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This undated Central Intelligence Agency memorandum was sent to the Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in reply to a request for derogatory information on Nicolae Malaxa, a Romanian industrialist. It reviews certified Romanian records supplied in 1949 on Malaxa's behalf. It covers claims that he collaborated with Germany, his links to the Iron Guard and his arrest after the 1941 revolt, and compensation arranged by the Communist-dominated government. It also reports his continued financial support of exile groups. The document contains no UFO material.
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exchange of gold in Switserland against gold in Roumania, also ;ay the $2,460,000.00 debt which the Roumanian government owed to the MAU conies.' (Statement dated 15 September 1949) Pespite numerous government laws, decrees and : ministerial actions ratify- ing agreements to pay NALAXA, he (1ULAXA) states, in a document over his signature submitted to this Agency by COLCALRE, that this agreement °was never retitled as the representatives of the Communist party in the gamma- meat were opposed to any payments being made to the companies." . • 24. MALAXA's statement appears to be contradicted in paragraph 21 above and in what purports to be a copy of the original (with an Reglit% tmemalation) of journal 722 of 7 June 1946, in which the government spelled out means of sacating foreign exchange for full payment of the *4460,000 due MALAXA. (Attachment P, dated 7 June 1946, not certified). Article two stateds 'The foreign exchange needed for this payment shell be secured by the export of oil products, lumber, grain, vegetables or other ,domestic (indigenous) products, in their natural or transfOrmed • comiition.' The signatures of Communist Premier GROZA, GREORGHIU-TIEJ, Petra CONSTAR- TIEESCU-IASI, Stefan WITEC and Tudor IONESCU appear on the page es endorse- ments of the Journal. GROZA, GMEORGHIU-DEJ and CONSTANTINESCU-IASI are all well-known leading Rumanian Communists. VOITEC, at that time a left- wing Socialist Minister of Education, in 1947 proposed the unification of the Socialist and Communist parties. In 1948, he became a member of the Centre/ Conadttee of the Rumanian Communist party. IONESCU, then . Secretary of Nines and Petrol, in 1947 received from GROZA the Star of Rumania, First Class. A written opinion disagreeing with Journal 722 was entered over what appears to be the signature of Minister without Tort- folio Mai ROMICEANU, former Minister of Finance under RADESCU. (ROMNICEANU was wounded by gunfire while speaking against the undemocratic 1946 elections, arrested and, according to recent information, is still in prison). 25. A further effort of the government to provide financial reimburse- ment to Subject is indicated by S. Bertrand JACOBSON, former Assistant Director of the Amerriaan Joint Distribution Committee in Rumania, who wrote in what is represented to be a copy (with English translation) of 'a letter to MALAXA on 11 .Apri/ 1949s no a result of the conversation I had here this morning with Mr. Duncan, I have the honor to inform you of the following feats.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 69 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.