Report Upon Rumania from Burton Y. Berry to President Harry S. Truman
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OCR Page 1 of 27BOD SECRET
THE UNITED STATES MISSION
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BUCHAREST, RUMANIA.
DECLASSIFIED
E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and S(D) or (E)
Dept of State letter, Aug. 9, 1973
By MLT. bc
a NARS Date 7-12-75
TO THE PRESIDENT
A REPORT UPON RUMANIA
from
Burton Y. Berry
Representative of the United States
In Rumania
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Rumania is a window through which we are able to
observe Soviet methods at work in a foreign land. As
it was the first window to be opened to the American
Foreign Service, we in this Mission have watched in-
tently and reported fully that the State Department
might have knowledge of the Soviet pattern applied to
Rumania, which often amounted to advance knowledge of
the Soviet pattern prepared for application in other
occupied countries. What we saw and what we may expect
to see is the basis of this report.
First of all we saw the Allied Control Commission
made an instrument of Soviet policy. Although Rumania
had surrendered to America, Great Britain and the Soviet
Union, the representatives of the Three Great Powers
forming the Allied Control Commission did not work as
equal partners for the purpose of administering the
country. Rather, the Soviet Chairman issued the orders
in the name of the Control Commission, while the American
and British Representatives were reduced to the role of
observers, frequently hearing first from the Rumanian
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