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	HU OSA 300-60-2
Fonds 300:	Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute
Subfonds 60:	Romanian Unit
Series 2:	RFE Confidential Reports on Romania

Date(s) 1971-1975

Extent and medium 3 Archival boxes, 0.38 linear meters

Scope and content

This series consists of limited distribution reports (analyses, studies, and interpretations), some of which were at that time considered strictly confidential and thus exclusively sent to the Director of the Romanian Broadcasting Department (RBD). Most of them originate from anonymized sources, but occasionally they had been produced by RFE’s regional News Bureaus (Paris, Vienna). The reports are part of the heritage of Noel Bernard, long-time director of the RBD; he had used them for policy making purposes and giving guidelines for broadcasters.

The topics reflected on in the reports are abundantly economic ones: five-year plans, fiscal policy, industrial branches, (especially Franco-Romanian) foreign trade. Occasionally, more sensitive issues are described: (re)defection, surveillance of foreign visitors, general state of spirit and morale in Romania.

System of arrangement

• Arranged chronologically

Language/scripts of material Romanian

Finding aids

• 3 containers

Related units of description

• HU OSA 300-60-1 Subject Files, 1946-1992
• HU OSA 300-60-3 Records Relating to Romanian Opposition and Protest Movement, 1977-1991

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed and described by Csaba Szilagyi on October 19, 1998; revised by Csaba Szilagyi on April 10, 2002
Online version updated 6 January 2012