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Securitate
Sign in to saveThe Department of State Security (), commonly known as the Securitate (, ), was the secret police agency of the Socialist Republic of Romania. It was founded on 30 August 1948 from the Siguranța with help and direction from the Soviet MGB.
Key facts
- Government agency.agency_name
- Department of State Security
- Government agency.nativename
- Departamentul Securității Statului
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- Coat of arms of Romania (1965–1989).svg
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- 190px
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- Coat of arms of Romania (1965–1989)
- Government agency.formed
- 30 August 1948 (as the DGSP)
- Government agency.preceding1
- Siguranța
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- SMERSH of Romania
- Government agency.preceding3
- Mobile Brigade
- Government agency.dissolved
- 30 December 1989
- Government agency.superseding1
- Romanian Intelligence Service
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- Foreign Intelligence Service
- Government agency.superseding3
- Protection and Guard Service
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- Special Telecommunication Service
- Government agency.jurisdiction
- Romania
- Government agency.headquarters
- Bucharest
- Government agency.chief1_name
- Gheorghe Pintilie, director
- Government agency.chief1_position
- (1948–1959, first)
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Article
21 sectionsContents
- History
- Founding
- Method
- Downfall
- Subdivisions
- General Directorate for Technical Operations
- Directorate for Counterespionage
- Directorate for Foreign Intelligence
- Directorate for Penitentiaries
- Directorate for Internal Security
- National Commission for Visas and Passports
- Directorate for Security Troops
- Directorate for Militia
- Directorate V
- Directors
- Funding
- IKEA
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
The Department of State Security (), commonly known as the Securitate (, ), was the secret police agency of the Socialist Republic of Romania. It was founded on 30 August 1948 from the Siguranța with help and direction from the Soviet MGB.
The Securitate was, in proportion to Romania's population, one of the largest secret police forces in the Eastern bloc. The first budget of the Securitate in 1948 stipulated a number of 4,641 positions, of which 3,549 were filled by February 1949: 64% were workers, 4% peasants, 28% clerks, 2% persons of unspecified origin, and 2% intellectuals. By 1951, the Securitate's staff had increased fivefold, while in January 1956, the Securitate had 25,468 employees. At its height, the Securitate employed some 15,000 agents and almost half a million informants for a country with a population of 23 million by 1989. Following the Romanian Revolution in 1989, the new authorities assigned the various intelligence tasks of the Securitate to new institutions.