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LBJ National Security Country Files - Romania

BOX 204 (part 1) - Browse documents HERE

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Folder 1 (69 documents) - July 1967 - September 1968 
Telegrams and CIA memos on a possible Soviet military threat to Romania. Documents on Romanian relations with China and Albania. Documents on the Romanian position on Vietnam, and an appeal to negotiate with the North Vietnamese on behalf of US crew of the seized USS Pueblo. Documents on the sale of a heavy water plant to Romania, and planned cultural and scientific exchanges. Documents detailing conversations on Vietnam. 


Folder 2 (107 documents) - July 1967 - September 1968  

Telegrams and a detailed CIA memo on possible Soviet military threat to Romania and contingency planning. Documents on Romanian relations with China and Albania. Documents on the Romanian position on Vietnam, and an appeal to negotiate with the North Vietnamese on behalf of US crew of the seized USS Pueblo. (Many documents are the same as folder 1)


Folder 3 (61 documents) - May 1967 - December 1968
Telegrams and memos regarding Romanian ambassador to the US transition, bilateral relations Highlights of a conversation between President Johnson, Prime Minister Maurer, and Foreign Minister Manescu in Washington. Intelligence Memo detailing Romania's independent nationalist course, national interests, and relationships with other communist states. Memoranda on civil aviation negotiations with Romania, and discussions on the Romanian trip to Vietnam. 


Folder 4 (1 document) - August 1967
Detailed CIA intelligence memorandum about the military aspects of Romania's independent policy within the Warsaw Pact.


Folder 5 (28 documents) - November 1968
Telegrams, US intelligence reports, and communiques on unsubstantiated rumors of a possible USSR invasion of Romania due to non-participation in the invasion of Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring reform movement. Documents on planned Warsaw Pact exercises in Romania. 
 

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Background Image: Production of tractors in Romania, circa 1963. https://www.azopan.ro/searchresults?filter=tractor|||180|||#17919|1963|en

About This Site

The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies in partnership with the University of Texas at Austin Libraries has been working on this digitization project since 2014. Our curated digitized collection of Cold War archives includes the Country Files for Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Albania from the National Security Files (NSF) collection from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library's archival collections. We will continue adding new content, including the country files for Hungary, Bulgaria, and the USSR, which are coming soon. Contributors to the creation of this website and the digitized collection include Dr. Mary Neuburger (director of the project), Ian Goodale, Dr. Tetiana Klynina, Alayna Parlevleit, Nick Pierce, Eliza Fisher, Sarth Khare, Nilcole Marino, Mary Rader, Esmeralda Moscatelli and students from the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies program at UT Austin. Images used on the site are sourced from the LBJ Presidential Library's online photo archive, Wikimedia Commons, and other sources as noted. The background collages on the main page and the country pages are mostly from the English-language Communist-era glossy magazines produced in the region, now housed in the UT Libraries and Dr. Neuburger's private collection.

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Home page image: Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin informs President Lyndon B. Johnson of the Soviet and Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 to crush the Prague Spring reformist movement. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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