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Romania Warsaw Pact
Departamentul Securităţii Statului · DSS
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Departamentul Securităţii Statului (Department for State Security)
(DSS), commonly known as the Securitate, was the secret police agency
of the Socialist Republic of Romania, during most of the
Cold War.
It was establised with help
from the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs
(MVD, later KGB)
on 30 August 1948 as the
General Directorate for the Security of the People (DGSP) [1].
Under president Nicolae Ceauşescu, 1 it was one of the most brutal secret
police forces in the world.
At its height, the Securitate had 11,000 agents 2 and 500,000 informants on a
population of 22 million [1].
It was responsible for the arrests, torture and deaths of thousands
of people. Like its sister organisations in other East European countries,
such as the Stasi (DDR),
the StB (Czechoslovakia)
and ÁVH (Hungaria), it kept
files on dissidents, placed them under surveillance and tapped their telephone
lines. The latter was the responsibility of General Directorate for Technical Operations,
that had been established in 1954 with help from the Soviet intelligence services.
The archives of the former Securitate are now publicly accessible – partly
online – via the
Romanian National Council for the Study of the Security Archives CNSAS
[3]. It also allows individuals to access their personal Securitate file.
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Nicolae Ceauşescu (26 January 1918 - 25 December 1989) was the last
communist leader of the Socialist Republic of Romania, from 1967 until
his overthrow in December 1989.
➤ Wikipedia
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In 1985 [1].
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