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    (Romanian: Departamentul Securității Statului), commonly known as the Securitate (pronounced [sekuriˈtate], lit. "Security"), was the secret police agency...
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    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...
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    anti-communists and people who opposed the government's official policies. The Securitate ("Security") was the political police that was involved in repressing...
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  • of senior Securitate officers. The General Direction for the Security of the People, better known by its Romanian abbreviation, Securitate, was officially...
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    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...
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    National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives, supporting more openness regarding the files of the Securitate. Denis Patapievici, his father, moved...
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    Ion Mihai Pacepa (category Securitate generals)
    October 1928 – 14 February 2021) was a Romanian lieutenant general in the Securitate, the secret police of the Socialist Republic of Romania, who defected...
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    considered the most repressive in the Eastern Bloc. His secret police, the Securitate, was responsible for mass surveillance as well as severe repression and...
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    "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...
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    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...
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