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    "ocrText": "60\nSECRET\nit would be dangerous to discount this under-\ncow. Expansion of international service is\ntaking, which was based on a foundation of\nplanned.\nexisting automotive assembly plants.\nb. Telegraph.\n5. Telecommunications.\nThe telegraph system always has been un-\nder the Post Office Administration. While\nBy the standards of Western Europe, Ru-\nit covers about the same territory as the tele-\nmania's telecommunications facilities are\nphone system, it is in poor condition; much\npoor, and the supporting industry and tech-\nstation equipment is antiquated, and service\nnical training facilities are also limited. Pre-\nis poor. There is some dual use of lines by\nwar activities of the International Telephone\nthe telephone and telegraph companies to very\nand Telegraph Company advanced the de-\nsmall communities.\nvelopment of the network and Rumania's fa-\ncilities are better than is general in the Bal-\nThe Post Office Administration also oper-\nkans. Relatively little war damage was sus-\nates the few radio-telegraph stations in Ru-\ntained, 80 percent of which has been repaired.\nmania (there are no radio telephone stations).\nAll telecommunications were nationalized\nThere are low-power stations at Bucharest,\nearly in 1948. Under the present government,\nOradea, and Cluj, and even smaller stations\nthese facilities are completely at the disposal\nat Timisoara, Craiova, Alba Iulia, and Sibiu.\nof the armed forces, but SO far there has been\nOperation is manual. It is presumed that\nrelatively little interference by the military.\nthese stations are used for traffic to adjacent\ncountries. There is no indication of any plan\na. Telephone.\nto improve or expand the radio-telegraph fa-\nThe Rumanian Telephone Company (So-\ncilities.\ncietatea Anonima Romana de Telefoane, or\nSART) was owned, from 1931 to 1941 by the\nThe Rumanian Broadcasting Company has\nInternational Telephone and Telegraph Com-\nrecently been nationalized and important po-\npany, which completely rebuilt and modern-\nsitions are filled by Communist party mem-\nbers. The main station is the new Radio\nized the system according to American\nstandards. I. T. & T. also had made plans\nRomânia, a proposed 150 kilowatt, long-wave\nfor the future expansion of the system, but in\nstation being constructed at Tâncabesti and\n1941 it sold its interest to the National Bank\noperated by special cable from studios and of-\nof Rumania and withdrew its management.\nfices in Bucharest. Radio Bucuresti (a 12\nUnder new management, SART has continued\nkilowatt, medium-wave station), is located\nthe program set up by I. T. & T. Growth and\nnear Bucharest and is operated from the city.\nimprovement have continued, but at a re-\nThere are four lower powered, short-wave sta-\nduced rate, owing to labor unrest, material\ntions at Bucharest. Approximately 90 per-\ncent of the available time of these stations is\nshortages, and the recent influx of inefficient\npolitical appointees. In spite of this progress,\nutilized by the government for propaganda\nthe present telephone system is inadequate to\nfavoring Russia and the local Communist\nhandle the urban traffic demands. There is\ngovernment.\nonly about one telephone per 200 population,\nIn 1944 there were about 21 receiving sets\nand almost half of the country's approxi-\nper thousand population. This receiver-den-\nmately 125,000 telephones are located in Bu-\nsity is less than Mexico's and is only about\ncharest. The rest of the country is evenly,\n1/20th of that in the United States.\nif sparsely, covered. (See Map Supplement\nThe Ministry of National Defense has its\nIII.) The telephone company has always\nown fairly extensive telephone network (see\nprovided some international service. Before\nattached map). It leases circuits from the\nthe war it had but few circuits to adjoining\nPost Office Administration to form a telegraph\ncountries, except possibly Russia, and the\nnetwork, and has started to build up its own\nmajor European centers. Since the war, serv-\nradio network. These facilities are adequate\nice has been resumed to most of the countries,\nfor peacetime military needs, but must be sup-\nand there is at least one direct circuit to Mos-\nplemented by additional circuits from the\nSECRET"
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