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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.
— 5 — OFB g (17 105-478) the two doctors that his uncle was the Diracter of the 1-ark and that he .would have co difficulties.. 1-4 stated that two days later he recelved a card from J. si.atin: th.t \I# ?. would soon return with the money for • I, and aN- TONINa. The Infor*It. Stated that on Januar', 29, 1945 he received a seCOnd let- ter fro.a stated that he .as in Tucha . est at the ,oards- sioner's ani.th,t he would return as soon as possible to Femesver. 1-4 stated that in the spring of l',45 L appeared at his home An fenuever dressed in . revs and that VL),.1. informed 1-4 that he had been tortured end persecuted by the Communists. 1-4 stated that t. e caked 11.0.1A% at .that time if he was a member or the . emanian Iron luard and ih.t VFX. Z.ens”ered affirmatively. - 1-4 stated that since he returned to the United 3tates he has seen the ':;ubject T,IPu in .person and has also seen numerous pictures of him in Aumanian Orthodox publications. 1-4 stated that ho positively identi- fies the illbject as being the same individual to whom the fore:Ting story relates. Confidential Inforrant Detroit 1-6, another lovernmental Arencv that conducts security type investigations, stated that the ;ubject fled Corerunism in AumAnia in 1946; spent six years as a Displaced !erson in Paris, 7rance and that he entered Canada•on July 4, 1952. T-4 further stated that the .;ubject had been u Commissar (officer) of the uumamian police in ilucharest prior to his fleeiral .a:mrunia and prior to that had spent four years In a seminary studying to be a priest in the 'aimanian , :rthodox Church. 1-6 stated that he had never met T.LIFi: personally but through Aumanian newspapers and police information knew him to be a member of the Iron guard. 1-6 stated that he had never heard of the :utj ..!ct ever committin.7. any kind of crime.
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