Biografia unui şef din Securitate: Colonelul Gheorghe Enoiu
The Biography of a Securitate Leader: Colonel Gheorghe Enoiu

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the biography of Gheorghe Enoiu, director of the Penal Investigation Department of the Securitate, between 1963 and 1967, and one of the most notorious torturers from the Romanian Communist Regime. His celebrity is a consequence of the many penal investigations he conducted in his career. This study is structured in five parts (Gheorghe Enoiu – biographical aspects, The Portrait of Gheorghe Enoiu into the documents, The Penal Investigations of Gheorghe Enoiu, Justifying the crimes, and the End of a career). These sections present and analyse the most important biographical data regarding Gheorghe Enoiu, his biographical and professional trajectory, the way he was portrayed in documents by those who knew him, his main penal inquiries. In the „Justifying the crimes” section, Gheorghe Enoiu’s motives for his crimes were analysed and the last part depicts the closure of his career as a member of the Securitate.

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