CIA Reports on the Early Years of Communism in Romania (1946 – 1949)
Journal: Societate şi politică
Year: 2022

An institution created with the main purpose of ensuring adequate knowledge, substantiated in an integrated manner, of the threat the USSR represented both to the USA and to the free world in general, the CIA carried out a sustained activity in this direction. After the Second World War, Romania came completely under Soviet influence and became a Communist country fully aligned with the Moscow command. Declassified CIA documents on the early period of the Communist system in Romania highlight, f