile funds allocated to the organization. "does not haveany contact with any Rumanians outside the LFR. Whenever t:saw him, the major was wearing civilian clothes. His office islocated on the 3rd floor, 22 rue Drouot and his telephone numberis Provence 4456.

d. Ca CHAND. 5 , 6" tall, well-built, robust,dark brown a r c. eyes. tidy appearance. Neither smokesnor drinks. 'Ipparent age is 37. Is calm, communicative, pleasant,and considerate in discussions. He is very correct in hisrelations with a limited number of Rumanians outside the LFR.Intelligent and orderly in his thinking.

e. Captain R. Approximately 5 , 6" tall, robust.fne6ENIE Has light browh-ali.--Od wears an English-type thin blond moustache.Is a new hand at Rumanian problems and says little and is reserved.Is intelligent and conscientious. Not an orderly thinker.

8. General RADESCD recommended only two of the activemembers of the LFR to the French: Lt. Col. Constantin ATANASIU andCaptain ENCIU. As his political representative to the Frenchauthorities, he desigaatedllIik.A.Us.,44,10 who is now living'in Paris. Prof. fnu,SUNES0ET7tiifessor of the Rumanian languageat the Univertitirlif-aitSh, sued him0n the French courts oncharges of having swindled him. acrFscu)

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SUBJECT : Annex II to . . . (please iniert No. of L.F.R. report)Biographical data on French and Rumanian Staff Beiblore of

. the L.F.R. Organisation.SOURCE : Unison.

I. Biographical data on French Staff Mambora of L.F.R. A. Colonel Paws BAUM, alias ORTHIZ.

Tall, apputhaate1y$ 1 8 11 high, thin, with light brown hairand blue eyes, 'benefit the colonel always were eyeglasses. Ho hasan oval face, an aquiline noes and does not wear a moustache. Apparentage: 47 years old. He does not spoke.

The colonel haq an unstable *hare:tar, is nervous, upon,-municative approaching taciturnity, bad, stubborn and revengeful. He isintelligent but a poor pathologist. Far/ persevarent in all his workhe contacted directly or indirectly all the leading Romanian personnalities

they werewhether/residing in France or just visiting that country.

He is married, has two daughters and lives at 94,. rue de inTour, Paris, 16e.

• B. Lt.Oolonel GRANDEE, fem.Hs is approximately 5 1P1 tall, thin, has brown hair and brown

eyes, no moustache. His apparent age is 0. He has a ruddy oomplexion.Grandee has a pleasant personality, is outspoken and frank,

talkative, intelligent and very active. He is new and inexperiencedin the Ruaanian problems and has no contact with Rumanians outside the

dressedL.P.R. lben not he was always/in civilian clothes.

r777.1 r --/C. wor BEAUMONT fin.

Major Hommont is approximately $ 1 6 11 high, has blond hair,

blue ayes. His apparent age is 40. He has a jovial face and is

communicative; he speaks very much. lhenevor met he was observed toamoke one cigarette after another.

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The major has a pronounced organisational spirit. He seems

to be very intelligent and to possess a good general culture. Heins

dynamic and purseverent be is the mbst active member of the L.F.R.

staff and the "soul" of that organisation. Be seems to be honest,

frank and uell meaning. He administeri the funds allocated to the

organisation. He does not contact any ROManiani outside the organisation.

The najor ems only observed searing civilian clothes. He

works in an office located on the 3rd floor at 22 rue Drouot and his

telephone number is Provence .445b.

D. Captain NARCIIAND, inn.

5 ,6" high, well built, robut, the captain has dark bromn

hair and brown woe. His attire and general appearance sem, *clever

met, very tidy. He neither meokes,nor drinks any kind of iboholic

beverages. His apparent age is 37.

Gala, oomuninative, very pleasant, Captain Marchand was

always considerate rand very friendly in discussions. He is correct in

his relations with a limited umber of Rumanians outside the L.F.R.

He is intelligent and orderly in his thinking. -

E. Daptain GRIMIER fnu.

Approximately NO' high, Captain Grenier is robust and has

light brown hair. He wears an English type thin blond moUtadhe.

The captain is a new hand in the Rumanian problems. Be is

timid, reserved, calm and speaks little. He is intelligent and

conscientious. He does not seem to have a definite method in his

thinking.

2. General RADIUM recommended to the French only two of the

active unborn of the L.F.R. organisation, namely Lt.Colonel Constantin

ATANASIU and Captain ENCIU.

As his political representative the General designated to the

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RERNSCU has been sued in the French courts for swindling by Prof.

BUNISCU, fun, Rumanian language professor at the Lisbon university.

Act, mul Attitudes ef3. einsbapkbpri At& on/Rumanicni0M0491embers of L.F.R. skoff

A. Colonel Ion TCRONCINIANO.

Colonel TOICROVIANU had a decided pro German attitude U.

he served as Rumanian Military Attache to Vichy. Because of that the

officers of the French 20 Bureau described him in 1946 as 'amen

without character, an opportunist, inmoral and dirty". In fact the

rerbus Rumanian circles in Paris agree even at present with that

description. In order to save his reputation, compromised at Vichy,

the colonel joined the present resistanoe struggle.

In 1945 he. Joined the editorial staff of a French language

Rumanian paper called "La Roumania Independents", published in Paris

by Cost.]. CONSTANTIN:MU, a 29 year-old exalted and sickly men who had

not finished his college studies. The paper published insinuating,

unchecked information and at times attacked unjustly a nuaiber of the

present member', of the Rumanian National Comaittee.

In the Autumn of 1947 TONOROVEARU quit the paper following

a quarrel between RADS= and CONSTAMCMCO. RALOCU wanted to make

the paper more representative by inetlnA4ng a number of people in its

editorial board; CONSTAMTINISCU, who considered the paper his personal

property, refused. TCNORGWRANO, thereupon, adopted a Legionary attitude,

and supported persons who had compromised themselves a long time before,

such oss Father BOLDRAND, BTAIA fnu, Ion NILOAIA, Pamfil IzAssam SRICARU,

Ion DRAM

Ardent supporter of General RADESCU at the beginning of 1947,

TOMOROVRAIVIrgloik and returned to the general's line of thinki ng a

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political parties in the Spring of 1949, he criticized them violently in

the Summer of the some year.

Ever Writing for political positions aid for money he joined

the L.F.R. 'bore he receives a salary of 50,000 to 60,000 Fr. free. per

month.

B. Lt. Colonel Constantin ATANASIU.

ATANASIU is weak, timorous, pessimistic, dishonest, very

poorly prepared mod trained for his officer's career. He is full of

vanity and a poor comrade. He has been paid by the French, for his

services concerning the Rumanian refugees and their activity, ever since

1945. He received that money from the French Re Bureau. Re is paid

with 20,G00 Fr.fros. per month by General RADBSCU, also.

While he was Chef de Cabinet of Marshal PREZAN (World War I

outstanding general eh° during the period that followed that war was

given, together with AVERBSCU, the honorary rank of **rebel) his Chief

requested on his deathbed that "ATANISIU be prevent* from attending

even his funeral".

Unison was himself =ladled by ATANASIU, along with other

Rumanians, of 15,000 Frame. immidiately after his arrival in France.

C.Major Boby CHINTESCU.

CHINTESCU has engaged unscrupulously in all kinds of deals

ever since his arrival in Franc*. Before arriving in France he had

congratulated the °ROZA Government for it activity, fros Czechoslovakia,

at the time of the arrest of Iuliu MANIU and the suppression of the

democratic parties. In Paris he denounced to the French police on

invented grounds a number of good, honest Rumanians. He claims to have

good contacts at the American Webasey in Paris. He is considered by

the Rumanian circles in Perim as a dangerous man with a despicable

character. He constantly tries to force himself on all Rumanian circles

through intrigue and patriotic hypocrisy with the sole aim of informing

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the French 2e Bureau, but most of the information he gives than is false.

D. Ceptain ENCIU, inn.

ENCIU claims to have come out of Ibeasnia with a mandate

from the national resistance movement mhich hi could not prove except

by dubious actions which seem to have been fabricated by him in France.

Same of the letters which ENCIU received fraa Rumania, through the French

diplomatic courier, 'were mysterious and suspect. kajor BEAUVOIR had a

great reserve toward ENCIU and expressed his suspicion that he might

be even a Cominform agent.

It is interesting to note that during General RADESCUle

obey in France, in December 1910 and January 1949, SNCIU visited him

at Grand Hotel and offered his services as private secretary. As a

result all the documents the general Itad were photographed and turned

over to the French 2e Bureau. (This was confirmed * to Unison by

(RTHEZ who showed his an important letter addressed by General LAZAR,

King kichsel le Aide, to RADESCU).

ENCIU is at present registered with the Rumanian Socialists

in Paris (the antimonarchist, anti-TITEIist, Eftimie GRUM - BADARAU

faction). For his L.F.R. activity he is paid by the 2e Bureau 25,000

Fr.fres. per month.

He is a heavy drinker and a spendthrift.

E. Captain P. OIDIORGHIU.

Captain GHEORGHIU seems to be a serious officer, well

trained and to possess a good signal knowledge. He has Legionary

affinities although he is registered pro forma with the same Socialist

group to which ENCIU belongs.

F. Air Force Commander OPRAN, former Chief of the 2nd (intel-

ligence) Section of the Air Force Command in Rumania, seems to be a

serious man and a well trained officer. He has contacted Rumania

through Istarbul, /Urkey.

G. Idea DJUVARA.Although having Legionar7rmainiscences is the most aerious

and reliable element among the Rumanian personnel of the L.F.R. staff.

Both he and his site are employed by the L.F.R. and are paid a salary

of 40,000 Frarce. per month.

OheorgheR. Air Force CanseiderrISAFU.

LRAM sae at technician in the Air Force, i.e. he belonged to

a anali group of Air Force technical N.C.O. le who could normally be

promoted only up to a captain's rank. An exception vas made during the

war and some of that personnel, including IR" were commissioned reviler

army officers. His military training is poor. He is iinulsive, has no

political convictions and has a vacillating liaracter. He is sexy

attached to Colonel TOMOROVEANU.