CIA Reading Room cia-rdp82-00457r001800830011-3: SALE OF RUMANIAN PASSPORTS

_ _ 25X1A2g © \, CLASSIFICATION cmmipaniiiome | a Approved For RelgaisirA0(( (09/08 GLARRRG? 004570015005 teatime fly INFORMATI PORT COUNTRY Runenia | ; DATE DISTR. 8 Septenber 1943 SUBJECT Sele of Rumanian Passports CS DBATALNo. OF PAGES 25X1A6a This document is her Jentaie ac EE =e | cker of 25 October 1978 from De DATE, “F Diechor of Cant tats <=y'o tie PSUEPLEMENT TO 5p aye [Ohi of the United « REPORT NO. SOURCE .1. All applications for passports made by Rusanian citizens must be approved by an official of the Soviet “nbassy in Bucharest. &. A proportion of all amounts paid as bribes to obtain passports is handed to this Soviet official. These funds are changed into U. S. dollars and are ‘transferred to Turkey b, Raif Olgun, Comuercial Attache of the Turkish Legation in Bucharest, on his trips home. Olgun’s fee for this sorvice is 15 percent of the amounts transported.” Olgun reportedly does not know that the funds he handles are Soviot property. CLASSIFICATION #8088 [sire Xa [Xs bistmBUTION ea D4 RR SN Ol RRA Se RNP Approved For Release 2001/03/05 : CIA-RDP83°604 SF Date;