How High Security Was at the End of Ceauşescu's Regime. Accurate Figures, Presented First by CNSAS
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The National Council for the Study of the Archives of Security (CNSAS) published on Monday, first, a complete picture of the security dimension at the end of the communist regime. The repression apparatus of the communist regime had nearly 15,000 employees at the end of the 1980s, according to documents. The original documents, dated 24 September 1988, are found in a file from the Office of Iulian Vlad, ...
In the autumn of 1988, while Romania was suffocated by food shortages and international isolation, the apparatus of repression of the communist regime reached the organizational peak. Ultrasecret documents extracted from researchers of the National Council for the Study of Security Archives (CNSAS) from the cabinet file of the last head of security, Iulian Vlad, today create a clear picture of the state security department (DSS). On 24 September…
Security, the repression apparatus of the communist regime, officially called the State Security Department (DSS), had nearly 15,000 employees at the end of the 1980s, shows new documents published on Monday by the National Council for the Study of the Archives of the State (CNSAS). The original documents, dated 24 September 1988, are found in a file found at the office of the Chief of Security, General Iulian Vlad and shows the exact size of th…
The National Council for the Study of the Archives of Security (CNSAS) made public, on Mondays, unpublished data on the real size of Security at the end of the communist regime, September 24, 1988, and figures show that Cluj County was among the most heavily supervised areas of the country. The data appear in two tables classified at that time "secret narrow, coming from the file [...] Read How great was the apparatus of Security at Cluj at the …
These are the ones with papers, i.e. frames. The article does not mention anything of "suppliers", "suppliers". And believe me that there were many, with thousands even. That they were party secretaries, CI-isti or even more I know what doesn't matter anymore. They provided the "munition" for the regime, they were the vectors of terror every day. Some laugh at us in front and now. To quote one - don't be afraid that the old regime is coming back…
Security had 14,629 employees in September 1988, just over a year before the collapse of the communist regime. Nearly 6,000 were working in the territorial structures, and hundreds of people were only involved in wiretapping, intercepting conversations and controlling correspondence. The exact data, presented in the premiere by the National Council for the Study of Security Archives (CNSAS), come from documents dated ... The post Security Figure…
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