Cazul Pătrăşcanu şi anchetele stalinismului târziu. Un document-cheie din noiembrie 1952
The Pătrăşcanu Case and the late Stalinism's inquiries. A November 1952 key-document

Summary/Abstract: In autumn 1952, the inquiry in Pătrăşcanu case resumed at an accelerated pace. On November 7, 1952, the new chief investigator, Ioan Şoltuţiu, a lt.-col. from the Securitate, sent to the Minister of the Internal Affairs, Alexandru Drăgici, and to the RWP' leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej a report which extensively developed the theory of numerous connections that supported the treacherous activity of Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu: "the right deviators" (Ana Pauker, Teohari Georgescu), the chiefs of the former Intelligence Special Service (former Soviet agents!), departments' heads within the Securitate, agents of American and English intelligence services. The author argues that the report was written under the direct coordination of Soviet main counsellor Aleksandr M. Sakharovski. He was inspired by the "Abakumov Affair" that took place in Moscow in the summer of 1951, the purges that followed within the Ministry of State Security of the Soviet Union, and other inquiries in Moscow during the time, especially the one that became known as the "doctors' plot".

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