Holocaust in Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

June 26) Gen eral Leoveanu , the ex-se nior director of the State Se cu rity(Siguaranta ) Office, who was sent to Iasi by Antonescu on July 2 to in ves ti -gate the dis tur bances which took place there, states—based on the press re -lease of Lieu ten ant-Col o nel C. Chirilovici , Po lice Su per in ten dent—thatthe de ci sion to im ple ment these mea sures was made on the morn ing ofJune 28.June 27, 1941The Po lice Su per in ten dent informs the Commander of the Gar ri son byphone that a group of Iron Guards gath ered in the Pacurari . district aresing ing Iron Guard march ing songs, and rabble-rousing. When ColonelLupu ar rives on the scene with a pla toon, he finds about thirty or fortyarmed Iron Guards led by two of fi cers in ci vil ian cloth ing: Ma jorsGheorghe Balotescu and Emil Tulbure . Two crates of weapons are alsofound in the pavilion. The Commander of the Gar ri son does no more thanas cer tain the facts, and fails to take any fur ther ac tion. He re turns to Head -quar ters, where within an hour the two majors also ap pear; they show thepa pers they re ceived from General Head quar ters, and say that they had in -tended to operate un der cover, but had not been suc cess ful.Lieu ten ant-Col o nel Traian Borcescu , a sec re tary at the Spe cial In for ma -tion Service (SSI), states that the two majors per son ally par tic i pated in theprep a ra tions for the massacre in Iasi, and adds that apart from them thefollowing SSI mem bers were also involved in the mas sa cre: GrigorePetrovici , Gheorghe Cristescu ( Eugen Cristescu’s brother), un der thecom mand of Director Flo rin Becescu-Georgescu .June, 27, 1941The at mo sphere in Iasi becomes more and more de press ing, all ac tiv ity isparalyzed. A large num ber of Christian in tel lec tu als and wealthy peopleleave Iasi . Many Chris tian houses are marked with a cross. Somekindly-dis posed Chris tians warn their friends to leave town.95