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Many times, the information received from the members of the teams were speculative
and they were collected from persons who did not necessarily have connections in the
circles of the power or of the army. 23 . The information produced by Luca Dumitrescu’s
teams were like: “Troop movements in Muntenia. (17 th of April). Through Braşov, a 10wagon
train with Romanian militaries (circa 50 people in the wagon) passed. The train
passed towards Predeal. A second lieutenant was noticed. The rest mostly consisted in
officers. They are believed to be from an officer-school” 24 .
The information gathered by Decebal-Corneliu Andrei through the “RăsleŃi Body” from
Bucharest did not manage to reach Austria, to the American special services. In late April
1948, Dragoş Hoinic left from Linz to Romania, possessing 620 dollars, sent by Vasile
Mailat, through the intermediary of Gogu Gheorghiu. He had likewise received verbal
and written information, sympathetic ink, as well as various addresses destined to Eugen
Teodorescu and Nicolae Petraşcu. They did not reach their addressees, as Hoinic was
arrested little after his illegal passage in Romania 25 . The entire information network fell
during the following weeks. Not only because Hoinic’s arrestment, but also because of
Eugen Teodorescu’s imprudence. He did not observe the rules of conspiracy and shortly
after his second arrival in Romania, the authorities discovered his presence in the country,
and also the information service in the Americans’ favour 26 . Following his track, the
Ministry of Internal Affairs also discovered Luca Dumitrescu’s network.
3. Conclusion
In conclusion, the including of Legionary movement in USA’s plans of “ideological
war” against Soviet Union shows that ex-wright wing extremist had an anti-communist
image after War World II. But the United States has avoided direct support Legionary
movement, like other political groups from Romania, fearing not to cause a diplomatic
conflict that would have jeopardized relations with the Soviet Union.
Legionary Movement relationship with the Communist Party had a predictable ending,
but without distinction to other political groups: the prohibition by the authorities and
arrested leaders and active members.
References
Original documents
1. Archives of the National Council for Studying the Security’s Archives, Fund Penal:
file no. 335, file no. 431.
2. Archives of the National Council for Studying the Security’s Archives, Fund
Informative: file no. 151086, file no. 181086, file no. 233979.
3. Romania’s National Archives – Direction Central Historical National Archives,
Fund Gendarmerie’s General Inspectorate: file no. 27/1947.
4. Romania’s National Archives – Direction Central Historical National Archives,
Fund Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party – Administrative
Political Department: file no. 4/1952.
Memoirs
1. Chioreanu, Nistor, Morminte vii [Living graves], Iaşi, Institutul European, 1992, 384 p.
23 Ibidem, f. 216-228.
24 Ibidem, f. 606-608.
25 Ibidem, loc. cit., file no. 335, vol. 2, f. 212-213.
26 Ibidem, Fund Informativ, file no. 233979, vol. 3, f. 165.