SERVICE DESPATCH DC- HOT TYPE IN THIS SPACE m rare ed FROM AmLega ion Bucharest T0 1 n or TATE waemerou REF Legttl 330 of November 1956 14qu gel 45w L'annlj 1 L- 35 Ftp -- 2 Lff fi y EX SUBJECT at Legation 3'3 7413 I - I As happens from time to r 1 2a at the a Lsgation the afternoon of ore or not to neck privately 1with the Minister - one the ua-m' '1 1 1 13 that the Minister 1 1- 51 an Ea American who speaks some 1 'sith if he so desired i 13- His story as reference was as fol-1min lid 3 in his last year of medicn on 1 a 91115 a Phere has been continuing It 11 113 i tat-I feeling took active for on5l _ 1 I - @L ir ug At that time two or three viola 1 fouled at one Legation several small gro of It t to voice 1 11 11- complaints and to decide who or a 49 TL could so done hunt them These groups included of r-rarian and Ger-zen nationality as well as 'Bhe caller van 1653 meetings centered on the fol owing grievii ncee Insufficient allowances for food and bee-la it resent students have barely enough to keep from starving 2 12110 obligation that all students become proficient in Russian must be abolished and the teaching of Hmiam Lenimim rm b be limited to social science majors and not he forced on the professi ns 3 The secret police He believed that at lens I one of ten st dents at 01111 were forced to he informers or m were coaxed cajoled or scared into doing so we himself was a requested to turn informer ate 5 eighteen months ago with the promise that if he provided intere v infomation would have more money to spend He 3%th taken ad- vantage of this offer Students he conninugr sure a lie of terror There is no chance for an informal get-t to discuss anything Everything is controlled f 8 k3 1 t eps his routh ahu 33 DEC 9 Bi$ kiwi-m g As might have been expected he went on word 7 - _195$ protest meetings reached the authorities There '14 5 t I ACTION COPY DEPARTMENT OF STAL The action ems must return 1 111 permanent record copy to Dad-1 with an enactment of action taken 11 am '1 QILINIHW CONFIDENTIAL I I if EE 8 agents-a Com 6 a a a Esq of IQQFFIDENTIAL measnLagaiionjmharEst pap No up of students and some fifty were retained and severely beaten to make them give the names of other counter-re- Volutionaries re escaped the first arrears but feels certain that someone has broken under torture and his name is on a secret police list Fearing arrest he left the university an came to Bucharest where he 1as a etter chance of avoiding capture he came to the Legg icn to ask for help in Leaving the country as want- ad to geL into Lugoslavia -via someone's lu l e compartment if necessarg In answer is was told olenrii that this was impos ible In the brief 5 hsequent discussion nish followed he exp pande his earlier remarks on student unrest tc futlude the universities of Pimisoara iron Enron Bucharest and 1 31 he had heard that about 300 students It were arrested for hol iTg protest meetings He did not anon-how man were arrested at other universities but had heard that the nuzhert were consi arable At present reprisaia are continuing He expected that these recent outbreak of student unrest H111 result in greater repression As he put it so long as the resent loaders rule Bumsnia there is no hope of inprovum nt He and all Humanians- except the top tensions in the party were comlletely let down by the lack of purpbliful UN and U3 action in naary ihe students at Gluj had lnked on that help and hoped it would extend to humanil and the other satellites As an ironical aside he - est-d that the money now being spent on radio programs beams to eastern Europe might hatter be used in explaining to the American people how people live under Soviet domination After relieving him- self of this criticism he said he had to lease Before go- in he oaks 1 he might take one or two-of the paper-bound books at were on shelves in the Legationie reception room he chose two co ies of This Is America one copy of Rob Dick and was on his way When people call at the Legation on confidential business it is be1ieved that at least nine out of ten of them are plants In all such instances the calla is treated sym- pathetically hut ickly informed that the Legation can offer no assistance- on or otherwise The information preferred is listened to but there has been no attempt at questioning-- especially during this sensitive period See Minister Thayer's despatch No 210 of hovemher 27 1956 for a description of possible attempts at provaoation I The information received from this student is being trans- mitted mainly because it tends to confirm previOua reports of CDLFIDENTIAL graspanon 35 - I of student unrest anc describes stuuent grievances in fairly specific terms Whether or not tnis particular student was a plant his remarks are good commentary on the Rumanian of 11nd at tne present time For the Minister Second Secretary 'Legation i