(Romanian: Departamentul Securității Statului), commonly known as the Securitate (pronounced [sekuriˈtate], lit. 'Security'), was the secret police agency...

believed the other to be Securitate ‘terrorists’. Although news reports at the time and media today will make reference to the Securitate fighting against the...

of senior Securitate officers. The General Direction for the Security of the People, better known by its Romanian abbreviation, Securitate, was officially...

new head of the Securitate. Voiculescu assured the Securitate agents that he does not intent to wage a war against individual Securitate officers and, by...

allegations of his supposed involvement with the Securitate: "I have not collaborated with the Securitate…in 1986 there was an attempt to recruit me. I refused...

National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives, supporting more openness regarding the files of the Securitate. Denis Patapievici, his father, moved...

Studies of the Archives of the Former Securitate), one in three Romanians was an informant for the Securitate. Due to this situation, income from tourism...

October 1928 – 14 February 2021) was a Romanian lieutenant general in the Securitate, the secret police of the Socialist Republic of Romania, who defected...

the Romanian public due to his alleged involvement as informant of the Securitate (Communist Romania's secret police). These allegations were never proven...

National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives (CNSAS), to check the ties he might have had with the Securitate before 1989. Following public outcry...

considered the most repressive in the Eastern Bloc. His secret police, the Securitate, was responsible for mass surveillance as well as severe repression and...

misdemeanors.[citation needed] Shortly after the establishment of the Securitate in August 1948, the Pitești Prison became a detention center for university...

"falsifying Fr. Boca's biography" by using second-rate accounts from a Securitate file, embellished by her own imagination. After World War II, he was arrested...

liberties and vigorously suppressed any dissent with the help of the Securitate—the Romanian secret police. During this period the regime launched several...

only one year following an amnesty. During October 1988-August 1989, the Securitate bodies raided his home several times and confiscated his "books and letters"...

intelligence agent and political assassin, who served as first head of the Securitate (1948–1958). Born as a subject of the Russian Empire in Tiraspol, he was...

liberation. Still others, mainly former officials, former members of the Securitate secret police, as well as sympathizers of the communist government, label...

the secret police, the Securitate, giving it information they received from confessions; according to the reports of a Securitate officer, as many as 80%...

keeping the bank's phone line busy. The case was investigated by the Securitate, Communist Romania's secret police, and the supposed perpetrators were...

His story is staged as Gianina Cărbunariu reconstructed it from his Securitate file; this material is interspersed with images of Romanian life taken...

Securitate, the security services of the communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu. However, Băsescu has claimed that his links with the former Securitate were...

defected Armed Forces fought bloody street battles, allegedly against Securitate forces who were still on Ceaușescu's side. The title of Supreme Commander-in-Chief...

consequently, Barbu and Tudor came under the attention of the Securitate. According to Ziua, a Securitate file of the time reveals that the two had begun questioning...

mother had asked the Securitate to keep an eye on the Ceaușescu children, perhaps she felt, out of a "sense of love". The Securitate "could not touch" the...

1992) was a Romanian communist activist, Soviet agent and officer, and Securitate chief under the Communist regime. Active until 1961, he was one of the...

champion Maria Butaciu, performer of folklore music Gianu Bucurescu [ro], Securitate officer Cornelia Catangă, singer Elena Ceaușescu, communist activist and...

built upon the Bucharest branch of the Socialist Republic of Romania's Securitate. Its main purpose was to subvert the opposition, particularly during the...

radiological weapon used against dissenters and critics by Nicolae Ceaușescu's Securitate. "Radu" is a Romanian name and in this context it is a reference to "radiation"...

Dumitru Burlan (born May 11, 1939) is a Romanian former Securitate officer. Dumitru Burlan was born on May 11, 1939, in Licurici, Gorj County, in a family...

years, in 2006 Voiculescu admitted having been a collaborator of the Securitate, Romania's communist-era internal intelligence service, after information...