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This FBI Detroit field office report, file 105-478, was released through the Central Intelligence Agency. It covers Bishop Viorel Trifa of the Rumanian Orthodox Church in the United States, and its date is not clear in the text. Informants describe his role in a factional church dispute, his leadership of the American-Rumanian Orthodox Youth, and his past as an Iron Guard leader in Rumania. It also cites a press article that blames him for the January 1941 Bucharest pogrom. The report has no UFO content.
AINtag 'U.9 el• C (XI, 105-478) T-2 stated that the following individuals are residents at nearby :olf lAke and are ass elated with the occupants of the .Vatras TAXA!' UDN., 1079 Lakewood zItreet, .letrdit and 3946 Burk- hardt .ioad, ::.oute 47, Jacks v"ichigans JOGaR TUX:Liii, 8547 :ussex, Detroit and *sate .i7, Jack- son, lichigan; 111W. VT.AEP, 119 4nona, Eighland Park, t cichigan and Route n, Jackson, "ichimp; Aolf Lake, 'dchigen; cmcilnk •olf Lake, lichigan; DAV !mite e7, Jackson, td.chigan V BIRO, Wolf Lake, Michigan B. Iron Guard T-/. stated that the Subject was stopped by the Canadian authorities upon hie entrance into Canada on April 25, 1953 to attend a celebra- tion at the Saint George Runtanian Orthodox Church, Tierre street, hindsor, Canada. According to T-1, the majority of the parishioners of this church are displaced persons and former members of the Fain:avian Iron ;card. The priest, teverent N. ICALA, according to . T-1, was a Lieutenant in the Iron luard servinc under the Subject. Confidential Informant Detroit T-3, another Governmental Agency that conducts secaritty type iavestigations ande original sources are unknown, stated on July 1, 1953 that( Reverentip=ak -gtiCAIA of the Re.....liAn 7V Orthodox 4uroh in Andsor, Ontario, Canada his as his assistant the Archimandrite, MARTINI:: A T NOVICI, former head of the Rumanian Orthodox Church in Paris. Accord- ing to -3, the Arehimandrite IVAN)VICI was appointed to the Paris post in 1948 by the Rumanian Ministry of Cults under the auspices of the current Rumanian Com- munist regime. It s was stated that at the time of this appointment he had received the support Of 1211030DNAlu;S, present Minister of Defense who was then head of the Rumnian S.S.1. (Intelligence Service) * It is alleged, according to T-3, that on Jannt.ry 24, 1948, with the Rumanian Legation staff present at the church service, IVANOVICI swore allegiance to the Rumanian People's hepublic making certain changes within the Marv. Archimandrite IVANOVICI was later removed after much internal strife by a Provisional Pariah Council in Paris on charges of improper practices and maintaining contact with the itumanian Legation. • C. Current Q lit in the •manian Orthodox Church Confidential Informant Detroit T-4, of unknown reliability but who :'.s well acquainted with the Subject and the aunanian Orthodox Church - 2 - 14W.PAik4X,A,WA001,,,,
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 5 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.