Istoria comunismului din România: documente 1 Perioada Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej (1945 - 1965)
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List of abstracts
1)
3rd of January,
1945,
Bucharest. The instruction given by the General Inspectorate
of the Gendarmerie to its territorial units regarding the internment of ethnic Germans to
be deported to the USSR.
2)
ie"1
of June,
1945,
Cluj.
Report by the Popular Union of the Hungarians of Romania
regarding the issues confronting the ethnic Hungarian minority in Transylvania.
3)
27th of September,
1945,
Sibiu.
The Gendarmes' Inspectorate in
Sibiu
reported to the
General Inspectorate of the Gendarmerie regarding the abuses committed by young
communists belonging to the Citizens' Guard against several ethnic Germans. The local
authorities asked the Public Prosecutor's Office to open an inquiry into the young
communists' activities by substituting themselves to the gendarmes.
4) 16*
of October,
1945,
Bucharest. Circular order of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Teohari Georgescu, to the prefects of the counties with German population regarding the
suspension of the agrarian reform for the Romanian citizens of German origin, in an attempt
to limit its ill-effects for agriculture.
5)
2nd-3rd of April,
1946,
Moscow. The records of the discussion between the leadership
of the CP (b) of the USSR
I.V.
Stalin,
V.M.
Molotov
and G.M. Malenkov, and leaders
of the Romanian Communist Party, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and Teohari Georgescu.
The document mentioned all the participants in the discussions by their coded names.
The main subjects discussed were linked to preparations for the parliamentary elections
in Romania. The document provided important information on the country's political,
economic and social situation: the nature of the relations within the communist-dominated
ruling coalition, the percentages that ought to be allotted to the parties forming the coalition
after the elections (the communists hoped that the governing block will win
70 - 75%
of
the votes); the RCP members who had been infiltrated in various other parties, of which
some were controlled directly by communists (as was the case of the Ploughmen's Front);
the Soviets'
1
million dollar support for the RCP's electoral campaign was supposed to
be exchanged on the Romanian "stock exchange" (i.e. the black market); the communists'
attempts to woo the Romanian peasants through populist measures; the still-open matter
of Northern Transylvania; Dej's request for the expulsion of the ethnic Germans from
Romania, a proposal Stalin rejected; Romania's economic situation; Stalin's decision, at
Dej's request, to handover to the Romanian authorities the members of the "Antonescu
lot" in order to be tried in Romania, etc.
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6)
May,
1946
[no specific date or place mentioned]. Self-criticism by
Kurkó Gyárfás,
the Chairman of the Popular Union of the Hungarians of Romania following a heated
party meeting led by Miron Constantinescu.
7)
13th of March,
1947,
Bucharest. The hand-written autobiography of Serghei Niconov
(Sergiu
Nicolau),
a Romanian Communist Party veteran from the underground period
who served as a Soviet agent in Western Europe and Romania between the two World
Wars. Arrested and subsequently convicted to hard labor for life, Niconov was incarcerated
in Romania between
1938
and
1944.
After the 23rd of August
1944
he was active in the
Patriotic Fighting Groups, in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, etc.
8)
22nd of March,
1947,
Bucharest. The personnel file of Serghei Niconov (Sergiu
Nicolau).
9)
24th of March,
1947,
Bucharest. Intelligence note from the army on the distribution
of American aid in Moldova and the anti-Communist manifestations of some discharged
officers.
10)
30th of September,
1948,
Bucharest. The meeting of the Council of Ministers during
which three decisions were passed: a reduction of prices for food and industrial goods;
various tax cuts and exemptions; the setting up of the Agency for Agricultural Machinery
Stations. The ambiance recorded by the document is suggestive of the meetings of the
Council of Ministers where the class struggle criteria was paramount in taking every
decision: goods at discounted prices will be sold through cooperatives to workers as well
as to poor and middle-class peasants, while members of other social strata would have
to pay higher prices for the same goods; the Agricultural Machine Stations [SMT] are
reserved for the aforesaid categories of peasants while selling agriculture machinery for
well-off peasants (i.e. kulaks) was prohibited. Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej sets up the essence
of his rural policy: the kolkhoz (i.e. the collective farm).
11)
6th of November,
1948,
[Bucharest]. Note on the state of mind among the believers
of various denominations (Orthodox, Greek-Catholics, Catholics, Reformed and Neo-
protestants) after the enactment of the new legislation on the religious faiths. It is likely
that the note comes from the Ministry of the Interior and contains relevant information
received from well-placed sources. The document caught the believers' mood during pre¬
parations to suppress the Greek-Catholic Church (the Decree No.
358
of December
1,1948),
as well as the tensions between the State and the Catholic Church as the latter refused
the new statute.
12)
25th of November
1948,
Bucharest. The meeting of the Central Committee of the
Romanian Workers' Party [PMR] during which the Ministry for Education was criticized
for removing religious icons from schools without prior consultation with the Party's
leadership. The decision caused turmoil especially in the rural areas.
13)
2nd of December
1948,
Bucharest The head of the Intelligence Service of the Romanian
Army reports to his superior on the discussions held with Lt-General K.S. Kolganov, the
head of the Soviet military advisers in the People's Republic of Romania, about the work
of the Romanian military espionage.
14)
8th of December,
1948,
Bucharest. Report on the Zionist problem in the People's
Republic of Romania. It makes proposals to ban some Zionist organizations and political
parties and to infiltrate some left-wing parties with members of the Romanian Workers'
Party.
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15)
17th of
December,
1948,
Bucharest. Note of the head of the Military Intelligence
Service on the discussions with the head of the Soviet military advisers in Romania, Gen.
K.S. Kolganov. The Soviet general was interested in the inquiries carried out by the Army's
Intelligence Service on charges brought against several Romanian officers who fought
on the Eastern Front; the visits by the British and American military
attachés
in Romania;
information about Yugoslavia; information about various subversive organizations and
the number of soldiers belonging to the neo-protestant faiths; information about food and
military training.
16) 1948
[no specific date], Bucharest. Characterizations of the Central Committee staff
of the Working Youth Union that was set up that same year on the model of the Romanian
Workers' Party, of the central apparatus of the Peasant Youth, of the Romanian Pupils'
Association, of the Romanian National Students'Association and of the members of the
Party's Youth Commission Bureau. Some of the most important and long-serving activists
on the Romanian political scene have been recruited from their fold.
17) 1948
[no specific date, towards the end of the year], Bucharest. Report of the
Organizational Directorate of the Central Committee of the Romanian Workers' Party
on the activity of former members or sympathizers of the traditional parties or of those
still tolerated, the legionnaires included. The authors of the report underlined the anti-
communist coalescing role of the religious denominations, the
résistance
groups and the
Titoists, while the role of the real or abusively called legionaries was overemphasized.
18)
19th of January,
1949,
Bucharest. Working debate by the leadership of the Ministry
of Internal Affairs [MAI] with the heads of the Directorate of the Penitentiaries on the
activity within the institution, the situation of security and discipline inside the peniten¬
tiaries. The Minister of Internal Affairs, Teohari Georgescu demanded personnel checks,
strengthening the discipline among the guardians
-
and among the convicts too
-
"in a
military fashion", drafting a new set of regulations, the re-education of the convicts by
using them as workers in workshops and farms.
19)
22nd of February,
1949,
Bucharest. Debate within the Ministry of Internal Affairs'
leadership on the measures to be taken by the Militia and the
Securitate
in overseeing the
confiscation of the remaining "large farmland" properties due to take place on March
2/3.
20)
2nd of March
1949,
Bucharest The meeting of the Ministry of Internal Affairs' leadership
that discussed the Zionist issue. It has been decided that the Zionist organizations were
pursuing "fascist goals" and the need to put forward measures to dissolve them, to track
down their members, to punish their foreign advisers, etc.
21)
3rd of March
1949,
Bucharest. Report for Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej on the activities
carried out by the anti-communist resistance group led by Lt- Col. Ion
Uta in
the moun¬
tainous region of
Banat
that had been liquidated by
Securitate
in February
1949.
22)
7th of March,
1949,
Suceava.
Report on the enforcement of the Decree No.83 of
March
2, 1949
on the confiscation of "large farmland" properties in
Suceava, Radauti
and
Câmpulung
counties. The document depicted the way in which the county confiscation
commissions had been set up, their activities, the kinds of goods that had been confiscated
and their destination, the rounding-up of the people that had been expropriated, a fact
that was beyond the provisions of the decree, as well as the mood in the localities where
the actions had been carried out. The report was drafted by
Radu
Dulgheru, an instructor
from the Central Committee of the Romanian Workers' Party dispatched from Bucharest.
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23)
14th of March,
1949,
Bucharest. Report of the Organizational Directorate of the
Central Committee on the enforcement of the Decree No.83 of March
2, 1949
on the
expropriation of estates larger than
50
hectars. The report detailed the preparations and
the on-going operation especially during the night of
2/3
March that resulted in the
confiscation up to that moment of
6,258
estates with
4,456
houses and the imposition of
mandatory assigned residence for
7,804
people (owners, their families and administrators).
24)
14th of March,
1949,
Bucharest. Minutes concluded after the meeting of the Ministry
of
Interaal
Affairs on the Zionist issue.
25)
ЗР'
of March,
1949,
Bucharest. Analysis done by the Organizational Directorate
of the Central Committee of the Romanian Workers' Party on the Romanian political mood
in February
1949.
Despite being written on an upbeat tone, the document revealed the popu¬
lation's negative reactions to several internal and external events such as the trial of Cardinal
Mindszenty in Hungary, the agricultural campaign, the rumors circulating at the time,
the subversive organizations that have been uncovered, religious manifestations, etc.
26)
10th of May,
1949,
Bucharest. The Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Roma¬
nian Workers' Party decides on various matters from the local
soviets,
to organizing several
trials against anticommunist partisans. The Secretariat decided on how to react to the
diplomatic row with Yugoslavia. The minutes revealed a normal meeting and were a testi¬
mony on the way in which political, economic and administrative matters were debated
as well as the way in which the decisions were made.
27)
11th of May,
1949,
Bucharest. The meeting of the Secretariat of the Central Committee
of the Romanian Workers' Party that ordered the repartition of the landlords' wealth, such
as farming tools, artworks, books, archives, furniture etc., that had been confiscated by
the Decree
83 /1949,
among the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Arts, the
Ministry of Agriculture and the State Committee for Provisions.
28)
25th of May
1949,
Bucharest. The meeting of the Council of Ministers in which the
construction, with Soviet involvement, of the Danube
-
Black Sea Canal was debated.
The operation was considered important both economically and ideologically. The minutes
of the meeting revealed other issues that have been discusses. They were was typical for
government meetings during the infancy of the Romanian communist regime.
29) 25*
of May,
1949,
Bucharest. The meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central
Committee of the Romanian Communist Party in which the Decision to construct the
Danube
-
Black Sea Canal was adopted. The project was supposed to be carried out with
the aid of a group of Soviet advisers. The same meeting adopted the decision on celebrating
Stalin's birthday.
30) 1949
[no precise date, before June
24],
Bucharest. Synthesis of reports on several
forms of resistance to the party's atheistic policies by believers of various denominations,
especially Catholics, neo-protestants and the Orthodox
dissidence
from the Lord's Army
(i.e.
Oastea Domnului)
during January, February, March of
1949.
31)
21st of July,
1949,
Bucharest. The Minister for Industries, Chivu
Stoica,
requested
the Central Committee of the Romanian Workers' Party to ask the government of the USSR
to send to Romania some technical advisers needed by the Romanian side.
32)
22nd of July,
1949
[no precise place]. Report on the situation at Sovromtractor factory
in
Braşov.
The party's informant indicated the shortcomings of the factory's managing
828
director,
including the fact that he does not take into account the opinions of the Soviet
adviser.
33)
22nd of July,
1949,
Bucharest. The Council of Ministers approved the draft of the
decree on the confiscation of the wealth of those charged with crimes against the state
security or against the national economy.
34)
25th of July,
1949,
Suceava.
The chief of the
Suceava
Region Security informed the
General Directorate of the People's Security on the revolt in the Vorniceni village, county
of Dorohoi, that was crashed by the
Securitate
and the Militia.
35)
28th of July,
1949,
Bucharest. Organizational Directorate of the Central Committee
of the Romanian Workers' Party expressed its concern on the concentration of a large
number of former landlords in several cities, through mandatory assigned residences and
on the problems created by Macedonian and Bessarabian colonists in the
Banat
region.
One could foresee their displacement.
36)
4th of August,
1949,
Bucharest. Report by the Commission of the Secretariat of the
Romanian Workers' Party on the strike of the
Brăila
Harbour workers (August
1)
who
were unhappy with the massive redundancies. The workers were sacked and then reinstated
with lower wages. The report stressed the "anti-revolutionary character" of
Brăila
Harbour
workers' strike.
37)
6th of August,
1949,
Bucharest. Note on the disagreements between the Commander
of the First Military Region and the Soviet adviser during military maneuvers.
38) 10*
of August,
1949,
Bucharest. Synthesis on the events that took place during August
8
and
9,1949
within the areas covered by the
Arad, Oradea,
Satu
Mare and
Suceava
Military
Commandments where large peasants revolts had just taken place. Several people were
killed while others were deported. The document revealed the massive deployment of
Securitate
and Border Guards forces used to crash the revolt.
39)
12th of August,
1949,
Bucharest. Operational note of the Ministry of Internal Affairs'
forces on the situation in the regions of
Arad, Oradea,
Satu
Mare and
Suceava
Single Military
Commandments in the aftermath of the peasants' revolt against mandatory grain quotas.
40)
7th of September
1949,
Bucharest. The Romanian Embassy in Moscow informed
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs [MAE] on the USSR Ministry of Higher Education's repar¬
tition of the Romanian students and post-graduates who were supposed to study in various
Soviet universities and research institutes.
41)
[7th of September,
1949,
Bucharest] Table with the repartition by academic branches
of the
571
students and
247
post-graduates who were supposed to study in the USSR.
42)
16th of September,
1949,
Bucharest. Meeting of the Politburo of the Central Com¬
mittee of the Romanian Workers' Party on the tensions between various ministries and
the General Directorate for the Danube
-
Black Sea Canal generated by the poor mana¬
gement of the resources, lack of skilled personnel etc.
43)
29th of September,
1949,
Bucharest. Meeting of the Farming Commission of the
Central Committee of the Romanian Workers' Party that debated the strengthening of the
political control within Machinery and Tractor Stations [SMT] as well as within the state-
owned farms. The document revealed the central role of Soviet advisers in establishing
the party's strategy on agricultural matters.
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44)
6th of October,
1949,
Bucharest.
Securitate
report on the peasants' revolt in Rogojesti
village, Radauti County, against the collection of the harvest quotas in the field and against
collectivization. During the revolt several party activists and the local militiaman were
wounded. Several peasants were arrested and bundled together and one put forward the
proposal to put them on trial as a lot.
45)
26th of October,
1949,
Bucharest. The document is a radiography of the state apparatus
(the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, ministries,
Securitate,
Militia, penitentiaries,
local administration, etc.) from the point of view of their social origin, PMR membership,
position held before and after
23
August
1944
etc. The document revealed the commu-
nization of the administration of the People's Republic of Romania. The percentage of
party members within ministries varies from
14.8%
(Ministry of Agriculture) to
75.7%
(Ministry for Foreign Affairs). The recently created General Directorate of the People's
Security had
4,336
employees out of which
94.3%
were party members (the percentage
for on-duty staff was
98.4%)
46)
16th of November,
1949,
[Bucharest]. Report drafted by Gheorghe
Rosu,
a Central
Committee of the Romanian Workers' Party's instructor on the party's work in
Vaslui
County: the activity of collective farms; the local Machinery and Tractors Station; analysis
of the social and political-administrative situation in the region of
Pungesti.
47)
29th of December,
1949,
Bucharest. Statistical data split on social, ethnic and profes¬
sional criteria of the employees of the Central Section for Propaganda and Agitation of
the Central Committee of the Romanian Workers' Party led by Leonte
Răutu.
Table with
the members of the various structures of the Propaganda and Agitation Section. The statute
of functions of the Party's History Institute and the "I.V.Stalin" Permanent Exhibition.
48) 1949
[no precise date], Dragomiru Village, County
Romanaţi.
Note drafted by a
Romanian Workers' Party activist regarding the peasants' attitude towards the collective
agriculture farm.
49)
9th of January,
1950,
Bucharest. The adoption of several important decisions on
reorganizing the Romanian Army in accordance with the Soviet model that demanded,
on the one hand, more Soviet military advisers and, on the other hand, training Romanian
military personnel in the USSR
(320
cadets and officers). The role of the party in the
army was increased by relocating party personnel from the party active to the National
Defence Ministry. One put forward several measures for reorganizing the military espionage
and counter-intelligence by involving the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Ministry for
Foreign Trade.
50) [1950,
mid-January], Bucharest. A region- by- region situation of "kulaks" and
"middle-class" peasants that have been displaced during
1949.
51)
ЗО"1
of January,
1950,
Bucharest. Draft decision of the Central Committee of the
Romanian Workers' Party on the nationalization of the urban houses. The criteria for
nationalization were established. The Central Committee decided to setup a central com¬
mission and several local commissions for the implementation of the decision. The ope¬
ration was kept secret and the Minister of Interior, Teohari Georgescu was put in charge
of its implementation, until May
1,1950.
52) 1950
[March, approx], Bucharest. A rather confused report, but with clear nationalist
tendencies none-the-less, drafted by an anonymous Orthodox cleric and sent to the party
leadership about the Church's links with the
Securitate,
the Militia and the Party, the real
830
or imaginary pressures that the Church was subjected to as well as the collaboration between
some clerics and the institutions of repression.
53)
19th of April,
1950,
Bucharest. Note on the Soviet involvement in building
Scânteia
House in Bucharest.
54)
19th of April,
1950,
Bucharest. Decree for the confiscation of some houses in accor¬
dance with the criteria established and approved by the members of the
Politbureau
of
the Central Committee of the Romanian Workers' Party.
55) 1950
[before May
8],
Bucharest. Decision by the Central Committee of the Romanian
Workers' Party on drafting the youths in the army and the involvement of the party's county
and city-level committees, of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, of the Ministry of the Armed
Forces with an emphasis on the indoctrination of the youths with communist values and
loyalty towards the USSR.
56)
19th of June,
1959,
Bucharest. In March
1950,
the
Securitate
Regional Office in
Oradea
arrested
19
Greek-Catholic monks and nuns in the area of
Baia Mare
for refusing
to convert to Orthodoxy and for "instigating" the population to return to the Greek-Catholic
Church, banned by the authorities.
Securitate
decided their internment in Labor Units as
it did not have enough evidence to have them stand trial.
57)
12th of August,
1950,
Bucharest. Report by the Bucharest
Securitate
branch on the
mood of the inhabitants of the capital and the surrounding villages during a two weeks span
in the summer of
1950
split on social strata (peasants, workers, civil servants and army per¬
sonnel), ethnic origin (Jews, Germans, Yugoslavs) and faith (Catholics and neo-protestants).
58) 1950
[approx. September
-
October], [Bucharest]. Hand-written statement by
I.A.
Fructman
(Frunza
Vasile), a Soviet political activist who had been transferred to
"Horia,
Cloşca
and
Crişan"
Division, a military unit formed in the USSR with Romanian prisoners.
Fructman settled in Romania in
1945
while working for the Romanian Army.
59)
21st of November,
1950,
Bucharest. The decision by the Ministry of Internal Affairs
on extending the detention of a political prisoner in the Labour Units to
6
months.
60)
29th of December,
1950,
Bucharest. Report drafted by Simon Iuliu for the Justice
Sector of the Central Committee of the Romanian Workers' Party on the activity of
magistrates and lawyers from the
Suceava
and
Botoşani
regions. The party activist put
forward
de
proposal that increasing the control over the personnel of the justice system
"would insure a just class policy" and thus create the conditions for the courts to reach
"just decisions in the spirit of the class straggle".
61) 1950
[no precise date], Bucharest. Abuses of power committed by the local admi¬
nistration against "kulaks" amid the confiscation of their wealth: confiscation of land for
completing the surfaces needed by collective agricultural farms; taking over household
goods; force the "kulaks" to leave their localities, etc. The confiscations had been ordered
by provisional communal committees, by local party organizations, by the
Securitate,
by
the Militia, by the Public Prosecution Offices and Tribunals. The criteria set up by the
party-state itself have been blatantly breached. However, the majority of the abuses were
confirmed in the kulaks' case.
62) 1950
[no precise date], Bucharest. The plan for filling the Army's Superior Political
Directorate with party activists presented to the Central Committee of the Romanian
831
Workers Party by
Emil Bodnăraş
and Nicolae
Ceauşescu
during the final stages of the
Party's drive to take control of the Army.
63) [1950,
after April
5],
Cluj.
A list with the names of
13
detainees, members or sup¬
porters of partisans' groups, who had been sentenced to
15
years of imprisonment or hard
labor for life on crime and conspiracy charges. The detainees were taken by the
Securitate
from the
Cluj
Tribunal's penitentiary between April
2-5,·1950.
According to one hand¬
written note, the prisoners have been executed, probably the day they were taken by the
Securitate.
64) 1950
[no precise date], Bucharest. Report on the individual appraisal of the members
of the of the Working Youth Union [UTM] and on the of the Working Youth Union's
overhaul following the purging pattern applied within the Romanian Workers' Party. UTM's
mechanisms for controlling the youth were put in place, one of the Union's objectives
being to deliver members, leaders and activists to the Party.
65)
[approx
1950].
The Nomenclature of the Romanian Workers' party, the Trade Unions,
the Union of the Working Youth, the Ploughmen' Front, the Federation of Small Craftsmen,
the Hungarian Popular Union, the Union of the Democratic Women of Romania, the
committees of the ethnic minorities.
66)
5th of January,
1951,
Bucharest. Party membership statistical data split on gender,
ethnicity, social background and parents' occupation. The document contained information
on the membership number of some mass organizations such as the Unions, the Union
of the Working Youth, the Ploughmen' Front, the Federation of Small Craftsmen, the
Hungarian Popular Union, of the Union of the Democratic Women from Romania.
67)
20th of February,
1951,
Bucharest. The General Directorate of the Militia analyzed
the situation of the "displaced people" in the
Medgidia, Constanţa Hârşova,
Baia
and
Băneasa
districts of the
Constanţa
region, as well as in
Macin
and Tulcea districts,
Galaţi
region. One put forward the proposal for the deportees' families to be "reunited together"
in the localities of deportation by tracking down the family members that were still in
their localities of origin.
68)
25th of February,
1951,
Bucharest. A detailed situation report on the partisan groups
and isolated runaways on whom
Securitate
had information.
69)
2nd of March,
1951,
Bucharest. A table with the members and standing members
of the Central Committee of the Union of the Working Youth (name, surname, profession,
the date of joining the party-youth organization, previous political responsibilities, present
position within the Union of the Working Youth)
70)
6th of March,
1951,
Bucharest. Detailed measures adopted by the Ministry of Internal
Affairs' leadership regarding the "dislodgement of dangerous elements" from a
25
Ion
deep zone situated near the Yugoslav border.
71)
24th of March,
1951,
Bucharest. Report by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the
Central Committee of the Romanian Workers' Party on the abuses and errors committed
during "dislodgement" operations against kulaks and "middle-class" peasants in Bucharest,
Teleorman
and
Ialomiţa
regions carried out in the summer of
1950.
One put forward
measures for the return of some families or persons and the deportation of those who
evaded "the vigilance" of the
Securitate
and Militia.
832
72)
4th of April
1951,
Bucharest. Note on the presence, activity and problems faced by
the Soviet advisers in the Ministry of Food Industry.
73)
20th of April
1951,
Bucharest. The agreement of the Central Committee of the Romanian
Workers' Party Secretariat to request Moscow a Soviet adviser about Mail and Telecom¬
munication matters.
74)
23rd of April
1951,
Bucharest. Report that acknowledged the hostile reaction of the
population from the villages in
Videle
district,
Teleorman
County following the "dislod-
gements'Of
1950.
75)
10th of May
1951,
Bucharest. Administrative decision of the Ministry of Internal
Affairs to send
69
people in Labour Units for periods varying from
6
to
24
months.
76)
29th
- 30*
of May
1951,
Bucharest. Speech delivered by
Ana Pauker
at the meeting
with the first secretaries and the secretaries responsible with farming matters from
29-30
May
1951
on achieving harvest quotas and the difficulties that appeared inside
the first collective farms.
Ana Pauker
criticises the abuses committed during the first phase
of collectivization and demands that the emphasis should be places on convincing the
peasant to join willingly the cooperatives. At the same time,
Ana Pauker
underlines that
in agriculture there is no alternative to collectivisation.
77) 6*
of June
1951,
Bucharest. Instructions by
Securitate
for the implementation of
the decision of the Central Committee of the Romanian Worker's Party and of the Council
of Ministers regarding the farming products' collection. A major role was to be played
by the intelligence networks in the villages that will be particularly oriented on monitoring
the "kulaks".
78)
21st of June
1951,
Bucharest. Administrative decision of the Ministry of Internal
Affairs on sending three people to Labour Units for
24
months.
79)
18th of August
1951,
Bucharest.
Securitate
bulletin on the mood in rural arias
(Arad,
Argeş, Baia Mare, Bârlad, Bihor, Botoşani, Buzău
and Bucharest regions) following the
implementation of the new regime for the collection of farming goods.
80)
25th of December
1951,
Bucharest. The death sentence for "high treason against
the motherland" and "conspiring against the foreign security of the People's Republic of
Romania" passed against the "paratrooper" lot of
Constantin Săplăcan,
Mathias Bohn,
Wilhelm Spindler
and Hie Puiu.
81)
15th of April
1952,
Bucharest.
Aproposal
to detain the "kulak" priest Gheorghe Frun-
telată
based on a criminal case opened for "spreading rumours", "unfriendly mani¬
festations", "instigating against collective farms" and "calumnies against the leaders of
the USSR". The arrest is approved by
Al. Nicolschi.
82)
19th of April
1952,
Bucharest. Report by
Constantin Pîrvulescu
from the Central
Committee of the Romanian Workers' Party's Control Commission on the abuses com¬
mitted in
Galaţi
Region against the peasants during grain collections and against small
traders from the cities of
Galaţi
and
Brăila.
The abuses have been supervised by Mihai
Gavriliuc, who was endorsed by the Central Committee of the Romanian Workers' Party
and by the government, with the involvement of local Militia,
Securitate
and party activists.
(One puts forward various punishments against those considered guilty, ranging from "vote
of blame" and "written admonition" to dismissal or being placed under criminal inquiry).
833
83)
5th of May
1952,
Bucharest. The personnel file of Gheorghe
Apostol,
Romanian
Communist Party member during the time when the party was illegal.
84)
5th of May
1952,
Bucharest. The personnel file of Alexandra
Bârlădeanu,
Minister
for Foreign Trade containing information on his activities and leadership training in the
USSR prior to his return to Romania in
1946.
85)
3rd of June
1952,
Bucharest. The Politburo of the Central Committee of the Romanian
Workers' Party approves the measures for insuring the safety of its members: around-
the-clock bodyguards and home surveillance, the creation of a common food supply facility,
travel by armoured cars.
86)
[June, after 21st]
1952,
Bucharest. A synthesis of the main events occurred between
11th and 20th June
1952
selected and presented by
Securitate
to the party leadership: the
mood of the population split on social strata (workers, peasants and clerks) and of the armed
forces from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of the Armed Forces, the reasons
for various kinds of resentment, defections, sabotages, "bandits' apprehension" etc.
87) 11
th of July
1952,
Bucharest. The Ministry of Internal Affairs' administrative decision
to extend up to
24
months the term for detention in labour units for
61
people.
88)
5th of August
1952,
Galaţi.
Note of
Galaţi
Regional
Securitate
office for the General
Securitate
Directorate about the recruitment as an informer of Victor
Durbaca
from Victoria
village,
Călmăţui
commune.
Durbaca
was a "part-time" teacher, on the run since
1947
as he was afraid to be arrested after a private conflict with the local mayor.
89)
October [approx 10tb
-
13th],
1952,
[no precise location, most likely Bucharest].
Äreport
drafted by
Securitate Gen.
Vladimir
Mazura
on sizing several air-droped agents
in Gorj and
Timişoara
regions.
90)
20th of October
1952,
Bucharest. The Central Committee of the Romanian Workers'
Party set out measures to end arbitrary arrests and to stop the habit of keeping the convicts
in prison after they served the time. The decision shifts the relations between the party,
on one hand, and the
Securitate,
Militia and the Public Prosecution Office, on the other.
The first secretaries from the regions and raions as well as the chairmen of local
soviets
were banned to interfere with
Securitate
and Public Prosecution Office's actions. At the
same time, the Central Committee of the Romanian Workers' Party decided that party
members and experts from factories and institutions may be arrested only with the approval
of the secretaries of the party's regional committees, while the members of the communist
nomenclature and "well known" specialists may be arrested only with the approval of a
Central Committee secretary.
91)
15th of January
1953,
Bucharest. The Government of People's Republic of Romania
and the Central Committee of the Romanian Workers' Party decided measures for insuring
the safety and security of the party and state leadership: the Ministry of the State Security
that has been set up in September 20th
1952
was the sole responsible for insuring it.
92)
17th of February
1953,
Bucharest. Report on the problems faced by the Propaganda
and Agitation Section from the Iasi regional party committee in recruiting and promoting
arts and culture activists.
93)
20th of February
1953,
Bucharest. Decision of the Hungarian Popular Union for
voluntary disbandment in order "to strengthen the fighting unity of the entire working
people".
834
94)
3rd of April
1953,
Bucharest. Note from the Central Press Sector warning against
the "acts of sabotage" taking place within
Casa Scânteii
Printing House that allow typing
mistakes "of inimical nature" to be printed in newspapers.
95)
11th of April
1953,
Bucharest. The list of the Central Committee of the Romanian
Workers' Party's unpaid lecturers drafted by the Propaganda and Agitation Section. The
table contains the names of
74
people, the core team from the "ideological front", some
of whom will enjoy a long career within the party and the state's institutions.
96)
Util of June
1953,
Bucharest. The Central Committee of the Romanian Workers'
Party has decided to transfer the Central Archive of Central Committee of the Romanian
Workers' Party from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the Party's History Institute.
97)
8th
-
14th of July
1953,
Moscow. Romanian
-
Soviet bilateral talks in Moscow focus-
sed on Romania's development plan. The Soviet delegation recommends the Romanian
communists to give-up plans to invest in heavy and defence industries and to give-up
the construction of the Danube
-
Black Sea Canal. The leadership of the Romanian Workers
Party is advised alternatively to raise the living standards by increasing investments in
the consumer goods industry and in agriculture to prevent social unrest. The Soviet leaders
remind the leadership in Bucharest that: "without our support you would not last a
forthright". Following the Soviet criticism, the Romanian delegation amended the main
indicators of the economic development plan.
98)
2nd of September
1953,
Bucharest. The meeting of the Propaganda and Agitation
Section of the Central Committee of the Romanian Workers' Party chaired by Leonte
Răutu
and attended by the editors-in-chief of the national newspapers. The meeting looked for
measures to counter Western propaganda against the Romanian communist regime.
99) 1953
[approx August
-
September], Bucharest. Report by the Minister for Cults
Petre Constantinescu Iaşi
for the party leadership on the interest expressed by the parti¬
cipants at the World Youth Festival for Romania's religious life and the measures that
have been implemented in Bucharest to convince foreigners about religious freedom in
People's Republic of Romania.
100)
2nd of October
1953,
Bucharest. The Agitation Sector of the Central Committee
of the Romanian Workers' Party informs on the propaganda actions that have been carried
out in the province during August
-
September
1953
on the occasion of the International
Youth Festival, the signing of the Korean armistice, the testing of the Soviet hydrogen
bomb and the farms' collectivisation.
101)
19th of January
1954,
Bucharest. The meeting of the Politburo that approves the
Soviets' proposal for the repayment of shares in several sovroms and the opening of
negotiations for handing the control over four more sovroms (Sovromtractor, Sovromchim,
Sovrommetal, Sovromlemn) to the Romanian party.
102) 16*'·
of February
1954,
Bucharest. Order of the Minister of the Armed Forces,
Emil
Bodnäras,
regarding the delegation of attributions towards his deputies, generals Nicolae
Ceauşescu,
Leontin
Saläjan,
Gheorghe
Ştefanescu,
loan Eremia and Alexandra Gavrilescu.
103)
27th of February
1954,
Bucharest. Debates within the Politburo on Romania's acqui¬
sition of the shares owned by the USSR in
8
sovroms and
5
textile factories. The meeting
debated the specific problems at Sovrom
Kvarţit,
an important company for the Soviet's
835
exploitation
of
uranium.
The Politburo decided that Greek citizens that took refuge in
the People's Republic of Romania may leave the country.
104)
12th of June
1954,
Bucharest. Situation with the number of resistance partisan groups
that have been exposed by
Securitate
between January
1953
and June
1954.
105)
1st of September
1954,
Bucharest. The decision by the Central Committee of the
Romanian Workers' Party to restructure regional and central party schools.
106)
28th of September
1954,
Bucharest. The Politburo adopted the decision for the
conditional release, after two years of detention, of an unspecified number of party activists
that have committed abuses against the peasants during the collectivisation. The subor¬
dination of the
Securitate,
the Public Prosecution Office and the Council of Minister to
the Politburo is obvious.
107) 1955,
[approx January], Vladimiresti
(Galaţi
Region). The letter of priest loan
lovan
addressed to the Patriarch and the Holly Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church
defending him and the Vladimiresti Monastery from the accusations brought against the
monastery's practices. In agreement with all the clerics from the Monastery, loan
lovan
accused the leadership of the Romanian Orthodox Church of subordinating the church
to the interests of the communist state.
108)
5th of March
1954,
Bucharest. The official opening form for the individual file on
Monica Lovinescu in which Securitate's First Directorate (Foreign Intelligence) decided
to use the strong bonds between Monica Lovinescu and her mother, Ecaterina
Bălăcioiu,
in order to recruit her in France.
109)
15th of April
1955,
Bucharest. Report drafted by Lt-Col.
Wilhelm
Einhorn
from
the Displacement and Mandatory Assigned Residence Service for the Ministry of Internal
Affairs' command about the infiltration of informants in the
18
"special localities" from
Bărăgan
where the "displaced" population and those with forced domicile have been sent.
The recruitment methods
-
pressure and blackmail
-
are being revealed. At the same time
one revealed the close surveillance that the population from these localities have been
subjected to: the strict control of the mail as well as the
incrimination
of all the contacts
with the outside world.
110)
11th of May
1954,
Bucharest. Note of the commandment of the Penitentiaries, Camps
and Settlements Directorate for the Ministry of Internal Affairs' leadership regarding the
prisoners that died in the prisons of Sighet (where a part of the Romanian inter-wars political
elite has been incarcerated) and Rimnicu Satat where no death certificates have been issued
but just record certificates.
111) 18th of May,
1955,
Sighetu Marmatiei. The Commander of Sighet Main Penitentiary,
Vasile
Ciolpan,
reported to the Penitentiaries, Camps and Settlements Directorate on the
implementation of the party orders on political prisoners detained in Sighet that led to
the breach of the legislation.
112)
22nd of May
1955,
Bucharest. The autobiography of Grigore Kotovschi, from Bes¬
sarabia, member of the Union of the Communist Youth and the Romanian Communist
Party before the WWII, a volunteer in the International Brigade in Spain, that took refuge
in the USSR and subsequently joined the Red Army in
1941
as political officer in the
„Horia,
Cloşca
and
Crişan"
Division. He returned to the Red Army until
1948.
Kotovschi
came back to Romania in
1949
and subsequently worked with the Zhdanov School,
836
affiliated to the Propaganda and Agitation Section of the Central Committee of the
Romanian Workers' Party.
113)
4th of June
1955,
Bucharest. The handwritten declaration of Lt. Major Vasile
Ciolpan,
the commander of the Sighet Main Penitentiary acknowledging that, by the orders of the
Party and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the prisoners' death certificates have not been
properly issued and their death has been therefore kept secret. V.
Ciolpan
expressed his
pride in fulfilling the mission given by the Party and the Government.
114)
6th of June
1955,
Sighetu Marmatiei. Minutes of the Ministry of Internal Affairs'
inquiry commission on the breaching of "people's legality" by Lt. Major Vasile
Ciolpan,
the commander of Sighet Main Penitentiary between
1950
and
1955:
the absence of the
legally-required records of the prisoners that died during that period of time; seizing goods
as well as food from the prisoners, etc. One set measures to improve the situation in this
"special prevention" penitentiary.
115) 1955
[before July
27*],
Bucharest. Report following an analysis of the situation
of
8,850
"displaced" families from the Yugoslav border and housed in the
18
"special"
villages in Bucharest,
Galaţi
and
Constanţa
regions. The document put forward the proposal
to lift the sentence for
3,692
families. The report set up the criteria on which the restrictions
would be lifted and mentioned
513
cases of families that have been "abusively" displaces.
116)
27th of July
1955,
Bucharest. The Ministry of Internal Affairs' decision for lifting
"domiciliary restrictions" for
3,692
"displaced" families from the Yugoslav border region.
However, only
513
families were allowed to return to their previous homes as the others
were banned to return to the border aria or to Bucharest.
117) 16*
of December
1955,
Bucharest. Decree by the Presidium of the Grand National
Assembly that transfered some goods
-
property of the Ministry of Armed Forces
-
into
the family property of the Soviet adviser Lt-Col. N.N. Covaliov.
118)
20th of December,
1955,
Bucharest. Decision by Ministry of Internal Affairs fol¬
lowing a decision by the Council of Ministers for the annulment of "domicile restrictions"
for "displaced" people from the Yugoslav border aria (with the exception of large farmland
owners, large industrialists and traders). The decision also allowed the "displaced" to return
to their original domicile.
119)
IO"1
of January
1956,
[Oradea].
A letter addressed to
Petre Constantinescu-Iaşi
by the Bishop of
Oradea,
Valerian that denounced the attitude of the Patriarch and the
Holly Synod on the matter of
Vladimireşti
Monastery and other monasteries that the author
labelled as "reactionary".
120)
4th of May
1956,
Bucharest. Report on the acknowledgement of the illegal nature
of the administrative measures taken by the Ministry of Internal Affairs between
1948
and
1954
to send some categories of people in Labour Units. The report reminded the
measures that have been taken between
1954
and
1956
for the "reinstatement of law".
121)
ІЗ*1'
of June
1956,
[Bucharest].
Securitate
order on the measures to be taken for
centralizing the data held by local
soviets
and
Securitate
on the prisoners that died in
penitentiaries.
122)
IO"1
of July
1956,
Bucharest. Proposal to recruit Monica Lovinescu given her con¬
nections with the leaders of the Romanian emigration and intellectuals in France. Following
837
the analysis of the intercepted correspondence, during the recruitment attempt
Securitate
intended to use Monica Lovinescu's close ties with her mother Ecaterina
Bălăcioiu.
123)
10th of July
1956,
Bucharest. Securitate's plan to use one of its agents from its Paris
agency to contact Monica Lovinescu under the pretext of solving Ecaterina
Bălăcioiu's
visa request, for repatriation or her recruitment in France.
124)
ЗО"1
of October
1956,
[Timişoara].
Handwritten
mémoire
containing
Timişoara
students' demands issued amid the Hungarian Revolution.
125)
9th of November
1956,
Bucharest.
Securitate
action plan to gather information on
the people that were contact or used to be in contact with Monica Lovinescu and Virgil
Ierunca.
126)
17th of November
1956,
Bucharest. During the investigations on Monica Lovinescu
and Virgil
Ierunca, Securitate
identified the people with whom it managed to establish
some contacts through Ecaterina
Bălăcioiu. Stelian
Diaconescu (Ion Caraion) was one
of them.
127)
23rd of November
1956,
Bucharest. Meeting of the Central Committee of the
Romanian Workers' Party territorial instructors from the Party Institutions' Section where
one presented the reaction
vis-à-vis
the Hungarian Revolution of some social categories
as well as of the Union of Working Youth and of the Romanian Workers' Party members.
The meeting also discussed the measures taken in several regions across Romania
(Suceava,
Cluj,
Autonomous Magyar Region and
Baia Mare)
and put forward plans for purges within
the Union of Working Youth and the Romanian Workers' Party as well as the expulsion
of students attending higher education institutions.
128)
29th of November
1956,
Bucharest. Report by
a Securitate
investigator, approved
by his superiors that requested the extension with yet another month the arrest warrant
and the inquiry deadline for Alexandra
Tătaru,
a student arrested in November
10*
for
taking part in Bucharest's University Square meeting in solidarity with the Hungarian
Revolution.
129)
29th of November
1956,
Bucharest. Following the investigations on the people in
contact with Virgil
Ierunca
and Monica Lovinescu the decision was taken for a temporary
halt of Securitate's actions on the latter. The Romanian political police would focus on
the Ierunca-Lovinescu's contacts inside the country, especially those mediated by Ecaterina
Bălăcioiu.
130)
13th of December
1956,
Bucharest. Meeting of the First Secretaries from the regional
committees of the Union of the Working Youth especially those from university centres
following the Hungarian Revolution. Measures for strengthening the Working Youth orga¬
nisations through stepping up the ideological control and through the expulsion of those
with "an unhealthy social origin" have been adopted.
131) 1956
[no precise date], Bucharest. Statistical data on party membership between
1945
and
1956
split on gender, social and professional criteria and on ethnic origin for
1956.
The document revealed the great fluctuations: a massive growth up to the creation
of Romanian Workers' Party followed by a drastic reduction due to verification and purges
campaigns against "exploiters and hostile elements".
132)
9th of January
1957,
Bucharest. Report on the Union of the Working Youth's tasks
to be implemented among students. The document, with some handwritten annotations,
838
was to be presented by Ion
Iliescu
during the first day of the Plenary Meeting of the Central
Committee of the Union of the Working Youth. The document made reference to tough
measures (the expulsion of students and teachers deemed to be "hostile elements") that
have been taken following students' manifestations in various academic centres amid the
Hungarian Revolution. The document also presented measures for "increasing the revo¬
lutionary combativeness".
133)
10th
-
ll"1 of January
1957,
Bucharest. Excerpts from the minutes of discussions
held after the reports presented by Virgil Trofm and Ion
Iliescu
at the Second Plenary of
the Central Committee of the Union of the Working Youth that took place between
10
and
11
January
1957.
The main issues that have been debated were: improving the political-
ideological activity for strengthening youth's communist education; changing the social
blend of the Union of the Working Youth by increasing the percentage of workers;
strengthening the Union's activity in the rural arias especially within the Agricultural
Cooperative Farms; purges among students and lecturers following the meetings that took
place amid the Hungarian Revolution; re-establishing the workers' faculties; mobilizing
young writers in supporting the Party's policies. A series of leaders from the Union of
the Working Youth and from the Romanian Workers Party, that would further their political
career in the Party presented their opinions: Nicolae
Ceauşescu,
Cornel
Pacoste, Ştefan
Bârlea, Ion Cârcei
as well as the members and the two raporteurs.
134)
IS111 of February
1957,
Bucharest.
Securitate
report for the Romanian Workers'
Party leadership on the annihilation of the "revolutionary committee" set up by Lt.
Teodor
Mărgineanu
in a military unit in Prundu
Bârgăului
that was preparing a strong anticom-
munist revolt.
135)
19th of August
1957,
Bucharest. Minutes of the discussion between the leadership
of the Romanian Workers' Party and the Vietnamese Communist Party's delegation led
by
Ho Chi Min. In a
telegraphic manner, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and Nicolae
Ceauşescu
gave a "crash course" in the history of the Party, the First Secretary's version, from its
beginnings until
1957.
Ceauşescu,
the "master's voice" in
1957,
will partially re-write it
after
1965
to put himself in spotlight.
136)
31st of October
1957,
Bucharest. Report revealing the number of "inimical elements"
split on several criteria according to Securitate's Operative Record Service.
137)
20th of May
1958,
Bucharest. Ministry of Internal Affairs' report that set a
12
month
long mandatory assigned residence for
Alexandru Tătaru
after he served a
2
years prison
sentence. He was arrested in November
1956
for joining the University Square meeting
in support of the Hungarian Revolution.
138)
26th of August
1958,
Bucharest. Order by the Minister of Interior Alexandra
Draghici
that, in practical
tenns,
extended (with
24
to
72
months) the mandatory assigned residence
by "setting the work place" for
126
political prisoners that served their time but were
considered as "extremely dangerous for the state's security". All
126
political prisoners
were already housed in the special villages of
Lăţeşti, Movila Gâldăului,
Ràchitoasa,
Salcâmi and Valea Viilor.
139)
21st of February
1959,
Bucharest. Information report by the Ana
Toma,
First Deputy
of the Ministry of Foreign Trade on discussions held in Bonn by the People's Republic
of Romania's Agency with West
Gemían
authorities on separating the matters of bilateral
economic ties from the family reunification matter. The document included annotations
839
by Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej showing his interest in establishing diplomatic ties between
People's Republic of Romania and West Germany. Romania and West Germany had only
economic and cultural ties at that moment in time. Diplomatic ties between the two
countries would be established as late as
1967.
140)
23rd of March
1959,
Bucharest. Report by
a Securitate
officer that proposed the
secret arrest and interrogation of
Iulian Cişmaşu,
a student in journalism at the Faculty
of Philosophy in order to obtain "evidence" for arresting a group of students. According
to Securitate's information, the members of the informal group were critical towards the
Party's policies and expressed their sympathy for the events in Hungary.
141)
28th of March
1959,
Bucharest. The Minister of Interior Alexandra
Draghici
informed the Central Committee of the Romanian Workers' Party and the First Secretary
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej about the abuses committed in several villages and areas in
Bucharest region against the farmers that refused to join the collective farms.
Draghici
blamed the party activists for the abuses, exonerating
Securitate
officers and petty-officers.
142)
31st of March
1959,
Bucharest. Sentence No.
63
by the Military Court of the Second
Military Region that condemned Pastor Richard
Wurmbrand
to
25
years of hard prison.
143)
19th of June
1959,
Bucharest. Decision by the Bucharest Military Court that sen¬
tenced six students at the Faculty of Philosophy's Journalism Section to
3
up to
7
years
of correctional jail for "conspiring against the social order" and "counter-revolutionary
propaganda". They were accused of making "inimical" remarks on the Party's media
control, on the "socialist realism", forced collectivisation of the farmland. The group
expressed its sympathy for the
1956
Hungarian Revolution.
144)
20th of June
1959,
Suceava.
The Romanian Workers' Party
Suceava
region committee
informed the Central Committee of the Romanian Workers Party that Militia employed
"prohibited methods" in order to fulfil the plan for gold and hard currency which may
be detrimental from a political point of view and demanded the case to be investigated.
145)
25th of June
1959,
Bucharest. Decision by me Securitate's First Directorate (Foreign
Intelligence) to close the file on Monica Lovinescu.
146)
19th of September
1959,
Braşov.
Decision by the
Braşov
Military Court that sen¬
tenced five Romanian
-
ethnic German writers to
10
to
25
years hard labour imprisonment
for the "crime of conspiring against the social order". Andreas Birkner, Wolf Aichelburg,
Georg Scherg,
Hans Bergel and
Harald Siegmund
were indicted for writing works with
"unfriendly content" against the communist regime.
147) [1959,
after September 25th], [Bucharest]. Summary of the intelligence file on
Ecaterina
Bălăcioiu
that has been inserted in the file that the Securitate's First Directorate
has opened on Monica Lovinescu. Romanian
Securitate
considered that broadcasting for
a Western state equals being foreign intelligence service's agent. The trial against Ecaterina
Bălăcioiu
followed the same logic.
148)
29th of September
1959,
Bucharest. Following intelligence from Securitate's Paris
agents on Monica Lovinescu's action towards her mother's release, the chief of the Roma¬
nian espionage, Nicolae Doicaru decided to recruit Lovinescu in exchange for her mother's
release.
149) 11*
of November
1959,
Bucharest. Securitate's Paris located agents proposed to
contact and blackmail Monica Lovinescu who found out about her mother's arrest and
840
who, according to one female informer, was ready to come to the People's Republic of
Romania's Legation to inquire about her fate.
150)
19th of November
1959,
Cluj.
Sentence No.
510
by
Cluj
Military Court that passed
heavy prison terms (between
12
and
16
years hard labour and between
3
and
8
years cor¬
rectional jail) against
22
leaders of the Christian movement the Lord's Army.
151)
17th of December
1959,
Bucharest. Securitate's Paris located agents gave details
on the contact made by an agent with Monica Lovinescu and the subsequent attempt to
use her imprisoned mother to blackmail her. Despite Monica Lovinescu's obvious reluc¬
tance, the agent considered that he/she may be able to maintain the contacts.
152) [1959],
Bucharest.
Atable
with
323,207
"inimical elements" that were monitored
by Securitate's regional directorates and gathered by the Operative Record Service.
153)
7th of January
1960,
Bucharest. Reports drafted by the Public Prosecution Office
and presented to the Central Committee of the Romanian Workers' Party on the sentences
for "criminal acts in the agricultural sector" between
1950
and
1953;
enforcement of the
Decree No.
155/4
April
1953
on the release of the people sentenced for up to
2
year prison
terms or still under penal inquiry (over
580,000
people benefited from partial or full pardon).
154)
9th of January
1960,
Jilava.
Handwritten letter that Ecaterina
Bălăcioiu
wrote from
Jilava
Penitentiary to her daughter Monica Lovinescu at the request of Securitate's First
Directorate (Foreign Intelligence). The original letter in French was meant to be used by
Securitate's Paris agency in contacting Monica Lovinescu.
155)
9th of March
1960,
Bucharest. Report on the number, gender, social origin, profes¬
sion, and ethnic background of the members and candidate-members of the Romanian
Workers' Party, and the elimination of the "unhealthy elements". The document revealed
the structure of the Romanian Workers' Party. One emphasised on the need to increase
the percentage of collective
fann
peasants, of Romanians from the regions where ethnic
Hungarians formed the majority population as well as the need for strengthening the
political and ideological education.
156)
гб'11
of March
1960,
Bucharest. Decree by the Presidium of the Great National
Assembly of the People's Republic of Romania that changed the death sentence passed
against Oriental studies expert
Aurel Decei
into hard labour for life. He was arrested in
East Berlin in December
1958,
during a KGB-STASI operation.
157)
5th of May
1960,
Bucharest. Decree by the Presidium of the Great National Assembly
of the People's Republic of Romania that changed
14
death sentences into hard labour
for life.
158)
ЗО"1
of June
1960,
Bucharest. Securitate's First Directorate (Foreign Affairs) resumed
its project to contact Monica Lovinescu after suspending it for a while due to her attitude.
Securitate
intended to use the letter written by her mother, Ecaterina
Bălăcioiu
in January
1960
while she was detained in
Jilava
Penitentiary.
159)
7th of July
1960,
Jilava.
Intelligence note on Ecaterina
Bălăcioiu
written by a convict
that has been recruited inside the prison. The note revealed that Ecaterina
Bălăcioiu
refused
to be used by
Securitate
to recruit Monica Lovinescu. A handwritten note indicated that
Ecaterina
Bălăcioiu
died in
Văcăreşti
Penitentiary's hospital on 7th of June
1960.
841
160)
7th of November
1960,
Bucharest. Securitate's Paris agency demands a confirmation
on the information that Ecaterina
Bălăcioiu
has died as it received the letter meant to be
used in contacting and blackmailing her daughter, Monica Lovinescu.
161)
7th of November
I960,
Bucharest. The Leadership of Securitate's First Directorate
(Foreign Intelligence) confirms the death of Ecaterina
Bălăcioiu
and decided to terminate
the operation to contact Monica Lovinescu.
162)
[approx
1960],
Bucharest. Note, containing some inaccurate data that listed the
main
résistance
groups from the mountainous arias that have been "liquidated" by
Securitate
between
1952
and
1959.
163)
27th of March
1961,
Bucharest. Report on Romanian Workers' Party's structure
and membership distribution on gender, age, ethnicity and economic branches. The docu¬
ment gave information on the number of grassroots party organisations and about the
education of the members and candidate members that were enrolled in party schools
and special courses.
164)
12th of June
1961,
Bucharest. Handwritten record from
Petre
Borila
's
cadres file
on his activity "to be used in filing his work record book."
165)
12th of June
1961,
Bucharest. Handwritten record on the activity of
Dumitra Coliu
"to be used in filing his work record book"
166)
12th of June
1961,
Bucharest. Handwritten record on the activity of Alexandra
Draghici
"to be used in filing his work record book".
167)
12th of June
1961,
Bucharest. Handwritten record about the activity of
Emil
Bodnăraş,
"to be used in filing his work record book".
168)
12th of June
1961,
Bucharest. Handwritten record on the activity of Leonte
Răutu,
"to be used in filing his work record book.
169)
12th of June
1961,
Bucharest. Handwritten record on the activity of Chivu
Stoica,
"to be used in filing his work record book".
170)
13th of June
1961,
Bucharest. The Decree, the
exposé
of reasons and the report on
pardoning the remaining prison terms for five people (loan
Berindei,
Samuel Gropper,
Ana and
Nora Isabela Samuelli,
Herant Torosian). The decision followed the ransoms
paid by foreign relatives and foreign institutions.
171)
IS"1 of June
1961,
Bucharest. Handwritten record on the activity of Ana
Toma,
"to be used in filing his work record book".
172)
29th of November
1961,
Rupea (Braşov).
Report drafted by the Party's grassroots
organization at
Rupea Districtual
local soviet on Mircea
Muşat's
admission into the Party.
173)
20th of December
1961,
Cluj.
A letter by the former investigator in the
Lucreţiu
Pătrăşcanu's
lot, loan
Şoltuţiu
addressed to the Party's Control Commission,
Dumitra
Coliu.
The fallen-from-grace officer attempted to raise the interest of the Party's leadership by
revealing some information he considered as compromising for
Ana Pauker
and Teohari
Georgescu, information that he did not reveal during the inquiry.
174)
4th of January
1961,
Bucharest. Letter addressed by
Ofelia Manóle
to Gheorghe
Gheorghiu-Dej in which she attempted to win the graces of the First Secretary of the
Romanian Workers' Party.
Ofelia Manóle
was removed from the party's central apparatus
842
at
ťhe
9 -13
June
1958
Plenum when she received a vote of blame. The letter was a showcase
of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej's personality cult even among the illegalists and a testimony
of the moral and intellectual decrepitude of the party activists that controlled the culture
and the art in the People's Republic of Romania.
175)
IO"1
of March
1962,
Bucharest. A model for apersonnel card drafted by Securitate's
"C" Operative Record Service regarding Mihai Derdena, a student that has been arrested
and sent to prison amid the events surrounding the Hungarian Revolution and who, after
5
years in prison was given a mandatory assigned domicile for another year. One should
notice that the card contained major mistakes of the names of the people, proving
Securitate
officers' careless work.
176)
12th of March
1962,
Bucharest. A document presented to the Romanian Workers'
Party leadership about the end of collectivization of Romania's farmland ahead of the
1965
schedule set by the Romanian Workers' Party III Congress (June
I960).
The document
revealed the unprecedented rush for collectivization in February and during the first decade
of March.
177)
19th of March
1962,
Bucharest. A document presented to the Romanian Workers'
Party leadership assessing the collectivization of Romania's farmland as practically
complete
(99.5%
of the farmland, less the mountainous arias) after the February and March
haste. The document revealed the massive mobilisation of the party's active for the action.
Ending the collectivization will be made public at the Special Plenary of the Central
Committee of the Romanian Workers' Party
(23 -25
April
1962)
and at the Extraordinary
Session of the Great National Assembly
(27- 30
April
1962)
in the presence of
11,000
peasant-strong audience. The figure is symbolic as the party propaganda attempted to
accredit it as the number of the people allegedly killed during
1907
peasants' uprising.
178)
27th of March
1962,
Bucharest. Copy of the letter addressed by the former Interior
Minister, Teohari Georgescu to Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and the members of Political
Bureau in which he is trying to exonerate himself from the accusations of being
Ana Pauker
and Vasile
Luca
accomplice. The document brings several information about the full-of-
suspicious atmosphere existing at the highest level of Romanian Workers Party leadership
and the Soviet interferences too. At that time, Teohari Georgescu was the manager of
13
Decembrie
1918
Poligraphical Factory, as he was menial trying to win back Gheorghiu-
Dej attention on his case.
179)
18tuof July
1962,
Bucharest. Decision of the Party Control Committee of the Roma¬
nian Workers Party about granting the time in party's service since
1942
to Leon Na?-
Littman, first-deputy of the Party administration.
180)
26thof September
1962,
Bucarest. Note
of Alexandra
Draghici,
Interior Minister,
about a conversation with General P.I. Ivasutin, the first deputy of the KGB president
about the collaboration between the Romanian secret service and the Soviet secret service.
The document shows the discontent of the fist-deputy of K.G.B. about the collaboration
between the two secret services. The document proves the discontent of the Interior Minister
about the way the secret K.G.B agents inside
Securitate
were acting and about the fact
that those K.G.B agents inside
Securitate
knew the identity of the foreign Romanian agents.
181)
5th of December
1962,
Bucharest. Note of the
Campina
local branch of
Securitate
concerning the pursuing of Lena
Constante,
former member of Lucre?iu
Páträ?canu
group,
being under home supervision in
Campina
after her release from the prison. The document
843
proves
the methods used by
Securitate
to survey and guard the people considered enemy
of State through informer's constant watch
182)
19th of February
1963,
Bucharest. Note of the
Securitate
informant that contacted
Monica Lovinescu in Paris bringing a letter from Romania that has been written by one
of her mother's detention colleagues as well as a small collar that Ecaterina
Bălăcioiu
gave her before death.
183)
5th of March
1963,
Bucharest. Report that examined the letters sent to the Party
leadership on the problems confronting the collective agricultural farms.
Injust
two weeks
in February a sizable number of farmers requested to withdraw from the GACs due to
abuses and unfulfilled promises made by GAC leaders during enrolment.
184)
9th of May
1963,
Bucharest. A decree by the State Council that set the pension for
the former Interior Minister, Teohari Georgescu.
185)
9th of September
1963,
Bucharest. Amid cooling of relations between Romanian
Workers' Party and the Soviet Union's Communist Party and the de-Russification of the
institutions, the Science and Art Section of the Central Committee of the Romanian Workers'
Party recommends a drastic reduction of the activity of the Romanian
-
Soviet
Instituirte.
According to the document, a Science Documentation Institute within the People's Republic
of Romania Academy would take over a part of the Romanian
-
Soviet Institute's tasks
and would present not only Soviet scientific achievements but scientific research carried-
out in other Socialist countries as well as in Western countries too.
186)
9th of September
1963,
Bucharest. Report by the Health Minister for the Central
Committee's Secretariat that recommended the party and state leaders to dissociate their
spa-treatments (that the vast majority enjoyed) and the
45
days-long holiday that, in the
minister's opinion, should be dedicated to other activities such as hunting, fishing, etc.
187)
6th of December
1963,
Bucharest. Report by the Ministry of Internal Affairs that
proposed the lifting of "domicile restrictions" against Dan
Mugur
Rusieski, arrested in
1956
and sentenced to
4
years imprisonment and a further
24
months mandatory assigned
residence for his involvement in manifestations in support for the Hungarian Revolution.
188)
ЗО"1
of January
1964,
Bucharest. Report that summarised the information sent by
Major Mihai Caraman, a diplomat with the Romanian Embassy in Paris who run the famous
"Caraman espionage network" on the "orders" given by the Americans to the Radio Free
Europe to shift the Romanian section's broadcasts towards "stimulating Bucharest's inde¬
pendence tendencies"
vis-à-vis
Moscow.
189)
1st of June
1964,
Bucharest. Report on party activists drafted by Virgil Trofm, the
First Secretary of the Union of the Working Youth. The document insisted on improving
the activists' education and their political and ideological preparedness as well as the
measures taken to diminish the number of promotions for ill-prepared activists that "have
been elected without taking into account their moral and political qualities".
190)
17th of August
1964,
Bucharest. Report approved by the government on the situation
of the former political detainees that have been released from prisons until
1964
showing
that only a part of those able to work have been able to find jobs. The report considered
that the people from rural areas or those that could rely on a legal supporter will be able
to take care of themselves. The Government made provisions for
2,000
from a total of
15,000
people that would receive state aid.
844
191)
4th of November
1964,
Bucharest. Information report by the Ministry of Internal
Affairs regarding the discontent among peasants, their refusal to work for the Coope¬
rative Agricultural Farms following authorities' failure to keep their promises. Numerous
cases of withdrawal requests have been recorded just two years after the official completion
of the cooperativization process. The document points out that stealing cooperatives' goods
has become endemic while corruption among the rural authorities was ripe. Gheorghe
Gheorghiu-Dej's adnotations on the document shows that he was constantly fed with this
kind of confidential data.
192)
8th and 9th of March
1965,
Bucharest. Report and statistical data presented by
Petre
Lupu
to Romanian Workers' Party leadership on implementing the decision to change
the names of several institutions, streets and cities amid the efforts to rewrite the party
history and recover the history of the nation in an attempt to legitimize the communist regime.
193)
23rd of March
1965,
Bucharest. Report on the commemorations in the memory of
the First Secretary of the Romanian Workers' Party, the late Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
that passed away on March 19th. |
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