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

the other to be Securitate ‘terrorists’. Although news reports at the time and modern media often makes reference to the Securitate fighting against...

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...

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...

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...

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

subservience aimed at ensuring survival. Beyond limited access to the Securitate and Party archives as well as the short time elapsed since these events...

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

Securităţii în documente ("A History of the Securitate through Documents") Securiştii partidului ("The Party's Securitate Members") Serviciul de cadre al PCR...

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

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...

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

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

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

imperial policy in previously Romanian and now Soviet regions. Yet, the Securitate was still Dej's instrument of choice, and Romania joined the other Warsaw...

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

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

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...

2017) was a Romanian Communist politician, who served as Director of the Securitate from March 1978 to October 1987, and then as Interior Minister until the...

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...

Security and Intelligence Service (Romanian: Serviciul de Informații și Securitate, SIS) is a Moldovan state body specialized in ensuring national security...

investigator. From 1980 to 1984, he led the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Securitate, the secret service of Communist Romania. He was described by the New...

Richard Wurmbrand, also known as Nicolai Ionescu (24 March 1909 – 17 February 2001) was a Romanian Evangelical Lutheran priest, and professor of Jewish...

prison in 1963 he was constantly tailed by the Romanian secret police, the Securitate. Persuaded to use their perceived expertise in ethnocracy, Radu Gyr and...

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...

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...

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