CONTRIBUȚII LA O ISTORIE A COMUNISMULUI: OFIȚERUL DE SECURITATE ÎN EPOCA CEAUȘESCU – MIT, MODEL, FORMARE, ACTIVITATE (I)
CONTRIBUTIONS TO A HISTORY OF COMMUNISM: THE CEAUȘESCU-ERA SECURITY OFFICER – MYTH, MODEL, TRAINING, ACTIVITY DURING

Summary/Abstract: This study aims to detail some aspects of the fieldwork of the security officer in the 1980s – especially that of the intelligence department – based on testimonies, which also involve interviews and archival documents. In addition, this information is linked to current studies on the training of security officers along with training manuals for officers, used in the form of courses. Some of the documents used are “Instructions for Surveillance and Investigations” from 1978 and “Current Issues and Changes in the Foreign Intelligence Service v. R.S.R.” Both documents were published electronically by Remus Mircea Birtz on his personal blog; therefore, the task of researching and extracting these documents from the archives – often demanding and cumbersome – does not belong to us. It should be noted that the Security, as a body of utmost importance for the functioning of the R.S.R. In the foreseeable parameters for the regime of that time, it has known important fluctuations and transformations, even radical ones, on the current ones of what historiography is almost in the form of definition, “the history of communism in Romania”. So, we can capture several stages in the evolution of the Security – almost a history segmented at intervals of ten years each.

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