Title: Romanian Daily Publishes List of Securitate Agents Working in 
Intelligence  

Document Number: FBIS-EEU-2002-0405
Document Date: 28 Mar 2002
Sourceline: EUP20020405000259 Bucharest Ziua in Romanian 28 Mar 02 pp I-IV of 
supplement 
Citysource: Bucharest Ziua 
Language: Romanian 
Subslug: "Armageddon 7" report: "Armageddon of Securitate People" 

[FBIS Translated Text]     We have received yet another cyber-bomb in the 
editorial office e-mails. It is the Armageddon 7 report.   This time, the 
text refers to Securitate officers who continued to hold key posts in the 
intelligence services established by democratic regimes after 1989. The 
moment chosen to propagate in the media the information included in the 
appendix to this new Armageddon (which includes approximately 1,600 
names) is delicate. The injection of this information is happening at the 
very time that there is increasingly intense talks about Romania joining 
NATO and about the fact that it is just a matter of hours before it 
becomes public that -- willy-nilly -- Romania will be taken into NATO, 
along with Bulgaria. It is already known that one of the primary 
requirements of the NATO leaders is that no more "dinosaurs" from the 
former Securitate should remain in the structures of the Romanian 
intelligence services. The source of Armageddon 7 is equally unknown to 
us. Our editorial office got it from the Press Monitoring Agency, which 
says that, as far as it is concerned, it just got it like you catch a 
ball when playing sports. Perhaps General Zaharia Toma [of the Interior 
Ministry, MI] knows more about this, or perhaps it is some secret service 
chief who has started his own fight with the parallel services. When we 
asked about Armageddon 7, the Romanian Intelligence Service [SRI] 
answered us placidly: "No comment" [preceding two words published in 
English]. This makes room for the interpretation that anything is 
possible. We decided to publish the Armageddon 2 report, owing to the 
gratuitous reaction of the prime minister, but this time we are 
publishing the entire text of this new Armageddon precisely owing to the 
opacity of the SRI. We know that the publication of this new Armageddon 
will start a new storm, an even bigger one than that started by 
Armageddon 2. However, we hope that, by sending this text to the printing 
press, we will no longer have a diversion meant to hide the truth, that, 
instead of witnessing other arrests "in the street" or new abuses by the 
Prosecuting Magistracy, we will get concrete answers as to whether the 
information included in this electronic document is real or not. We also 
mention that there are references to Ziua in the appendix to Armageddon 7 
-- namely to revelations published by our daily. They are partly true. 
Some of these are known facts. Equally, as far as we are concerned, we 
believe that the information in this Armageddon may be "partly" true, 
because we have found enough mistakes. This is precisely why the public 
needs to find out about this list. If officials chose to say "no 
comment," we prefer to go to the public to find out the truth. The names 
in this list are not names of ghosts. The persons in question have 
acquaintances, neighbors, and so forth, who can deny or confirm the 
facts, over the head of the SRI. We are inviting them to the debate. 

    [Signed] Bogdan Comaroni 

   [Text of "Armageddon 7" report] 

    It has been exactly 12 years since the SRI was established and 12 
years since the public has been systematically and shamelessly lied to 
about the composition of that structure. Both [former SRI Directors] 
Virgil Magureanu and Costin Georgescu and [current SRI Director] Radu 
Timofte have been misleading us and are continuing to do so, taking turns 
to assure us that the SRI is becoming a modern intelligence service, in 
which he number of former Securitate officers is decreasing continuously. 
Today we find that, on the contrary, the former Communist body in charge 
of repression and intelligence is still controlling the game at the SRI, 
as the number of former Securitate officers always prevails at the SRI 
management level in Bucharest, in the management of local branches, and 
in all of its compartments. Retired former Securitate officers are also 
certainly on the offensive, infiltrated in economic structures, in 
financial institutions, managing public and private money, in the 
executive, and in the legislature. They have been and still are present 
in state or private funds, in financial investment companies, in the 
Financial Oversight Body, in the customs system, and, not least, in 
privatization mechanisms. Exactly 54 private security and protection 
companies are managed by former Securitate officers, and all of them are 
in permanent conflict with this country's laws. They have been parasites 
on numerous banks, under the pretext of assuring the internal and 
external protection of those banks, and the banks protected by them have 
collapsed, one by one. They established the International Religions Bank 
[BIR], and they are the ones who led it to bankruptcy when the 
population's deposits reached a tempting size. Then they got together in 
all kinds of insurance companies, which have no brilliant future. 

    In fact, our forecast has partly been confirmed. In an extreme 
situation, they signed up together under the banner of the great robber 
Sorin Ovidiu Vantu, who is cleverer than them at making money out of 
corners where they did not have access, either because they did not know 
the procedure or for other reasons. What can be more significant than the 
fact that more than 320 reservists from the former Securitate and the 
SRI, shoulder to shoulder, worked for this profoundly dubious man, 
cashing in their shares, of course? Equally, what can be more significant 
than the fact that our vigilant domestic intelligence service pretended 
not to notice anything when Vantu's clay empire was riding on top of the 
wave? We are going back to the former Securitate officers that the SRI 
has kept. When he was director, Magureanu deceived us by claiming that 
there were only 15 percent of them in the service he managed. A decade 
later, Timofte is triumphantly giving us the same percentage. What could 
this mean? That out of the first 15 percent, those who died or retired 
were replaced with former Securitate people brought from home or from the 
marketplace? Unlike the SRI directors, the directors of the SIE [Foreign 
Intelligence Service] at least had the common sense to stay away from 
playing games with numbers, and, implicitly, from becoming ridiculous. 

    For years we have been told that former Securitate officers in the 
SIE and the SRI were kept exclusively as specialists. In that case, what 
was the specialty of General Dumitru Badescu, SRI division chief, if he 
ended up being mocked by a small-time informer? What was the specialty of 
General Corneliu Grigoras, SIE directorate chief, if two less-known 
journalists with modest reputations managed to lure him into a trap, 
through which he lost his job? Come to think of it, what was the 
specialty of General Vasile Lupu, first deputy of the SRI bosses during 
two parliamentary terms in office, decorated by President Ion Iliescu and 
former President Emil Constantinescu? Did he specialized in the low blows 
with which he tried to hit Timofte? 

    Actually, the SIE and the SRI did not keep Securitate officers who 
distinguished themselves before 1989 by their civilized, measured 
behavior. Instead, they kept the ones who were not shy about making every 
possible move to get ahead, polishing the shoes of the right figurehead 
politicians, hanging around talking and pretending they were good at 
something, or putting up for bid documents that could be used for 
blackmail. In this manner, the SRI was filled with people who pull 
strings behind the scenes and engage in intrigues, and others who are 
good for nothing. Made up of both active and retired officers, this 
category of Securitate officers was precisely the one who troubled the 
waters all the time in our society, because they are ready for any 
contingency. They have people who support the government, but they also 
have other shifts that support the opposition. 

    The most certain sign that power in the SIE and the SRI is no longer 
in the hands of the evanescent directors, but in the hands of former 
Securitate officers is offered by the two latest major decisions made 
because these officers exercised pressure. The former has to do with the 
SIE: from now on, this espionage service can do business for profit. 
Namely, it can establish firms, and it is certain that auditing bodies 
will not have access to their management. As they used to do in the old 
days, a special auditing body will be established, made up of former 
Securitate people. In connection with this issue, we reiterate a 
statement made by the distinguished General Iulian Vlad on 31 March 1990: 
"Security work, the prestige of the institution, and even this country's 
good name have been seriously damaged by the so-called activity to bring 
in hard currency, conducted primarily by external UM [Military Unit] 0544 
and UM 0195, as well as the internal security UM 0650. 

    Apart from the fact that, most of the time, the moneys represented a 
small fraction of the price of the goods that the state would have cashed 
in anyway in fair negotiations, Securitate officers had to enter into all 
kinds of combinations with foreigners, which were often compromising, and 
there was no definite control of their activity and of the hard currency 
involved. Equally serious was the fact that the units in question had to 
a large extent been detoured from the missions for which they had been 
established and which were useful to the country. Despite all of the 
efforts we made to exempt the Securitate from this task or at least to 
reduce it substantially, we were not successful. On the contrary 
[Securitate chief] Tudor Postelnicu turned it into a priority activity, 
to which the entire apparatus had to contribute." Obviously, former 
Securitate officers who used to work for the CIE [Foreign Intelligence 
Center] or even the DIE [Foreign Intelligence Directorate] feel their 
palms itch when they think about dollars and euros. But who would have 
imagined that an intellectual like Ioan Talpes, who supervised the 
transformation of the SIE into a SA [shareholding company] or even an SRL 
[limited partnership company], could play Postelnicu's role so happily? 

    The latter decision, made under pressure from former Securitate 
officers, this time in the SRI, was to dismantle the National 
Intelligence Agency [ANI]. As pretexts, they invoked the lack of funds 
and the fact that many graduates do not live up to the commitment they 
make, not taking jobs in the SRI. That is great! Funds for useless trips 
around the world in airplanes full of family members, political 
supporters, and most obedient journalists can be found immediately. But 
not for a school meant to educate officers who will protect this 
country's interests.   The truth is different: there is better education 
at the ANI than what they used to get at the Securitate school in Baneasa 
Forest [near Bucharest], which bothers Securitate people, who were 
educated at schools where attendance was not required and who have the 
kind of degrees that everybody knows how they were granted -- and still 
are. It is also normal that the graduates in question avoid getting jobs 
with the SRI. Nobody in his right mind and with a solid education would 
agree to become the servant of the likes of Vasile Lupu, who chases 
ranks, and Dumitru Badescu, who is a sucker. 

    It was a piece of cake for former Securitate officers to penetrate 
the legislature. Colonel Stefan David, former chief of the Securitate in 
Resita, broke the ice. We cannot accuse Colonel Ilie Merce of any 
wrongdoing, almost all of the writers in Bucharest knew him, and maybe he 
even got the votes of some of them who were curious to see how a 
Securitate man is doing in democracy: like fish out of water or like an 
earthworm in the fish's mouth? However, Ristea Priboi, forgetting to tell 
people that he was a former Securitate officer, worked like a real crook. 
More, he associated the SIE with his con job. The SIE did not communicate 
to the CNSAS [National Council for the Study of Securitate Files] any 
precise data on him, thus contributing to its own compromising. Indeed, 
following such an experience, how can anyone trust the service's signals, 
syntheses, and verdicts?   Still, the penetration of former Securitate 
officers into the executive is much more dangerous. Wearing the masks of 
advisers, they teem everywhere, like termites. We have identified six or 
seven such people in the entourage of the prime minister alone, with 
Priboi as their leader, fretting around. 

    If the name of our prime minister was Vladimir Voronin or Aleksandr 
Lukashenko, this would be explainable. But it is harder to answer this 
question: why does highly educated, aloof Adrian Nastase put up with 
Priboi, who is poor in spirit, whom even his former colleagues hate as a 
piece of garbage, lovingly calling him "Pig!"   What does Nastase learn 
from Constantin Silinescu, a nobody in his profession? What does he learn 
from General Mihai Caraman, who engaged in espionage with the posterior 
part of his body toward the enemy? To say nothing of other people, 
smaller ones, but cleverer in getting lost in the vegetation of the 
government savanna, hiding behind various fuzzy landmarks in the 
landscape. There is an idea floating in the air that, following a 
personality cult that is exhibited according to all the rules, there is a 
dictatorship in store for us. For now, Nicolae Ceausescu has strong 
reasons to be envious: he only spoke on television two hours a day, 
because that is how long Romanian Television stayed on the air. In 
comparison, Nastase speaks to the nation from dawn until after midnight, 
because we now have many more televisions that are on the air around the 
clock.   We will discuss some other time the dictatorship that makes both 
Nastase and stupid Priboi happy. When it is too late for them. 

    PS: We are publishing fragments of a list that includes more than 
1,600 names of former Securitate officers who have been going from one 
place to another in the SRI, the SIE, and other, more civilian structures 
from 1990 to present.   In order to avoid accusations that we publish 
state secrets, we steered clear of developing our demonstration on the 
current SRI staffing scheme. In the current circumstances, a possible 
investigation would not ask what those Securitate people are doing in the 
staffing scheme, it would ask why observers who were not taken into 
consideration got hold of that scheme. 

    Appendix 

    Ion Adamescu 

    Former Securitate officer, recuperated by the SRI with the rank of 
colonel and hired by the Timisoara section.   He cooperated in exposing 
Magureanu's informer file, and this is why he was placed in the reserves 
on 16 April 1996. 

    Aldea 

    Former officer of the Securitate Fourth Directorate. Currently 
lieutenant colonel, section chief in the Army General Intelligence 
Directorate [DGIA]. 

    Aleca 

    Former Securitate officer from Ramnicu Valcea, recuperated by the SRI 
with the rank of major. Two months after the December 1989 events, he 
resumed surveillance of the county hospital in town, his objective before 
the revolution. 

    Constantin Alexa 

    Former Securitate officer, recycled by the SRI. He took the 
initiative to expose file Z 4848, which revealed that Francisc Baranyi 
[former health minister] used to be a Securitate informer. He was later 
dismissed from the service and sued. 

    Stefan Alexie 

    Former Securitate general, chief of the Counterespionage Directorate, 
and state secretary in the Interior Ministry before December 1989.   In 
the 1990s, for a rather long period of time, he worked as an adviser to 
controversial businessman Vantu, who made an essential contribution in 
bankrupting the National Investment Fund [FNI]. 

    Vasile Alexoie 

    Before 1989, he was chief of the Securitate in Roman. After December 
1989, he was co-opted in the SRI management in Iasi County. After being 
placed in the reserves, he became president of the Iasi FNI and director 
of the local Gelsor company branch, which belonged to Vantu. 

    Valer Andreica 

    Former Securitate officer, taken by the SRI with the rank of major. 
At first, he worked for the section in Targu Mures. In July 1998, he was 
transferred to the post of deputy chief of the SRI section in Cluj. 

    Andrei Andronic 

    Former Securitate officer. Taken by the SRI, he was promoted to the 
rank of colonel and promoted to the post of chief of the SRI section in 
Iasi. 

    Octavian Stelian Andronic 

    Former colonel in the Securitate espionage service, station chief in 
The Netherlands and Israel. Because of his precarious professionalism, he 
was no longer accredited abroad during the last period of the Communist 
regime, and he worked for the AVP [special hard currency providing] 
service. Reactivated by the SRI as an economic adviser to Magureanu, he 
had his headquarters in London Street [Bucharest], under the cover of a 
ghost company called Eson SRL, where the wife of journalist Octavian 
Andronic was a shareholder. As an adviser, Octavian Stelian Andronic sold 
several documents to the SRI that had been in the Securitate archives for 
a long time on the paintings that were taken out of the country by former 
King Mihai and his attempts to sell them through Western auction firms. 
Eson SRL ceased its activity following press reports. 

    Vasile Angelescu 

    Former high-ranking officer in the espionage service of the former 
Securitate, suspected of ties with the KGB in Romania. After the events 
of December 1989, he was promoted to the rank of general and promoted to 
the post of first deputy director of the new SIE. His son, Mircea 
Angelescu, an important member of the FSN [National Salvation Front] in 
the 1990s, was involved as shareholder in the dubious business of the SC 
Macons and Co SA company, registered in Belgium. He then became President 
Iliescu's chief of staff. 

    Constantin Angelescu 

    Former high-ranking Securitate officer. Before December 1989, he was 
chief of UM 107/AVS of the CIE, a unit that specialized in state 
smuggling. In 2000, he was vice president of the Rapid soccer club. 

    Marin Antonie 

    Former Securitate officer. He was one of the first deputies of the 
SRI section chief in Dolj County. 

    Apavaloaie 

    Former officer of the Securitate Fourth Directorate. Currently a 
lieutenant colonel, chief of the financial service, in the DGIA. 

    Apostolescu 

    Former Securitate officer, working for the Fifth Directorate, which 
was in charge of protecting Ceausescu and other Communist dignitaries. 
Currently, he is chief of the SRI section in Brasov. 

    Petre Arsene 

    Former Securitate officer. As a reservist, he coordinated the 
establishment of a dubious private investigation agency in Ramnicu 
Valcea, which got illegally involved in the riot led by miners in 
September 1991. Later, it was discovered that the so-called ANISE 
[National Investigation and Economic Security Agency] was established 
with forged deeds. 

    Gheorghe Atudoroaie 

    Former Securitate officer in Timisoara, involved in the crackdown in 
December 1989. After being taken away from judiciary bodies, the SRI 
recuperated him with the rank of colonel. For a while, he was chief of 
the Protection Division. Costin Georgescu tried to appoint him as chief 
of the SRI Zonal Operative Center in Oradea, but his appointment was 
cancelled following protests from civil society. 

    Alexandru Avram 

    Former Securitate colonel in UM 0225, a unit of the CIE in charge of 
infiltrating the organizations of the anti-Communist emigration and 
combating programs by foreign radio stations that broadcast in Romanian. 
After December 1989, he held on for a few years in the espionage service, 
but then he was placed in the reserves because he could not speak any 
foreign language. With other former Securitate officers, he managed to 
steal several confidential documents from the Astra insurance company, 
which unleashed an intense press campaign against the management of that 
company through intermediaries. Following that campaign, the Astra 
management was changed. After that, Avram became deputy director of the 
Astra branch in Bucharest, although he has received no training in 
insurance. 

    Baciu 

    Former Securitate officer recuperated by the SRI with the rank of 
major. He was the first officer of the new intelligence institution to 
become the object of a public scandal when he tried to reactivate an 
informer. 

    Vasile Badea 

    Former officer of the Securitate Fourth Directorate. Currently a 
lieutenant colonel, deputy section chief of the DGIA. 

    Ion Balea 

    Reserve colonel of the former Securitate. In July 1992 several 
members of the PNTCD [National Peasant Christian Democratic Party] in 
Arges County accused him of having infiltrated the local PNTCD 
organization on behalf of the SRI. 

    Alexandru Balogh 

    Former Securitate officer recuperated by the SRI. In 1998, he was 
chief of the surveillance service of the SRI section in Cluj. 

    Bogdan Baltazar 

    According to Mircea Raceanu, who has recently been decorated by 
Iliescu, before December 1989, Baltazar was an undercover Securitate 
officer. After the December 1989 events, he became an important member in 
the leadership of the PD [Democratic Party].   Now he is president of the 
Romanian Development Bank [BRD-Groupe Societe Generale]. 

    Dumitru Badescu 

    Former Securitate officer. Taken by the SRI, he became a general in 
December 1994 and managed the Economic Counterintelligence Division. He 
played an important role in detouring the investigation into the 
Cigarette 2 affair, directly participating in forging the file developed 
by the Military Prosecuting Magistracy. He was dismissed because he made 
stupid use of an informer, who talked to the press. The way in which he 
allowed himself to be trapped proved the very low level of his 
professionalism. Later, he was appointed adviser to the SRI director. 

    Domitian Baltei 

    Former colonel in the Securitate espionage service, deputy station 
chief in London and Tokyo, then station chief in Cologne. Dismissed from 
the service for immoral behavior and involvement in various businesses 
that favored Generals Nicolae Doicaru and Ion Mihai Pacepa. After being 
placed in the reserves, he became a professor at the Stefan Gheorghiu 
Academy. After December 1989, he infiltrated himself into the entourage 
of Corneliu Vadim Tudor [president of the Greater Romania Party, PRM], 
whom he intoxicated with the most fantastic information, of which some 
could have compromised this country's foreign relations. When the press 
exposed his past as a Securitate man, Vadim dismissed him as a political 
adviser. 

    Ionel Bidireci 

    Former high-ranking Securitate officer. He is now a general and chief 
of the SRI Counterintelligence Division. 

    Roxana Bichel 

    She has been mentioned by the press recently in the entourage of the 
management staff of the executive and the Privatization Ministry. A 
member of the boards of a multitude of economic companies. If by any 
chance she is a member of the Ivan Bikel family (Bikel was a DIE colonel, 
who once worked under the cover of Romanian representative of the West 
German Franz Kirchfeld company), we understand whom we are talking about. 

    Mihai Bichir 

    Former officer of the Securitate espionage service, recycled by the 
SIE with the rank of colonel. Director of Directorate E 101 (Europe, 
United States, Canada, and international bodies). He is said to be Teodor 
Melescanu's man, with whom he cooperated in Geneva and who helped him in 
his career. 

    Ioan Bidu 

    Former Securitate officer. Currently deputy rector of the National 
Intelligence Academy, which educates future SRI officers. 

    Cornel Biris 

    Former Securitate officer, recuperated by the SIE. On 30 November 
1999, he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general. Chief of the 
division in charge of crisis analysis and deputy director of the SRI. 
Placed in the reserves in February 2002 at the request of [SIE Director] 
Gheorghe Fulga. 

    Ion Bodunescu 

    Former Securitate colonel, former chief of the MI [Interior Ministry] 
county inspectorates in the counties of Dolj, Mehedinti, and Teleorman.   
Until 1989, he distinguished himself by publishing works written by 
Blacks. Despite the fact that he was caught committing gross plagiarism, 
he continued to dedicate himself to this hobby [preceding word published 
in English]. In the early 1990s, his name could be found in Romania Mare, 
Politica, and Europa, with insipid, nostalgic, and vindictive articles, 
marked, of course, by ardent patriotism. 

    Titu Bondoc 

    Former Securitate officer, taken in by the SRI and appointed deputy 
chief of the SRI Section in Gorj County. In June 1990, he coordinated the 
journey of the miners to Bucharest. Later, he was placed in the reserves, 
with the rank of colonel. In May 2001, he was still under criminal 
investigation by the Section of Military Prosecuting Magistracies for 
undermining state power. 

    Liviu Borcea 

    Former Securitate officer, former labor camp commander at the 
Danube-Black Sea Canal. Due to his criminal behavior, dozens of political 
prisoners and common criminals died. After 1989 he retired to Cluj, and 
nobody has held him accountable for his crimes. 

    Ion Botofei 

    Former Securitate colonel, in charge of ensuring the security of 
Ceausescu's routes in Bucharest. For a while, he was also deputy 
commander of the Bucharest Municipality Securitate. After a short 
recycling at the SRI, he was appointed chief of the Association of Former 
SRI Officers, which is in fact an association of former Securitate 
officers. He provided the liaison between former Securitate people in the 
SRI management and Securitate people placed in the reserves. 

    Valentin Constantin Bretfelean 

    Former Securitate officer. Until September 2001, as a major, he 
managed the SRI Section in Maramures County. Dismissed and sent before 
the SRI Trial Council for serious violations of the institution's rules. 
So far, he has not been punished in any way. 

    Nicolae Briceag 

    Former Securitate officer. He summarily executed at least 12 
individuals who had not been sentenced to death; these facts have been 
determined by the Communist authorities. After 1990, he retired to Cluj, 
and nobody has held him accountable for his deeds. 

    Doru Blaj 

    Former officer of the Securitate Fourth Directorate.   He is now a 
lieutenant colonel and section chief in the DGIA. 

    Constantin Bucur 

    Former Securitate officer recycled by the SRI, where he specialized 
in wiretapping telephone conversations. He placed at the disposal of the 
press several inconclusive tapes that involved the institution in an 
unwanted scandal. He was dismissed on 14 June 1999, and the Military 
Court of Appeals sentenced him to two years in prison, suspended. Later, 
as a member of the PRM, he ran for office and became a deputy in the 
Romanian Parliament. 

    Vasile Buliga 

    Former Securitate officer. In recent years, he has been an employee 
of the Gelsor trust, managed by Vantu. 

    Marius Tertulian Budusel 

    Former Securitate officer. After December 1989, he was employed by 
the SRI and promoted, until he reached the post of section chief in 
Pitesti. 

    Florin Calapod 

    Former high-ranking Securitate officer. After December 1989, he 
became commander of UM 0215, the MI unit in charge of intelligence and 
counterintelligence, which he tried to turn into a parallel service to 
the SRI. The press repeatedly reported, offering concrete examples, that 
under Calapod's management, UM 0215 was engaged in political police 
activities, to the detriment of its legal duties. After having been 
placed in the reserves, he got involved in suspicious business with US 
and Australian firms that distribute Viagra illegally online. He has 
appeared in some television shows, lecturing the nation on what an 
intelligence service is all about. 

    Cornel Caraba 

    Former Securitate officer in UM 0110. During the last period of the 
Communist regime, he worked for the Securitate espionage service, namely 
in UM 0544: in 1986 he was temporarily transferred from there to Cluj. 
After December 1989, he was employed by the SRI and promoted to the rank 
of colonel and to the post of SRI section chief in Cluj. The press 
reported that he could have been one of the artisans of the 1996 Cristal 
plan, which sought to ensure the survival of the Securitate and the 
preservation of its influence as the Communist regime collapsed. Owing to 
his unorthodox relations with the underground economic circles of 
Transylvania, the local and central press attacked him. In July 1998, he 
was transferred to the SRI central offices in Bucharest. 

    Mihai Caraman 

    Retired Securitate general. In 1958-1968, as chief of the espionage 
station in Paris, he led the notorious "Caraman network," which managed 
to steal documents from NATO headquarters. Later, he was chief of the DIE 
Counterintelligence Division. After Pacepa's defection, he was 
transferred to marginal posts and eventually placed in the reserves. 
Immediately after the December 1989 events, he was appointed chief of the 
CIE, which later became the SIE. The anomaly was obvious: the espionage 
service of a country seeking NATO membership was left in the hands of a 
man who had spied on NATO. Caraman was dismissed in May 1992 at the 
express request of Manfred Woerner, then NATO secretary general. 
Currently, the same Caraman is a private adviser to Nastase. 

    Cristian Calinoiu 

    Former Securitate officer. After December 1989, employed by the 
Antiterrorist Brigade with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was a 
member of that brigade, which was deployed at the Otopeni International 
Airport [near Bucharest]. In 1992, it was determined that he was giving 
job-related information to Europa magazine, edited by Ilie Neacsu, who is 
currently a PRM deputy. 

    Traian Chebeleu 

    According to Raceanu, before 1989, Chebeleu was an undercover 
Securitate officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the 1990s, he 
became a presidential adviser and spokesman for Iliescu. Under 
Constantinescu, he went back to diplomacy. 

    Mihai Ciausescu 

    Former Securitate officer, recuperated by the SRI with the rank of 
captain. Officer in the surveillance service of the SRI Section in Cluj. 

    Traian Ciceo 

    Former officer of the Securitate espionage service. Before December 
1989, he worked in Paris under diplomatic cover. There was suspicion that 
he might have been recruited by the French special services. Despite 
that, he was promoted in the SRI to the rank of brigadier general. He 
acted to counteract irredentism, extremism, and separatism on ethnic 
criteria. In March 1998, owing to his Bacchus-like inclinations, he was 
dismissed from the SRI. 

    Cigan 

    Former Securitate officer, currently a lawyer with the Bihor County 
Bar. As the press has reported, by offering bribe to the right people, he 
propelled his wife up to the post of vice president of the Court of 
Appeals in Oradea. 

    Ciovica 

    Former Securitate officer. In the SRI, he became chief of the Zonal 
Operative Center in Targu Mures. Placed in the reserves in 1998. 

    Cismaru 

    Former Securitate officer from Valcea County. As a major in the SRI, 
he became chief of the section in Bacau. 

    Stefan Floricel Coman 

    Beginning in 1968, he was a Securitate officer in the former Special 
Unit "T," UM 0634, empowered to wiretap telephone conversations. After 
the events of December 1989, he became a commander of the Special 
Telecommunication Service [STS], subordinated to the Country's Supreme 
Defense Council [CSAT]. 

    Costel Ciuca 

    Former officer of the Securitate DIE. Close ties with people involved 
in the Cigarette 2 smuggling affair. Close ties with Amer Obeid, 
president of the League of Iraqis in Romania. 

    Valentin Ciuca 

    Former Securitate officer, arrested in December 1989 and investigated 
as a member of the Timisoara lot. After two years and some months, he was 
released from prison, for lack of evidence. With Radu Tinu, he founded 
the Tival Impex SRL company, which prospered during the embargo imposed 
on Yugoslavia. 

    Gheorghe Cocos 

    Former high-ranking officer of the Securitate espionage service.   He 
worked in Italy under the cover of chief of the Economic Agency in Milan. 
Several years ago, he was banned from entering Italy. Currently, he is 
managing some of the firms that belong to George Constantin Paunescu. 

    Constantin Constantin 

    Former Securitate officer. As a colonel in 1989, he was chief of the 
UM 0215 personnel service. He is a close relative of Viorel Hrebenciuc. 

    Marian Cornaciu 

    Officer of the Securitate DIE. He worked for the Dunarea foreign 
trade enterprise. After the events of December 1989, he privatized, 
specializing in selling concentrated fodder for cattle. Currently, he is 
an important member of the Romanian Humanist Party [PUR], led by Dan 
Voiculescu. 

    Corneci 

    Former Securitate colonel. He is currently a member of the SRI 
management in charge of the thorny personnel issue. 

    Valeriu Corsatea 

    Former Securitate officer. In the SRI, he was deputy commander of the 
Antiterrorist Brigade. In December 1994, he was promoted to the rank of 
brigadier general. In 1998, he was transferred, becoming deputy chief of 
an SRI intelligence division. 

    Neagu Cosma 

    Securitate general, former chief of the Third Directorate, which was 
in charge of espionage, former commander of the Baneasa school for 
Securitate officers. After being placed in the reserves, he became 
executive president of the Romanian Automobile Club. In 1990, he was 
reactivated in the SRI as chief of the Inspection Service and adviser to 
Magureanu. Soon, they dismissed him. General Gheorghe Diaconescu said in 
an interview that Cosma allegedly tried to obtain some problematic files 
in the archives of the former Securitate. 

    Lucian Costache 

    Former Securitate captain of the MI Inspectorate in Buzau. He 
cooperated with Petrica Dinu in recruiting informers. After the events of 
December 1989, he was hired by the Buzau County Police Inspectorate. 

    Gheorghe Cotoman 

    Former Securitate officer, recuperated by the SRI as lieutenant 
colonel. In 1994, he was deputy chief of the J Formation. 

    Ovidiu Craciun 

    Former Securitate officer, currently lieutenant colonel, chief of the 
SRI Section in Piatra Neamt. 

    Dumitru Cristea 

    A professional psychologist, one of the worst acquisitions that 
Magureanu made from civilian life. As deputy SRI director and rector of 
the National Intelligence Institute, he was quickly promoted to the rank 
of general, but he had suspicious relations with female students who were 
subordinate to him, and this disqualified him morally, so he had to give 
up his post. Possibly, former Securitate officers in the SRI management 
stabbed him in the back, because they treated him like a stranger. 

    Mircea Croitoru 

    Former officer of the Securitate espionage service. For a while, he 
worked under diplomatic cover in London, but he was recalled in 1978 
under vague circumstances. Under President Constantinescu, he was 
appointed ambassador to Oslo, and the press criticized this. 

    Florentin Danciu 

    Former Securitate officer recuperated by the SRI as a lieutenant 
colonel. In 1994, he was commander of Division E. 

    Mihai Darie 

    Former Securitate officer from 14 April 1976 to 15 April 1990, when 
he was placed in the reserves. Before December 1989, he monitored the 
Fundeni hospital. In 1990, he specialized as chief of the FSN economic 
commission. At the same time he established and managed various private 
firms. He returned to politics as secretary general of the Bucharest 
Prefecture. In 1997, he was executive secretary of the PD. Like any 
important former Securitate man, he has a certificate for fighting for 
the victory of the Romanian revolution. 

    Gheorghe Dascalu 

    Former undercover DIE officer. Physical therapist, settled in 
Desenzano, Brescia Province, Italy. Involved in the Porcelain smuggling 
affair. In 2000, he was reported to have German and Romanian citizenships 
and an Italian identity document. 

    Stefan David 

    Former Securitate colonel with a dubious past. Until 1985, he managed 
the Securitate service in Caras Severin County. In the 1992-1996 
Parliament, he was a deputy representing the Socialist Labor Party. 

    Daniel Daianu 

    Former officer of the Securitate espionage service, a fact he 
admitted to after becoming finance minister in the Victor Ciorbea 
government. The prime minister defended him, saying he allegedly did not 
conduct political police activities. 

    Aurealian Deaconescu 

    Former Securitate officer. Currently chief of the Fraud Service in 
the Astra insurance company. He was involved in defrauding the company to 
Vantu's benefit. 

    Constantin Decu 

    Former Securitate officer, recuperated by the SRI as colonel. In the 
mid-1990s, he was chief of the SRI section in Constanta. 

    Dumitru Diaconescu 

    Former Securitate colonel, personnel chief of the Bucharest 
Municipality Securitate. After December 1989, he managed the Aliance Coop 
company, which was involved in arms trafficking. He had shady financial 
relations with Bankcoop, a bank that was deliberately led to bankruptcy, 
and with the military company Romtehnica. 

    Gheorghe Diaconescu 

    Former colonel with the Securitate Third Directorate, which was in 
charge of counterespionage. After December 1989 he became deputy director 
of the SRI. Dismissed for illegally possessing documents of the former 
Securitate, alcoholism, and the incorrect handling of hard currency 
funds. Later, he ensured the intelligence protection of the deals made by 
businessman Costel Bobic. 

    Nicolae Dinca 

    Former Securitate officer, taken into the SRI as major. At first, he 
worked for the SRI Section in Timis County. In July 1998, he was 
transferred and became deputy chief of the SRI Section in Cluj. 

    Petrica Dinu 

    Former counterintelligence captain at the Buzau County Securitate. 
There, under cover of representing the Frigo Service, he organized a 
center to recruit informers. After the events of December 1989, he became 
chief of the service in charge of protecting personnel in the Buzau 
County Police Inspectorate, and he was involved in monitoring and 
harassing the opponents of the Iliescu regime. 

    Doban 

      Former Securitate officer, specialized in "bourgeois" political 
parties and people who were convicted for political reasons. He managed 
the file on philosopher Constantin Noica, who was monitored [by the 
Securitate]. 

    Dimitrie Dobre 

    Former high-ranking officer of the Securitate espionage service, he 
continued his activity after December 1989 in the SIE. In March 1998, 
after being promoted to the rank of general, he was placed in the 
reserves. 

    Vasile Doros 

    Former Securitate colonel, former chief of the SRI Section in Bacau, 
which he managed for eight years. Through his son, Claudiu Doros, he led 
the FNI local branch in Bacau, an institution that was deliberately led 
to bankruptcy by Vantu. 

    Dragoman 

    Former Securitate officer recuperated by the SRI as colonel. In 1998, 
he was chief of the SRI Section in Arad. 

    Ion Dragoi 

    Former Securitate officer in UM 0110. After December 1989, he became 
section chief of Politia Romana [Romanian Police] magazine. After being 
placed in the reserves, he worked for various publications, including 
Expres magazine (the Cornel Nistorescu series). Currently, he is looking 
for sponsors to publish an espionage and counterespionage publication. 

    Artur Dumitrescu 

    Prosecutor, an active collaborator of the Securitate before December 
1989. Among other things, he was the one who investigated those who 
participated in the protest rally against the Communist regime in Brasov 
on 15 November 1987. For his zeal at the time, he was promoted, and he 
kept his prerogatives after Ceausescu's regime was ousted, as well. In 
1998 he was delegated to investigate the Cigarette 2 smuggling affair, 
namely to erase the traces of the intelligence services' involvement in 
that con job. 

    Gheorghe Dumitrescu 

    Former Securitate officer. When Cigarette 2 was unfolding, he was a 
captain with the SRI surveillance service. 

    Vasile Dumitru 

    Former Securitate colonel in the espionage service. He worked 
undercover as a press attache in London. After December 1989, he 
specialized as a journalist working for the Expres press trust. He 
published various articles wherever and whenever he could, exalting the 
ineptness of the institution he was once a member of. 

    Nicodim Farcas 

    Former Securitate officer, recycled by the SRI as a lieutenant 
colonel, subordinated to Colonel Ghoerghe Moldovan at the SRI Section in 
Maramures County. There were reports that he gave information from inside 
the service to the PUNR [Romanian National Unity Party]. 

    Virgil Faur 

    Former officer of the Securitate espionage service, recycled by the 
SIE as a colonel. 

    Filip 

    Former Securitate officer, a CI [expansion not given] at the Cluj 
army command. Recuperated by the SRI as a colonel. 

    Florea 

    Former Securitate officer. As a major in the SRI, he was chief of the 
SRI Section in Harghita County. 

    Gheorghe Alexandru Florea 

    Former Securitate officer recuperated by the SRI as colonel. In 1994, 
he was chief of the SRI General Secretariat. 

    Ioan Florian 

    Former Securitate officer. In 1998 he was chief of the SRI Section in 
Buzau. Previously, he managed the Zonal Operative Center in Cluj. 

    Nicolae Garofeanu 

    Former Securitate officer. Recuperated by the SRI, he became the 
first chief of the Pitesti section. The press published documents that 
showed the exposure of old informers and political police preoccupations 
similar to those he had before December 1989. 

    Ion Petre Gavrilescu 

    He was a higher-ranking officer in the former Securitate's espionage 
department. In 2000, he was brought back to active service in the SIE 
through a presidential decree. He was promoted to the rank of division 
general. His true identity triggered controversial debates. A little bit 
more than one year later, he was passed again into the reserves. 

    Mircea Gheordunescu 

    He used to work as a physics teacher at a Bucharest high school 
[Spiru Haret]. Until 1989, he was one of the former Securitate's 
informants. Later, he entered the political life. He joined the PNTCD. In 
1996, he was appointed as a deputy director in the Romanian Intelligence 
Service. Many people who were familiar with his past used to blackmail 
him. That is why, from the position he had at that time, he favored many 
fraudulent privatization processes, such as those involving a chain of 
food shops in Bucharest and the Bucharest Hotel. 

    Dan Gheorghe 

    He is a former Securitate officer. He was the deputy commanding 
officer of the special unit in charge of antiterrorism. He was an active 
participant in the attempt to reprimand the street actions that led to 
Nicolae Ceausescu's fall. In December 1989 -- the media also wrote about 
this -- in his capacity as the head of the defense unit at the Otopeni 
International Airport, he allowed approximately 50 Securitate officers to 
flee abroad by using counterfeit documents. After December 1989, he was 
appointed head of the SRI's antiterrorist brigade. For a short while, he 
worked for the UM 0215. This unit had more expertise in the field of the 
political police than in anything else. After that, he was briefly the 
director of the Universul news agency while Sorin Ovidiu Vantu owned it. 
The agency was accused of having been an intelligence service, working in 
parallel with the similar state services. Dan Gherghe came back to the 
SRI as an aide to the body's new director, Radu Timofte. On 1 November 
2001 he resigned from office. However, he continues to be present in 
ruling circles. 

    Gheorghe Gherghina 

    He is a former Securitate officer, Colonel Gheorghe Ardelean's deputy 
(former Moise Bula) at the USLA's [Special Unit To Fight Terrorism] 
leadership. After having been re-trained in the SRI, he was Ion Botofei's 
successor in the leadership of the Former SRI's Officers' Association, 
which is in fact an association of former Securitate officers. He ensures 
the connection between the former Securitate officers currently in the 
SRI's leadership and those in the reserves. 

    Dan Ghibernea 

    Before 1989, a person with an identical name was an undercover 
officer in the former Securitate's espionage department. He was 
accredited as an international civil servant at UNESCO. At the moment, 
the Dan Ghibernea we refer to is Romania's ambassador to the United 
Kingdom. 

    Marius Ghile 

    A former Securitate officer in the Second Directorate for economic 
counterintelligence. He was an expert in Hungarian counterespionage. In 
2000, he was appointed as the head of the SRI Salaj County's branch. 

    Benone Ghinea 

    A former officer in the Securitate's espionage department. After the 
December 1989 events, he was brought back into active service in the SIE. 
He was sent to South Africa as an undercover agent, acting as a 
commercial attache. He involved himself in some suspect deals with Puma 
helicopters and cashed some undue commission fees. He was sent to court 
and received a mild sentence, just "fit" for a former Securitate officer. 

    Mihai Ghita 

    A former Securitate officer, currently a colonel, and head of the 
SRI's Slatina branch. 

    Nicolae Goia 

    A former Securitate officer. Currently a member of the Foreign 
Intelligence Service's leadership. In February 2002, he was promoted to 
the rank of brigadier general. 

    Nicolae Dorel Goron 

    A former Securitate officer. Currently a colonel and the incumbent 
head of the SRI's Arad branch. 

    Grama 

    A former Securitate counterintelligence officer. Following the 
December 1989 events, the SRI rehabilitated him with the rank of a 
Colonel. In a short while, he was appointed as the head of the human 
resources staff in the "G" Division (logistics). 

    Ilie Anghel Gradinaru 

    A former Securitate officer. In the SRI, he was promoted to the 
position of head of the department for religious cult-sects in the SRI 
Constanta County branch. He holds the rank of major. In the spring of 
2000, he was noticed while keeping the PDSR's [Social Democracy Party of 
Romania] staff under surveillance during their visit to Constanta. 

    Corneliu Grigoras 

    A former officer in the Securitate's espionage department. He was 
kept in the system after the events in December 1989, too. On the eve of 
the 1996 elections, he monitored the moves made in the CDR's [Romanian 
Democratic Convention] headquarters for the PDSR's benefit. Nevertheless, 
during Emil Constantinescu's presidential mandate he was promoted to the 
rank of general and appointed to the General Counterespionage Directorate 
in the SIE. Two journalists staged a trap for him. He proved to be a 
stupid person, fell into this trap, and was removed from office. 

    Eugen Grigorescu 

    A former Securitate officer. In the SRI's structures, he was promoted 
to colonel and then to brigadier general. He is the head of the technical 
expertise division, code-named Division "S." 

    Gugiu 

    A former Securitate colonel. When the former SRI Officers' 
Association was set up, he was appointed its cashier. 

    Nicolae Constantin Hateganu 

    A former Securitate officer. Chairman of the Astra Insurance 
Company's administrative board. His role is still unclear in the damages 
brought against the company in Sorin Ovidiu Vantu's favor. He was removed 
from office in March 2001. At the moment, he is being investigated. 

    Ioan Hancu 

    A former Securitate officer. In the SRI, with the rank of colonel, he 
became the deputy head of the Cluj field branch. He was removed from 
office in July 1998. 

    Gheorghe Huidu 

    A former Securitate officer. He kept the Romanian Radio Public 
Station under surveillance. After December 1989, the SRI recovered him 
with the rank of colonel. The project of the extremist magazine Europa, 
led by Ilie Neacsu, was drafted at his residence. Neacsu, a former PRM 
MP, passed with bag and baggage to the PSD. 

    Bujorel Iamandi 

    A former Securitate officer. After being recruited into the SRI, he 
was promoted to the rank of general. He was promoted to the position of 
head of the Counterintelligence Department, currently called the 
Protection Department. He was removed from office following the 
Timofte-KGB [SRI's incumbent director's alleged ties with the KGB] 
scandal. 

    Vasile Valeriu Iancu 

    A former Securitate colonel. Currently, the SRI director's first 
deputy. On 30 November 1999, he was promoted to brigadier general. Before 
December 1989 he worked within the foreign counterintelligence unit in 
the UM 0215, which was set after General Ion Mihai Pacepa's defection. He 
also worked in the UM 0544, for foreign counterintelligence. After the 
revolution, he was appointed the first head of the SRI's 
Counterintelligence Directorate. Then he was appointed as head of the 
SRI's oversight body. 

    Teodor Ilies 

    A former officer in the Securitate's Directorate for Foreign 
Intelligence. At the moment he is in the leading team of the SC 
[commercial company] Alliancecoop. During 1995-1996, the Army's 
Procurement Department contacted him for the purpose of facilitating some 
dubious arms exports. 

    Florian Ioan 

    A former Securitate officer. He was brought back to active service in 
the presidential bodyguard and protection service, where he was promoted 
to colonel. In 1998, he was passed into the reserves due to 
health-related causes. He has placed himself at the disposal of 
controversial businessman Sorin Ovidiu Vantu. In this capacity, he set up 
a paramilitary service in the village of Corbeanca [close to Bucharest]. 
Its missions included surveillance and escort activities, and even 
abducting people. 

    Alexandru Iordache 

    A former Securitate officer and expert in criminal investigations. On 
31 December 1990, he was passed into the reserves, upon request, from the 
Romanian Intelligence Service. He was involved in smuggling cigarettes 
from Cyprus. Through these operations, he brought damages amounting to 
$110 million to the Romanian State. On 15 July 2001, he was brought back 
to active service for a short while in the SRI. At the moment he is a 
personal legal aide to General Zaharia Toma, who is a secretary of state 
in the Interior Ministry. It has been pointed out Iordache allegedly has 
bank accounts in Switzerland at the BNP Schweiz. 

    Nicolae Iosub 

    A former officer in the Securitate's Fourth Directorate. Currently a 
colonel, he is a department head in the Army's General Directorate of 
Intelligence. 

    Virgil Irimia 

    A former higher-ranking Securitate officer. The SRI recovered him 
with the rank of colonel. Immediately after the December 1989 events, he 
became the deputy head of the SRI's Botosani County branch. He was 
removed from office on charges of being involved in deals carried out by 
some dubious companies in that county. 

    Nicolae Irinoiu 

    A former high-ranking officer in the Securitate's espionage 
department. He was kept in the system some time after the 1996 elections. 
He carried out intelligence missions in the United States and in Turkey. 
He was passed into reserves with the rank of general. 

    Juverdeanu 

    A former Securitate officer recovered by the SRI with the rank of 
major. He was passed into the reserves following some blackmail 
activities carried out by resorting to counterfeit documents. 

    Mihai Lazar 

    A former Securitate officer at the Dunarea foreign trade company, 
which was under the Securitate's control. At the moment, he is a general 
manager at Grivco International SA. 

    Pavel Lascut 

    Before 1989, he was an officer within the Foreign Intelligence Center 
[CIE]. He was the office head in the Department for 
France-Benelux-Spain-Portugal in the Europe Division. He also carried out 
missions abroad, under the cover of a commercial representative in Spain 
and Portugal. During the Constantinescu regime, he was appointed as a 
deputy director in the Customs Directorate. 

    Tudor Lica 

    A former Securitate officer. In the summer of 2000, he was appointed 
as head of the department in charge of parallel intelligence offices in 
the SRI's Division "A." 

    Dan Lungu 

    A former Securitate officer. After December 1989, he was employed in 
the SRI's Buzau branch with the rank of captain. It is known that he has 
attempted to recruit a female journalist from the local daily Opinia. 

    Vasile Lupu 

    A former Securitate officer in the UM 0110. Quite inadequately, this 
unit was considered to be a structure meant to fight the KGB agents in 
Romania. In fact, the unit used to manufacture arguments, based on which 
the people who fell into Nicolae Ceausescu's disfavor were charged with 
spying for the Soviet Union. This method was meant to misinform public 
opinion, which was sensitive to any Russian threat. After the December 
1989 events, he was recruited into the SRI's structures. In a short time, 
more precisely on 27 March 1994, he was appointed as head of the 
Counterintelligence Directorate. He was the SRI's first deputy director 
in two legislatures, under Virgil Magureanu and Costin Georgescu's 
mandates. Throughout this period, he made considerable efforts to 
strengthen the former Securitate officers' influence in all fields of 
political, economic, and social life. On 30 November 1999, he was 
promoted to Army Corps general. Much earlier, the media pointed out the 
fact that his successive promotions were the result of intervention by 
influential people whom he had kept under surveillance in the past. Most 
of them are important people in the state. Because he was unable to get 
rid of the specific methods of the UM 0110, he was involved in publicly 
launching the misinformation that the SRI's future director, Radu 
Timofte, was allegedly recruited by the KGB. He was passed into reserves 
as an Army Corps general. 

    Victor Marcu 

    A general in the reserves. He was an active staff member of the 
former Securitate and headed an office within the former Center for 
Foreign Intelligence. He was in charge of Romania's immigration problems. 
Then he was transferred to the Romanian Intelligence Service. For a short 
time, he was director Virgil Magureanu's first deputy. After he had a 
conflict with the latter, Marcu was removed from his position and from 
the SRI in 1995. He was charged with having business relations with Arab 
mafiosi. His records include the obscure coordination of the dubious 
deals developed by the SC Macons & Co SA Company, registered in Belgium. 
His daughter, Anca Steliana Marcu, was the company's main shareholder. 
However, he remained a reliable person at the Cotroceni [presidential] 
palace. At one point, with support from some obscure forces, he succeeded 
in setting up a customs checkpoint downtown Bucharest. He was to 
administer it together with his circle of friends. When the media exposed 
the illegal deal, the customs checkpoint vanished into thin air, as if it 
had never existed. After the November 2000 elections, Victor Marcu was 
appointed deputy minister in the Privatization Ministry. He held the 
position of undersecretary of state. Quite cautiously, he forwarded his 
resignation shortly before the emergence of the scandal around Sorin 
Ovidiu Vantu and the fraudulent deeds that were carried out to the 
detriment of the Astra Insurance Company. 

    Marian Matei 

    A former Securitate officer in the Military Academy's 
counterintelligence department. He is married to the former Communist 
leader Ion Dinca's niece. In December 1989, he was found armed in the PCR 
[Romanian Communist Party] CC's [Central Committee] headquarters. He was 
a lieutenant colonel at the time and was a member of the team appointed 
to protect the former dictator Ceausescu. On 24 March 1990, the SRI 
employed him after intervention by Mihai Stan. A short time later, he was 
promoted to brigadier general. 

    Dumitru Mazilu 

    A former Securitate officer, the former commanding officer at the 
Baneasa Securitate school from 1965-1967. He was removed from office 
following his attempt to counterfeit some documents related to a car 
accident. He was reoriented toward diplomacy. He also played the role of 
dissident. Immediately after December 1989, he emerged on the political 
scene as a vice president of the National Salvation Front's Council. In 
one of the confused days of January 1990, he climbed up on a tank and 
shouted what the civilians that had taken to the streets never did: 
"Death to the former Securitate officers!" After having committed himself 
in something that looked like a coup d'etat, he left for Switzerland for 
quite some time. He came back to Bucharest later, when people had already 
forgotten him. At the moment, he is the vice president of a UN 
commission. 

    Virgil Magureanu 

    The first head of the Romanian Intelligence Service, which was 
officially set up in March 1990. This body started to structure itself in 
the first days of that same year. In April 1992, journalist Ioan Itu 
published Magureanu's file. The latter was a former officer in the 
syntheses department of the Securitate's Foreign Intelligence Directorate 
[DIE]. In December 1995, Magureanu himself published his file as a former 
Securitate informant. Most probably, he had been warned that a major 
publication was about to do the same thing. 

    Vasile Maierean 

    A former Securitate Colonel. He was involved in culture and art 
problems. At the moment, he is working in the SIE. On 30 November 1999, 
he was promoted to brigadier general. 

    Vasile Malureanu 

    A colonel in the former Securitate's structures. A general in the 
current Romanian Intelligence Service's structures. 

    Vlad Margineanu 

    A former Securitate officer, the former head of the SRI's Brasov 
branch. He is one of the Romanian Discount Bank's [BRS] founders. The 
bank was deliberately brought to bankruptcy in 2002, after $17 million 
had disappeared from the Astra Insurance Company's account. 

    Stefan Masu 

    A former high-ranking Securitate officer. After the December 1989 
events, he was briefly the deputy head of the SRI Prahova County's 
branch. Then he started to do businesses on his own. Among other things, 
he was one of the shareholders of the dubious SC Macons & Co. SA Company, 
registered in Belgium. 

    Mecu 

    A high-ranking Securitate officer recovered by the SRI. He was 
promoted to the rank of general. He is the commanding officer of the 
SRI's Bran Office. 

    Teodor Melescanu 

    According to statements by Mircea Raceanu, whom President Iliescu has 
recently granted an award, before 1989, Melescanu was a former Securitate 
officer under diplomatic cover. After the [December 1989] revolution, he 
was appointed foreign minister. Later on, he established the Alliance for 
Romania party [ApR], which he led to total disaster. He ran for president 
and lost. 

    Ilie Merce 

    A former Securitate colonel. He was the head of the art-culture 
department in the former Securitate's First Directorate. During 
1985-1986, he led the Eterul Department, whose mission was to combat the 
foreign radio stations that used to broadcast in Romanian. Later, he was 
appointed head of the Securitate's Buzau County branch. After December 
1989, he remained in the Romanian Intelligence Service. He was removed 
from office due to many inadequate deeds and to the open sabotage carried 
out against the body's leadership. He was passed into the reserves. He 
joined the Greater Romania Party, where he went up the hierarchy, until 
he became the party's first vice president. In the November 2000 
elections, he ran on this party's slates. He was elected as an MP. Later, 
it was proved he had been involved in political police activities. At the 
moment, he is currently involved in a lawsuit filed by the victims of one 
of his deeds. 

    Sever Mesca 

    A former Securitate officer in the espionage department. He carried 
out missions in Italy and the United Kingdom. At the moment, after having 
been an important member of the Greater Romania Party, on whose slates he 
had been elected as an MP, he passed into the PSD's camp. He is currently 
engaged in an argument with the head of his former party. 

    Iosif Mircea Miclea 

    A former Securitate officer, currently a lieutenant colonel, the head 
of the SRI's Maramures County branch. 

    Lionel Micu 

    A former Securitate officer. After the December 1989 events, he 
vanished abroad. At the onset of 1999, he was expelled from Canada after 
being identified as "a member of the former Romanian Securitate and an 
accomplice to many atrocities." 

    Mircea Miron 

    A former Securitate officer. The SRI recovered him. He became the 
first head of the Alba Iulia office. An officer under his subordination 
sent intimidating letters to some opposition members' addresses. 

    Victor Mitran 

    A former Securitate officer in the espionage department. After he 
displayed abnormal behavior during a drill in Yugoslavia, he was 
subjected to a medical checkup. He was found to be suffering from 
paranoia. He was passed into the reserves. Immediately after December 
1989, he was brought back to active service within the SRI. However, he 
damaged the service's image after he published a series of completely 
phantasmagoric information in the media. He also wrote a book full of 
completely stupid things. He continues to create confusion in the public 
opinion on various television shows. 

    Ioan Mocan 

    A former Securitate officer, currently the head of the SRI's 
Bistrita-Nasaud County branch. 

    Cornel Moga 

    A former Securitate officer. During Emil Constantinescu's regime, he 
was appointed as the head of the SRI Bihor County branch. A former 
political prisoner informed the media about the fact that Moga had 
conducted political police activities before 1989. He said the latter had 
searched and had even beaten him. 

    Jean Moldoveanu 

    A former Securitate officer, the former commanding officer of the 
Securitate troops. After the December 1989 events, he was the first head 
of the Romanian Police forces. 

    Gheorghe Moldovan 

    A former Securitate colonel who was recovered by the SRI. In the 
first half of the 1990s, he was appointed as the head of the SRI 
Maramures branch. He was removed from office for having wiretapped some 
UDMR [Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania -- RMDSZ] local leaders' 
phones. He claimed he had carried out this mission at Virgil Magureanu's 
order. However, he failed to provide the slightest evidence in this 
respect. He was sentenced, but his sentence was suspended. 

    Ion Alexandru Munteanu 

    A former Securitate officer within the Independent "D" 
[Misinformation] Service. After that, he was in charge of the 
surveillance of foreign students at the Bucharest University Center. It 
was found he had been involved in various onerous deals with them. He was 
demoted, sent to court, and sentenced to several years in prison. After 
the December 1989 events, he was released from prison. He went through a 
series of dubious promotions. A little more than two years later, he was 
promoted from the rank of a soldier to that of a general. He was 
appointed as general director of the State Archives. He was an important 
member of the Greater Romania Party. Deceased. 

    Vasile Munteanu 

    He is suspected of having been one of the former Securitate's 
undercover officers. The Romanian Intelligence Service took him over, 
too. As the head of the Otopeni cargo customs office, his duties also 
included ensuring the facilities requested by the special transports of 
commodities. He was involved in the Cigarette 2 smuggling deal. 

    Constantin Muraru 

    A former Securitate officer. Currently a colonel, the head of the 
SRI's Suceava County branch. 

    Ionel Muresan 

    A former high-ranking Securitate officer, recovered by the SRI with 
the rank of colonel. In 1998, he was leading the counterintelligence 
service of the department in which he had been employed. 

    Victor Nacu 

    A former Securitate officer, re-employed in the SRI's Bacau County 
branch. Not long ago he was transferred to the Bucharest head unit. 

    Nicolae Nadejde 

    A former colonel in the Securitate's espionage department. In 1983, 
he was appointed as the DIE's representative in a shadow company, Marsue 
Holding, meant to cover the activity carried out by some Romanian agents 
abroad. He retired in 1986 while holding the same position. After 
December 1989, he was compelled to transfer the money in the company's 
bank account to an SRL [limited responsibility company] company's bank 
account. He refused to do it. In 1993, the Foreign Intelligence Service 
filed charges against him for embezzlement of funds. The gesture was far 
from the espionage people's habits, which used to launder their dirty 
linen at home. Consequently, it remains to be seen what is hiding behind 
the Marsue deal. 

    Victor Nanescu 

    A former high-ranking officer in the Securitate's espionage 
department. He was kept in the system not too long after the 1996 
elections. He was passed into the reserves with the rank of general. 

    Toma Nastase 

    A former Securitate colonel within the Independent "D" 
(Misinformation) Department. He was brought back into active service in 
the SRI for a short while. After that, he was passed into the reserves. 
He became an important member of the Greater Romania Party. From that 
position, he used the information obtained while he was in office in 
public life. Deceased. 

    Grigore Neciu 

    A former Securitate officer, [Communist] party secretary of the Cluj 
County Securitate Inspectorate. In 1998, he was the head of the UM 0215 
in Cluj. 

    Aurelian Neferoiu 

    A former Securitate major, the deputy head of the Fifth Office in 
USLA. After December 1989, he was appointed general manager of the state 
office for the government's special problems. In 1997, he was Mircea 
Gheordunescu's deputy at the leadership of the National Agency for the 
Control on Strategic Exports and Chemical Weapons Ban [ANCESIAC]. 

    Misu Negritoiu 

    According to the statements by Mircea Raceanu, whom President Ion 
Iliescu has recently granted an award, Negritoiu was an undercover 
Securitate officer. After 1989, he played an important role in the 
Romanian power structures. 

    Andrei Nica 

    A former Securitate officer, recovered by the SRI with the rank of 
lieutenant colonel. In 1994, he was a member of the "B" 
Counterintelligence Directorate's leadership. 

    Nicolae M Nicolae 

    A former undercover officer in the Foreign Intelligence Directorate. 
He was removed from that position following General Ion Mihai Pacepa's 
defection. He was a former foreign trade minister and Romania's 
ambassador to Washington during Nicolae Ceausescu's regime. In the first 
post-revolutionary Romanian Government, he returned to the leadership of 
Romania's foreign trade. 

    Constantin Nicolescu 

    A former officer in the Securitate's espionage department, currently 
a senator for Arges County. He is the chairman of the Parliament's SIE 
Oversight Committee. 

    Dumitru Nicusor 

    A former Securitate officer. In the SRI, he was the head of the 
Dobruja's Regional Operational Center. In 1994, he was promoted to the 
rank of brigadier general. 

    Carol Nihta 

    A former Securitate officer. Currently a lieutenant colonel, the head 
of the SRI's Resita branch, Caras-Severin County. 

    Ogasanu 

    A former Securitate officer, re-employed by the SRI. With the rank of 
general, he led the SRI's Operation Center in Transylvania. After passing 
into the reserves, he became the director of the Gelsor branch in Oradea. 
He played an important role in the National Investment Fund's [FNI] 
collapse. 

    Emil Olariu 

    A former high-ranking Securitate officer, recovered by the SRI, with 
the rank of colonel. In 1998, he worked in the SRI's Harghita County 
branch. 

    Otelea 

    General Otelea's son, from the Steaua sports club. He was an officer 
in the Securitate's Fourth Directorate. At the moment, he is a colonel in 
the Army's General Directorate for Intelligence. 

    Valerica Pamfil 

    A former Securitate officer. In the SRI, he was appointed as office 
head in the Anti-terrorist Brigade with the rank of lieutenant colonel. 
He was charged with influence peddling. 

    Gheorghe Pasc 

    He was a former Securitate major before 1989. Later, during Virgil 
Magureanu's mandate, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel 
and then to colonel. He was promoted as head of the "F" Division in the 
SRI, which used to store computer data and managed the institution's 
archives. Before the establishment of the National Council in Charge of 
Studying the Former Securitate Archives [CNSAS], a civil body that should 
be the same thing as the Gauck Institute in Germany, he retired due to 
health-related problems. He set up a security guard and protection 
company. In 1999, when the CNSAS was established, nobody knows what 
methods he used, but he succeeded in obtaining the exclusive right for 
his company to ensure the guarding and protection for the aforementioned 
council. At the CNSAS' headquarters, he installed various pieces of 
special equipment. Supposedly, many microphones controlled from outside 
are among these devices. Thus, those who reportedly have to study the 
former Securitate's behavior are still at the Securitate's mercy. All of 
their moves are allegedly being kept under control. 

    Petre Pavel 

    A former Securitate officer, taken over in the SRI's structures with 
rank of colonel. After having passed into the reserves, he helped 
manufacture a counterfeit commitment in the Division "S" laboratories, 
proving its author was as a former Securitate informant, to Senator 
Corneliu Vadim Tudor's detriment and to the benefit of Ziua. 

    George Constantin Paunescu 

    A former undercover Securitate officer. In this capacity, before 
1989, he led the Romanian Economic Agency in Milan. He was and perhaps 
still is banned from entering Italy. The Italian special services know 
more about him than the SRI claims to know. He runs his operations in 
Italy via a branch in the Swiss canton of Ticino. In 1996, when he was 
subjected to some criminal investigations, he fled the country, at first 
to Switzerland, under the pretext of a medical treatment. Then he settled 
temporarily in the United States. From that position, he sponsored 
several of Ion Iliescu and Adrian Nastase's trips across the Atlantic 
Ocean, with the help of the lobbyist called the Eurasia Group, with a 
majority Russian capital. 

    Petru Pele 

    A former Securitate officer. In the SRI, he was appointed head of the 
SRI's Timisoara branch. He had a conflict with Virgil Magureanu. His 
file, which proved he was a former collaborator for the local Securitate, 
was made public. He was removed from the system and currently has 
dedicated himself to his businesses. 

    Cornel Pentelie 

    A former Securitate officer. He was later promoted to the rank of 
major within the SRI. His true name has the initials DM. He worked under 
General Dumitru Badescu, who was the head of the division in charge of 
economic counterintelligence. He was present in the unit that carried out 
the "Cigarette 2" smuggling operation. He was identified as such on the 
video recordings made at the airport. 

    Corneliu Petre 

    A former Securitate officer in the Third Directorate for 
Counterespionage. After December 1989, he was passed into the reserves. 
Later, he involved himself in various businesses with persons working for 
the Russian Lukoil Company. 

    Stelian Pintilie 

    A former Securitate General, appointed as the minister of postal 
services and telecommunications in the first government after December 
1989. At the moment, he is running various businesses, also in the 
telecommunications field, along with STS head General Tudor Tanase. Among 
other things, he worked as a councilor to the Ericsson Company, which was 
among the main players involved in the scandal related to the Romanian 
Army's transmissions system. 

    Ion Pinta 

    A former Securitate officer. He was the first head of the SRI's Gorj 
County branch. He had the rank of colonel. He took part in the June 1990 
miners' incursion. He directed the miners' travel to Bucharest. Later, he 
was employed in SRI's central unit in Bucharest. In May 2001, he had the 
same position, although the legal system's bodies were conducting an 
investigation against him. He was charged with undermining state power. 

    Radu Podgoreanu 

    A former Securitate general's son-in-law. At the moment, he is the 
chairman of the Chamber of Deputies' Foreign Policy Committee. 

    Gabriel Polmolea 

    A former Securitate officer in Brasov. The SRI took him over. At 
first, he was the deputy head of the SRI's Dolj County branch. When his 
superior was ousted, he was appointed leader of the branch. In June 1994, 
he was appointed head of the Oltenia Region's Operational Center. 

    Dumitru Pop 

    A former Securitate officer. In the SRI, with the rank of a colonel, 
he was appointed as the deputy head of the SRI's Cluj County branch. He 
was removed from office in July 1998. 

    Viorel Pop 

    A former Securitate officer, re-trained in the SRI with the rank of 
lieutenant colonel. He was Gheorghe Moldovan's subordinate in the SRI's 
Maramures County branch. It has been reported he used to provide 
information from inside the service to the PUNR [Romanian National Unity 
Party]. 

    Ioan Popa 

    A former officer in the Securitate's espionage department, re-trained 
in the SIE, with the rank of colonel. He headed the Directorate for 
Synthesis and Analysis for some time. 

    Doru Popescu 

    A former Securitate officer. After the December 1989 events, he fled 
abroad and disappeared. In early 1999, he was expelled from Canada after 
being identified as "a member of the former Romanian Securitate and an 
accomplice to many atrocities." 

    Ion Popescu 

    A former Securitate colonel. During his espionage-related activities 
in Paris, his mission was to compromise priest Vasile Boldeanu and to 
transfer the Romanian Christian Orthodox Church in France's capital under 
the Bucharest Patriarchy's authority. His mission failed. He was asked to 
return to Romania. He continued to work as an undercover officer. He was 
appointed as the head of the Department for Religious Cults. After 
December 1989, with support from some high-ranking clergy, with whom he 
had probably used to work, he set up the International Bank of Religions. 
The dubious sponsorships, along with the mismanagement of funds, have 
ultimately brought this bank's sonorous bankruptcy. Other former 
Securitate officers, tied to the incumbent ruling party, were also 
involved in this bankruptcy. 

    Poporoaga 

    A former low-ranking Securitate officer, recovered by the SRI, in the 
surveillance division. He fell into a trap on the occasion of the Anda 
Terrace scandal. 

    Alexandru Constantin Postelnicu 

    A former Securitate officer. After the December 1989 events, he was 
promoted to the rank of general and he was the first head of the SRI's 
Dolj County branch. He tried to recruit journalists from troublesome 
media circles in Craiova. The local media focused on his activities. It 
succeeded in taking his picture in a professional situation. He was 
removed from office. Obviously, he has started to run his own businesses. 

    Ioan Preda 

    A former Securitate officer. In the SRI, with the rank of colonel, he 
was appointed as head of the Constanta County branch. 

    Ristea Priboi 

    A former Securitate colonel. He was an active staff member of the UM 
0199, which was a sub-unit of the espionage department, which dealt with 
European territory. Starting in May 1988, he was transferred to the UM 
0225, another sub-unit dealing with espionage activities. This unit was 
involved in infiltrating Romanian immigrants in Europe and fighting the 
foreign radio stations that used to broadcast in Romanian. Some former 
Securitate officers say that, before 1989, he trained incumbent Romanian 
Prime Minister Adrian Nastase to place him in the West as an undercover 
agent. The operation was to take place in 1990. However, the December 
1989 revolution triggered the project's cancellation. Later, Ristea 
Priboi became Adrian Nastase's aide. Allegations say he is very close to 
the prime minister. Following the November 2000 elections, Adrian Nastase 
tried to impose Priboi as the head of the Parliament's SIE Oversight 
Committee. The deal failed, following the forceful intervention by the 
media, which had managed to find a few facts about Ristea Priboi's past. 
He remained Adrian Nastase's aide. From his position, he makes it easier 
for other former Securitate officers to enter the ruling party's 
structures and, implicitly, the state bodies. In December 2000, Ristea 
Priboi was imposed as a member of the administrative board of the SIF 
[Financial Investment Company] Oltenia. This allowed him to control the 
economic activities carried out in one of the country's important 
regions, in collaboration with another former Securitate officer, Dinut 
Staicu. A group of former Securitate officers has recently forwarded to 
the major media's editorial offices, to some parties, and institutions' 
headquarters, a letter that states that his former comrades also dislike 
Ristea Priboi. This letter calls the character with the comradely name 
"Pig!" We also happen to be familiar with some things about how Ristea 
Priboi plots against the incumbent prime minister's political opponents. 
It is impossible to explain how a cultivated person, with an education 
achieved in normal conditions, with masters and doctoral degrees, who has 
often traveled to Western countries and speaks several foreign languages, 
like Nastase, can bear to have such an aide close to him. 

    Dumitru Prichici 

    A former officer in the State Securitate Department's technical 
divisions. After December 1989, as an associate of the Zenith Trading 
Consulting Company, he illegally manufactured and traded devices for 
wiretapping phones. He involved his son, Codrut Prichici, in these 
activities, too. In the fall of 1997, after having exposed himself at a 
television station, he was sent to court. He was charged with violating 
the National Security Law. 

    Florin Radu 

    A former Securitate officer, recovered by the SRI with the rank of 
major. After having passed into the reserves, he launched himself in 
business. In 1997, he was subjected to an investigation for outstanding 
debts incurred by a bank loan. In 1998, the Democratic Party [PD] 
nominated him to be appointed as the head of the Financial Oversight Body 
in Buzau County. 

    Nicolae Radu 

    A former Securitate officer. He was taken over by the SRI with the 
rank of colonel. He led the SRI's Galati County branch. In the spring of 
1994, he was transferred to Bucharest and promoted both to a higher 
position and to a higher rank. 

    Niculae Radu 

    A former Securitate officer, he was re-trained in the SRI. He was 
appointed as the head of the counterespionage office at the SRI's 
Botosani County branch. He was removed from office for alleged 
involvement in the deals carried out by some dubious companies in that 
county. 

    Ion Raita 

    A former Security major, recovered by the SRI. At the onset of the 
1990s, he was appointed as the head of the SRI's office in Sinaia. He was 
passed into the reserves following the protests voiced by those who had 
been subjected to his investigations before December 1989. In 1992, he 
ran for mayor of Sinaia as an independent candidate. 

    Stefan Ramfu 

    A former Securitate colonel, employed in the Independent 
Misinformation Department. Among other things, he used to launch some 
fake stories abroad. According to them, some dissidents that could not be 
kept in the country anymore had allegedly been among the former 
Securitate's agents. Mathematician Mihai Botez was one of the persons who 
was subjected to this despicable treatment. At the moment, Ramfu is 
delivering expert training at the National Intelligence Institute. 

    Gheorghe Ratiu 

    A former Securitate colonel, the former head of the Securitate's 
First Directorate in charge of domestic intelligence during 1986-1989. 
Immediately after the December 1989 revolution, he left Romania and went 
abroad. He went to West Germany and returned to Romania from... China 
after things settled down a little bit. At the moment, he is one of 
businessman Sorin Ovidiu Vantu's most important councilors. 

    Marian Rizea 

    A former Securitate officer. He was later recruited to the SRI's 
structures. He led the SRI's Dambovita County branch. 

    Aurel Rogojanu 

    A former Securitate colonel, the former head of General Iulian Vlad's 
secretarial office. The latter was the head of the State Security's 
Directorate. When he retired from the SRI, he published a book that 
justifies the former Securitate's actions. At the moment, he is SRI 
Director Radu Timofte's aide. 

    Viorel Ros 

    A former Securitate officer, he graduated from the Baneasa School for 
active staff members of the Interior Ministry. He worked for the UM 0279 
as an expert in foreign intelligence. Starting in 1979, when he was 
passed into the reserves, he worked in the legal system. In 1993, he was 
appointed as chairman of the Bucharest Court of Justice. 

    Constantin Rotaru 

    A former Securitate colonel, currently a general, the deputy director 
of the Foreign Intelligence Service. Before December 1989, he was the 
deputy director at the ICE [foreign trade company] Dunarea. He remained 
in that positions in the early 1990s, too. He left the system 
temporarily. He led the Intact media trust. He has a close collaboration 
with businessman Dan Voiculescu [owner of the Antena 1 private television 
station] at the moment. The latter was the endorser of the Crescent 
Company, another one of the former Securitate companies, with its 
headquarters Cyprus. In fact, according to the information published by 
the media, through General Constantin Rotaru, the SIE manages and grants 
protection to several of Dan Voiculescu's companies. 

    Cornel Rudareanu 

    A former Securitate colonel. At the moment, he is one of businessman 
Sorin Ovidiu Vantu's advisers. 

    Valer Rus 

    The former head of the SRI's Turda branch. He is an expert in 
irredentism-related matters. The SRI took him over in its structures with 
the rank of Colonel, as an expert in the problems of ethnic minorities. 
In 1998, he was the head of the SPP's [Guard and Protection Service] 
structure in Transylvania. 

    Rusan 

    A former high-ranking Securitate officer, recovered by the SRI, with 
the rank of colonel. Before December 1989, he used to work hand in hand 
with General Vasile Lupu, who took Rusan with him. In the mid-1990s, 
Colonel Rusan was appointed head of the Surveillance Directorate. 

    Ion Rusu 

    Alias Ion Prigoreanu. A former Securitate major. He was a French 
teacher at the Interior Ministry's school for active officers at Baneasa. 
In the years before December 1989, he worked as an undercover agent, as 
an employee of the Agerpres news agency. Immediately after December 1989, 
he was appointed as a general secretary of Zig Zag magazine's editorial 
office (the Ion Cristoiu series). At present he teaches French at a 
Bucharest high school, after having earned his doctorate on the basis of 
articles written by other people. 

    Vasile Rusu 

    A former high-ranking officer in the Securitate's espionage 
department. After December 1989, he continued to work within the SIE. In 
March 1998, after being promoted to the rank of brigadier general, he was 
passed into the reserves. 

    Ion Savonea 

    A former Securitate first lieutenant in Sinaia. During the first 
months of 1990, he was involved in the violation of the local Securitate 
archives' seals. 

    Ion Sabareanu 

    A former Securitate officer. In the SRI, he was appointed deputy head 
of the antiterrorist Brigade, with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was 
charged with influence peddling. 

    Cornel Satmareanu 

    A former officer in the former Securitate military counter-espionage 
and counter-intelligence departments (Third and Fourth Directorates, 
respectively). He was passed into the reserves in 1991. However, he was 
kept in the structures parallel to the active structures. In 1999, he was 
asked to testify as a defense witness in the lawsuit filed by former 
President Emil Constantinescu against Andrei Zeno. The latter accused the 
head of state of being a foreign power's alleged agent. 

    Vasile Secares 

    According to statements by Mircea Raceanu, whom President Ion Iliescu 
has recently granted an award, Secares was an undercover Securitate 
officer before 1989. He was a member of the teaching staff at the 
[former] "Stefan Gheorghiu" [only for party members in leading communist 
structures] Academy. After the December 1989 Revolution, he became an 
important member of the innovative group "A Future for Romania." At 
present, he is the rector of the Academy for Political and Administrative 
Sciences. This is also some kind of "Stefan Gheorghiu," but with a 
different shape. 

    Constantin Silinescu 

    A former Securitate colonel. He was an operative agent abroad during 
1974-1984. He was an office head in the communist espionage department. 
After December 1989, he was kept in the system. He was promoted to 
general. He was promoted to be deputy director of the Foreign 
Intelligence Service. He collaborated with General Florentin Popa in 
operations involving arms trafficking. Following a conflict with General 
Ioan Talpes, the SIE director, he was passed into the reserves. After the 
2000 elections, he became one of Prime Minister Adrian Nastase's aides. 
He currently holds the same position. 

    Ion Tomita Sima 

    A former Securitate officer. He was a colonel, with a PhD in 
engineering, in the Special Telecommunications Service. On 30 November 
1999, he was promoted to brigadier general. 

    Tiberiu Simon 

    A former Securitate officer. He is currently a lieutenant colonel and 
the head of the SRI's Bacau County branch. 

    Ovidiu Soare 

    A former Securitate officer within the Fifth Directorate, which dealt 
with ensuring the guard and protection of former Communist dignitaries. 
He ensured Nicu Ceausescu's protection and guard and then that of 
Alexandrina Gainuse. During the December 1989 events, he sought refuge in 
the Militia's Section 1. At present, he is the head of the SRI's "A" 
Division. 

    Vlad Soare 

    A former Securitate undercover officer in the Romanian Bank for 
Foreign Trade [Bancorex]. He contributed to the bank's bankruptcy after 
December 1989. At present, he is the chairman of the Gelsor financial 
group, which is the property of businessman Sorin Ovidiu Vantu. 

    Sobolu 

    A former officer in the Securitate's Fourth Directorate. He is 
currently a colonel and an office head in the Army's General Directorate 
for Intelligence. 

    George Sotir 

    A former officer in the Securitate's Fourth Directorate. At present, 
he is a colonel and the head of the Air Forces service in the Army's 
General Directorate for Intelligence. 

    Ilie Suba 

    A former Securitate officer in the Bucharest Municipality's branch. 
He was an expert in youth- and student-related problems. After the 
December 1989 events, he went vanished. He returned to public life in 
April 1990 as an SRI officer. He led the Antiterrorist Brigade. He was an 
adviser to Senator Sergiu Nicolaescu's parliamentary commission, which 
dealt with the investigation of the December 1989 events. In 1997, he 
passed into the reserves. Later, he was appointed as head of the Protocol 
Department and staff's protection at the World Trade Center. 

    Dinel Staicu 

    A former Securitate officer in the Dolj County inspectorate. After 
December 1989, to cover up his deeds, he developed some businesses that 
were not too legal in Hunedoara County. He took advantage of that 
county's status as a disadvantaged area. When things calmed down a 
little, he returned to Craiova. He played a significant role in the 
International Bank of Religions' bankruptcy. At present, he controls SIF 
Oltenia through various intermediaries. He is closely tied to businessman 
Sorin Ovidiu Vantu and to Ristea Priboi, Prime Minister Adrian Nastase's 
aide. 

    Laurentiu Stamatescu 

    A former Securitate major in the counterintelligence department in 
Covasna County. During the events in December 1989, he was involved in 
the deadly shooting of engineer Gheorghe Suiu. Later, he was recruited by 
the Romanian Intelligence Service. He was promoted to the rank of colonel 
and to the position of head of the Covasna County branch. 

    Gelu Stan 

    A former Securitate officer, who dealt with religious cult-related 
problems. In 1998, he was secretary of the Cluj branch of the [former] 
National Romanian Party [PNR], chaired by Virgil Magureanu. 

    Mihai Stan 

    A former Securitate colonel in the Independent Misinformation 
Department. After December 1989, he became SRI Director Virgil 
Magureanu's deputy. He was promoted to general. Following the Berevoiesti 
deal, he was removed from office. This scandal involved the mismanagement 
of the transportation of some documents belonging to the former 
Securitate. He was then appointed head of the Directorate for 
International Relationships in the Private Ownership Fund. Soon 
afterward, he was appointed head of the Center for Operational 
Documentation of the Guard and Protection Service. He was again removed 
from office against the backdrop of the scandal triggered by the 
Cigarette 2 state smuggling operation. At present, he is nothing less 
than the general director at the... Organization for Human Rights 
Protection in Romania. 

    Ion Stanescu 

    A former Securitate officer, currently a lieutenant colonel and head 
of the SRI's Ploiesti branch. 

    Ion Stoica 

    A former Securitate colonel. Before 1989, he worked in the 
Securitate's Bucharest Municipality branch. After 1989, he was 
reintegrated into the SRI. To lose any trace of him, he was transferred 
to the position of head of the SRI's Dambovita County branch. When things 
calmed down a little, he was invited back to Bucharest. When Virgil 
Magureanu was replaced, he retired. He was immediately hired to become an 
aide to Adrian Nastase, whose party was in opposition at the time. After 
the November 2000 elections, he kept the same position. In parallel, he 
was the head of the domestic protection department at the International 
Bank of Religions. A gang of former Securitate officers brought the bank 
to bankruptcy. When Adrian Nastase was appointed as the country's prime 
minister, Stoica was honored with the position of deputy general director 
of the Romanian customs system. 

    Ion Sandru 

    A former Securitate colonel employed by the Romanian Intelligence 
Service after 1989. In 1997, he was passed into the reserves. He is 
considered to be a member of Mircea Gheordunescu's entourage, one of the 
SRI's deputy directors. After having passed into the reserves, he was 
appointed head of the legal office at the International Bank of Religions 
[BIR]. Another former Securitate officer, Colonel Ion Popescu established 
and chaired this bank. The depositors' savings were wasted. The bank went 
bankrupt in 2000. Later, on behalf of Mircea Gheordunescu, he was also 
involved in the privatization process of the Bucharest Hotel. He acted to 
the detriment of many honest investors and to the benefit of a genuine 
mafiosi ring made up of financial frauds. Later, he was appointed as a 
legal expert and an AGA [Shareholders' General Assembly] secretary at the 
SC Bucharest-Turism SA. 

    Constantin Serban 

    A former Securitate officer from the UM 0110. After that, the SRI 
incorporated him into its structures. Until the spring of 1998, he was 
head of the SRI's Targu Mures branch. At that time, he entered the 
reserves with the rank of colonel. He was brought back to active service 
in 1998, when he was appointed as the head of the SRI's Cluj County 
branch. 

    Bebe Serbanescu 

    A former Securitate officer, re-employed in the SRI's structures. He 
is Dinel Staicu's godson. When he gave up his job, he started to import 
listening and recording devices from abroad, used in his godfather's 
dubious connections in Craiova. 

    Ion Serbanoiu 

    A former higher-ranking Securitate officer. He was a general, the 
head of the Cluj County's Securitate Inspectorate. After the December 
1989 events, he was in charge of the guard and protection system at the 
Dacia Felix Bank, which was soon brought to bankruptcy. 

    Alexandru Somlea 

    A former Securitate officer, restored by the SRI with the rank of 
colonel. After having passed into the reserves, he became the co-owner of 
a company in the Civic Center. 

    Marian Stefan 

    A former Securitate officer. Currently a colonel, the head of the 
SRI's Timisoara branch. 

    Ion Manole Stefanut 

    A former Securitate officer, recovered by the SRI. On 30 November 
1999, he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general. 

    Ion Stirbu 

    A former Securitate officer. Before December 1989, he was a member of 
the team that ensured Nicolae Ceausescu's guard. He was passed into the 
reserves with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was appointed deputy 
director at the Galati customs office. In the spring of 1994, he was 
brought back to active service. He was employed as the head of the SRI's 
Galati County branch. 

    Tudor Tanase 

    During 1976-1978, he was an officer in the Foreign Intelligence 
Directorate. During 1978-1989, he worked in the Special Unit "R" in the 
State Security Directorate. In 1993, Nicolae Vacaroiu's government 
re-employed him in the Special Telecommunications Service. He involved 
himself in many private deals, based on obscure funds, together with 
former Securitate General Stelian Pintilie. In May 2001, although his 
participation in companies with similar objects of activity had not yet 
been wound up, he was appointed as head of the Special Telecommunications 
Service, with the rank of general. The incumbent government did not take 
into account any of the warning signals sent by the media. 

    Alexandru Tanasescu 

    A former Securitate General, passed into the reserves in 1999. He was 
an active officer in the former Directorate for Foreign Intelligence. He 
carried out several missions abroad for the aforementioned body, mainly 
in the United States. After December 1989, he was kept in the Foreign 
Intelligence Service's structure. He went up the hierarchy, until he was 
appointed its first deputy director. He was the topic of frequent media 
campaigns. He was removed from the espionage service in 2000. Later, he 
was appointed as an adviser to the director of the Aedificia Carpati 
construction trust. This trust had built the SIE's current headquarters 
in Baneasa. Its director, Petre Badea, owed Alexandru Tanasescu a few 
favors, because his company had been favored in the bid. We would like to 
point out the fact that the Aedificia Carpati construction trust, with 
the help of some other former Securitate officers, has benefited and 
continues to benefit from important orders from the state. We may list 
the National Library, the consolidation works of the Telephones' Palace, 
the Special Telecommunications System's headquarters, the repair works at 
the Royal Palace, and so forth. Everybody kept taking from Petre Badea 
until they led him to the verge of bankruptcy. 

    Ion Tanasoiu 

    A former undercover Securitate officer. He acted mainly in the 
Benelux region. Through his children, Oana and Nineta, he was involved in 
the SC Macons & Co SA's dubious deals, a company that was registered in 
Belgium. 

    Razvan Temesan 

    A former undercover Securitate officer at the Romanian Bank for 
Foreign Trade. After December 1989, he was appointed as the bank's 
director. He remained in that position until he led the bank to 
bankruptcy. Although he was brought to court and was held in preventive 
custody, he succeeded in getting off scot-free. At present, it should be 
noted that he is deeply involved in Sorin Ovidiu Vantu's deals, in his 
capacity as an adviser to the much-contested Romanian Discount Bank. He 
has been recently proposed to be appointed as a manager at the Romanian 
Commercial Bank. It is desirable that he would fail to bring this bank to 
bankruptcy, too, to make us privatize it at the cost of one euro. 

    Teodor 

    A former officer in the former Securitate's Fourth Directorate. At 
present, he is a colonel. He is the deputy office head within the Army's 
General Directorate for Intelligence. 

    Aurel Teodorescu 

    A former Securitate officer in Bucharest. After December 1989, he 
worked as a commissioner in the Financial Oversight Body, as head of a 
department in the Bucharest City Hall, and then as a deputy director at 
the Customs General Directorate. The media paid attention to him because 
he favored dubious cigarette shipments. 

    Teslovan 

    A former Securitate officer, recovered by the SRI with the rank of 
colonel. In 1998, he worked in the SRI's Harghita County branch. 

    Tinca 

    A former high-ranking Securitate officer, recovered by the SRI. He 
led the Oradea Regional Operational Center. 

    Tinca 

    A former low-ranking Securitate officer recovered by the SRI in the 
Surveillance Department. He fell into the trap during the Anda Terrace 
scandal. 


    Gheorghe Tinca 

    According the statements by Mircea Raceanu, whom President Ion 
Iliescu has recently granted an award, Tinca was a former Securitate 
officer who worked undercover in the Foreign Ministry. At the onset of 
the 1980s, the United States refused to grant him an entry visa. In 1994, 
he was appointed defense minister. Later, he joined the ApR, Teodor 
Melescanu's bankrupt political party. At present, he is Romania's 
ambassador in Prague. 

    Radu Tinu 

    A former Securitate major, deputy head of the Timis County's 
Securitate Inspectorate. He was in charge of the misinformation and 
counterespionage departments. He was arrested in December 1989. He was 
subjected to an investigation as a member of the Timisoara lot. After a 
little more than two years, he was released from prison due to a lack of 
evidence. Along with Valentin Ciuca, he set up the Tival Impex SRL 
Company, which thrived during the embargo against Yugoslavia. Although he 
declared he would not want the return of the communism, all of his 
published statements speak extremely highly of the former Securitate. 

    Maria Tiriboi 

    A former Securitate officer. She was in charge of surveillance at the 
Institute for Research and Technological Design for Transportation 
Activities. She returned to the institution in 1992, this time as an SRI 
officer. 

    Gheorghe Toader 

    A former officer in the Securitate's espionage department. Under Ioan 
Talpes' mandate, he was the SIE's deputy director. In December 1994, he 
was promoted to the rank of brigadier general. He was passed into the 
reserves on 3 April 2000. 

    Constantin Toma 

    A former high-ranking Securitate officer. The SRI recovered him. He 
was the deputy head of the SRI's Bacau branch and then its acting head. 
He was appointed as such in January 1998. 

    Alexandru Tonescu 

    A former high-ranking Securitate officer. At present, he is a general 
and a member of the SRI's central leadership. 

    Ioan Trifu 

    A former Securitate officer. Until January 2002, he led the SRI's 
Bistrita-Nasaud County branch. 

    Alin Vivian Tudose 

    A former Securitate colonel in the Second Directorate in charge of 
economic counterintelligence. No evidence proves he had been re-trained 
in the SRI. However, in the fall of 1999, he published in the media the 
information that Radu Campeanu [liberal politician, former presidential 
candidate in 1990] used to work for the former Securitate. This kind of 
misinformation is not sent to the public at random. This kind of activity 
is carried out in an organized framework. It also depends on the SRI's 
Securitate-oriented leadership's momentary interests. 

    Romica Turcanu 

    A former Securitate officer. Immediately after the December 1989 
events, the SRI recovered him with the rank of colonel. He was appointed 
as head of the SRI's Botosani County branch. He was removed from office 
following his involvement in the financial pyramid scheme Caritas. 

    Olimpian Ungherea 

    A former Securitate officer. At first, he worked in the Craiova 
Inspectorate. He was transferred to Bucharest, where he was in charge of 
the Interior Ministry's Pentru Patrie magazine. He wrote thrillers. After 
December 1989, he was appointed as the PDSR's media councilor. He was the 
vice president of the PDSR's Sector 3 Bucharest branch. In 1997, at a 
signal from behind the scenes, he forwarded his resignation in a 
boisterous manner. He also wrote a book in which he mocked Ion Iliescu. 

    Marian Ureche 

    A former Securitate colonel. He is the former deputy head of the 
First Directorate in charge of domestic intelligence. He was involved in 
activities aimed at combating the foreign radio stations that used to 
broadcast in Romanian. When he retired from the SRI, he collaborated on a 
book that contains extremely high praise for the former Securitate. 
Following the 2000 elections, he was appointed head of the Independent 
Department for Protection and is in charge of the fight against 
corruption in the Justice Ministry. 

    Gavrila Valean 

    He is a former officer in the Securitate's Foreign Intelligence 
Directorate. At present, he is a member of the SC Alliancecoop's 
leadership. During 1995-1996, the Army's Procurement Department contacted 
him to facilitate some dubious arms exports. 

    Constantin Valceanu 

    A former Securitate officer. He was an expert in arms exports. In 
1997, he was appointed as Mircea Gheordunescu's deputy in the leadership 
of the National Agency for the Control of Strategic Exports and Chemical 
Weapons Ban. Later, he was appointed as general director of the Pro 
Romania Consulting Company. 

    Victor Veliscu 

    He is a former Securitate officer who passed into the reserves after 
December 1989. At present he is SRI Director Radu Timofte's main aide. 
The latter is a former Border Guard officer who does not have any 
expertise in the field of intelligence. In Timofte's name, Victor Veliscu 
does and undoes everything in the SRI. He acts to the former Securitate 
officer's constant benefit, to the detriment of those who graduated from 
the National Intelligence Institute. Victor Veliscu is known for his 
extremely close ties with Sorin Ovidiu Vantu, a businessman who is expert 
in fraudulent operations and who has spread his tentacles over the entire 
Romanian financial-banking sector. Veliscu has also worked for the latter 
for a number of years. 

    Gheorghe Vicol 

    A former Securitate officer. In 1998, he was the head of the SRI's 
Onesti branch, in Bacau County. 

    Mihai Vidican 

    A former Securitate officer. After December 1989, he was employed in 
the SRI's structures at the Timisoara branch office. Following a scandal 
related to the collection of some signatures in favor of Viorel 
Salagean's candidacy for president, he retired. The SRI's branches in 
Transylvania also took part in that difficult task. 

    Florin Viisoreanu 

    A former Securitate officer in Giurgiu. Following the December 1989 
events, he was transferred to the SRI's office in the town of Alexandria. 
He is a typical example of the changes performed at the former 
Securitate's staff level to lose track of some officers who had been 
previously involved in despicable activities. 

    Tanase Vizitiu 

    A former Securitate officer. After the December 1989 events, he was 
recruited into the SRI's Antiterrorist Brigade, in its troops deployed at 
the Otopeni International Airport. In 1992, it was discovered he used to 
deliver job-related information to the Europa magazine, edited by Ilie 
Neacsu. The latter used to be a PRM MP until not long ago. He has 
recently joined the PSD. 

    Dan Vladu 

    A former Securitate officer. In the SRI, he was appointed head of the 
counterespionage department in the Constanta County branch. In the spring 
of 2000, he made himself obvious because he conducted surveillance on the 
PDSR staff members who were visiting the locality. 

    Teodor Vlaicu 

    A former high ranking Securitate officer. The SRI recovered him with 
the rank of colonel. Before December 1989, he led the counterintelligence 
department in Cluj. He was assigned the same mission for the entire 
Transylvania area after the establishment of the SRI. His son was 
employed at the SRI's Cluj branch, even though he did not have the 
training needed for this job. 

    Ioan Vladut 

    A former Securitate officer. He was among the first commanding 
officers of the SRI's Oltenia Regional Operational Center. He had the 
rank of lieutenant colonel. 

    Ilie Vranceanu 

    A former Securitate officer. He is the former head of the National 
Investment Fund in Bistrita County. Sorin Ovidiu Vantu brought the fund 
to bankruptcy because he fraudulently appropriated most of the 300,000 
depositors' money. 

    Ion Zahiu 

    A former Securitate officer. After the December 1989 events, he was 
recruited into the SRI's structures. He was promoted to the rank of 
colonel and to the position of head of the SRI's Buzau County branch. 
After having passed into the reserves, he was employed as the director of 
the DHL branch in Romania. 

    Dumitru Zamfir 

    A former Securitate colonel, at present an SRI general. He is the 
head of the department that also deals with wiretapping phone 
conversations. On 30 November 1999 he was promoted to the rank of 
brigadier general. Those who know him say he reportedly got rich due by 
embezzling funds from the SRI's budget. 

    Grigore Zagarin 

    A former Securitate officer. The SRI took him over in its structures. 
He was promoted to the rank of colonel and then to brigadier general. He 
has recently retired from the position of head of the counterespionage 
division. 

    Andrei Zeno 

    A former Securitate officer. After December 1989, he was passed into 
the reserves. Under Emil Constantinescu's presidential mandate, he 
accused the head of state of having allegedly been the agent of a foreign 
power. The PRM has managed his declarations in such a manner to make them 
generate an extremely sonorous scandal. Andrei Zeno was sentenced, but 
his sentence was suspended. He was elected a PRM MP. Deceased. 

[Description of Source: Bucharest Ziua in Romanian -- popular, privately 
owned daily; generally critical of the political establishment across the 
board]