How High Security Was at the End of Ceauşescu's Regime. Accurate Figures, Presented First by CNSAS
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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…
Nicolae Ceauşescu's security had nearly 15,000 employees in 1988. Documents first published by CNSAS show how the repressive apparatus was being divided and how many people were involved in spinning, intercepting and checking correspondence.
14,629 employees had Security at the end of the communist regime led by Ceauşescu, in September 1988, according to data published by the National Council for the Study of Security Archives (CNSAS). At the level of Constanta County there were 285 cadres, the largest number after Bucharest, according to CNSAS documents. It was followed by Timiș, Prahova, Cluj and Brașov. In Bucharest there were 557 cadres.
The exact figures on the size of the State Security Department at the end of the communist regime appear in documents dated 24 September 1988. According to the centralized data in documents in the A.C.N.S.A.S. Cab I.V.40 file, the Iulian Vlad Cabinet, the entire security apparatus numbered 14,629...
The figures published by CNSAS show how extensive the security apparatus was in the last year of the Ceauşescu regime. In September 1988, its structures numbered 14,629 employees, but women had a reduced presence, especially in the managerial functions.
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