ACŢIUNI DE INFILTRARE A MINISTERULUI DE INTERNE DUPĂ 23 AUGUST 1944
INTERIOR MINISTRY’S ACTIONS OF INFILTRATION AFTER 23 AUGUST 1944

Summary/Abstract: For a better coordination of informative and repressive actions, the communist party, a determined supporter of centralism, decided in 1947 to create the General Directorate for State Security, direct predecessor of Securitate. The management of the institution was assigned to a team which had proved its fidelity and lack of scruples in eliminating political enemies. One of the first structures within the Ministry of Internal Affairs, infiltrated and then controlled by communists, was the Detective Service, directly subject to the Directorate for Security Police. Besides the direct involvement in organizing the repression of political opponents, the Detective Service intensified its attributions in what concerned the prosecution and infiltration in the environments hostile to communism. If between 1945 and 1947 the repressive actions had been carried out by persons from the old police or informative structures, being used for the fight against political opponents by the persons from those structures believing in communists, on August 28th, 1948, the political police became the explicit attribute of a state institution, General Directorate for the Security of the People (GDSP)

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