Personalităti ale frontului secret din România:Gheorghe Cristescu
Personalities of the Secret Front in Romania: Gheorghe Cristescu

Summary/Abstract: Gheorghe (Gicu) Cristescu was one of the best Romanian secret service specialists in the interwar period and during World War II. Although between November 15, 1940 and August 23, 1944 he was subordinated to his brother, Eugen Cristescu, head of the Special Intelligence Service, their relations were strictly professional. In June 1948 he was sentenced in absentia to forced labor for life, for his alleged involvement in the June 26-31, 1941 massacre of the Jews in Iasi. Apprehended in 1953 in Transylvania, he was successively imprisoned at Deva, Bucharest (Uranus), Fagaras, Gherla, Ramnicu Sarat and Aiud until his release in July 1964. He then worked as an unskilled laborer and died in anonymity in 1975.

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