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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.
(DE 105-478) GLICHI4ORARU, sympathetic toward Bishop ANDR::;;; NOLDOVAN. This issue con- '—tairxr-eartrrti-ettrion Page 4 entitled, "Rumanian Masi Murderer of 6,000 Jews Now Rumanian Bishop in USA". This article ums'taken from the February 9, 1953 issue of "The Day", Jewish journal, and states in part as followst "MR= TR1FA was one of the most extreme Nazis and Jew-baitersin Rumania. Thanks to his hate- campaign he was leading among the Rumanian population, ths Jews in Bucharest were massacred on the days of January 21-23, 1941-Over 6,000 Jews. He was the one who gave the signal that the Iron Guard should start the Pogrom". The Pogrom started with the arrests and fights, than continued with fires in Synagogues, Jewish institutions and ended with the robbing of Jewish properties". This article continues by explaining the terrible slaughter of the Jewish people and goes into great detail to explain how the Jews, after being massacred, were hung on butchers hooks with signs reading "Kerne Kosher" or "Kosher Meat" displayed on the dead bodies. ' The article continues by stating that when Genera]. ANTONESCU quelled the revolution, TRIFA was Subject to arrest, but with the aid of the Ger- man High Command, he escaped to Vienna where he participated in the Governrsent in exile and agitated against the United States and her Allies. 1-4 stated that in 1937 he traveled from the United States to Temesver, Rumania with his young son where he resided at 6 Tapia Street after being refused return passage to the United States after the outbreak of the war. 1-4 stated that in January, 1945 after the so-called "libera- tion" of Rumania by the -Russians, a group of Russian soldiers and doctors traveled by train from Leningrad to Odessa where they changed 14: and then traveled on to Temesver, Rumania.. 1,4 stated that one Najor)NICOLA ICCEIOVICH, two female doctors, MAU and ANTONINA, and an individual. hy the name of VIORFL, requisitioned rooms from him at his residence on Tapia Street. 1-4 stated that VIOR2L was the engineer in charge of the train from Odessa who was appointed to this position by the Rumanian Government. 1-41-4 stated that after VIOR31. had resided at his residence for a period of approximately 4 days, he went on an errand to the Temesver ;.. for the two female doctors with the understanding that he would exchange their ru I 1 a for Rumanian lei and return in an hour. According to the Informant, VIOREL °mei -4-4-
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