List of senior Securitate officers

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This is a list of senior

Ministry of Internal Affairs on a large scale, with help from SMERSH, an NKVD unit charged with demolishing existing intelligence agencies and replacing them with Soviet-style bodies in the Soviet-occupied countries of Eastern Europe
.

From its inception, the Securitate engaged in a terror campaign against "

Minister of Interior by Teohari Georgescu in 1948–1952, and Alexandru Drăghici in 1952–1965, seconded in the position of Deputy Interior Minister (until 1960) and Chief of Securitate by Gheorghe Pintilie
. Although the largest number of victims was registered between 1948 and 1952, the campaign continued until 1965.

Top leaders

Leaders of the Securitate in 1948

In 1948, the Securitate had a personnel of 3,973 of all ranks; of those, 1,151 belonged to the national directorates and 2,822 to the regional directorates.[1]

Top leadership

  • Director General: lieutenant general Gheorghe Pintilie
  • Deputy Directors: major general Alexandru Nicolschi, major general Vladimir Mazuru [ro]
  • Registrar Office:
    • Director: major Wilhelm Einhorn [ro]
    • Office Chiefs: captain Dumitru Donescu, captain Emanoil Schmerler
    • Section Chiefs: captain Nicolae Mateescu, captain Alexandru Jurcă
  • Soviet Counselors: Dmitry Georgievich Fedichkin, Aleksandr Mihailovich Sakharovskii, Valerian Bucikov, Moscalu, Tsygankov

National directorates

  • First Directorate
    • Director: colonel Gavrilă Birtaș [ro]
    • Deputy Director: lieutenant colonel Andrei Glavaciov
    • Branch Chiefs: major Ionel Negreanu, captain Mauriciu Adam, captain Heinz Stănescu [ro], captain Aurelian Ionescu
  • Second Directorate
    • Director: colonel Gogu Popescu
    • Deputy Director: major Gheorghe Bulz
    • Branch Chiefs: captain Ilie Sariceleanu, major Maximilian Vardan, captain Mihai Andriescu
  • Third Directorate
    • Director: major Coman Stoilescu
    • Branch Chiefs: captain Augustin Cosma, lieutenant Grigore Filipescu
  • Fourth Directorate
    • Director: major Gheorghe Petrescu
    • Deputy Director: captain Cricor Garabețian
    • Branch Chiefs: captain Boris Caranicolov, captain Ilarion Savenco, captain Andrei Ciuperge, lieutenant Gheorghe Mihăilescu
  • Fifth Directorate
    • Directors: colonel Mișu Dulgheru, colonel Mircea Lepădătescu
    • Deputy Director: lieutenant colonel Simion Tudor Dincă
    • Branch Chiefs: captain Matușei Andriescu, captain Grigore Ștețcovici
  • Sixth Directorate
    • Director: lieutenant colonel Augustin Albon[2]
    • Deputy Director: major Ion Crișan
    • Branch Chiefs: lieutenant Traian Predescu, captain Dionisie Dobre, lieutenant Andrei Tulbure
  • Seventh Directorate
    • Director: lieutenant colonel Alexandru Neacșu
    • Branch Chief: major Cornel Goliumbovici
  • Eighth Directorate
    • Deputy Director: major Dumitru Popescu
  • Ninth Directorate
    • Deputy Directors: major Alexandru Guțan (Director of Aiud Prison, 1945–1948),[3] major Nicolae Duță
    • Branch Chief: captain Milo Aritonovici
  • Tenth Directorate
    • Director: colonel Alexandru Jurnu
    • Deputy Director: major Ion Ceslanschi
    • Branch Chief: captain Mihalache Bujor

Regional directorates

Notes

  1. ^ Deletant, Annex 2
  2. ^ Iancu, Mariana (January 2019). "Augustin Albon, torționarul care a inventat "stâlpul infamiei": "Cu gamela să săpați Canalul, bandiților"" [Augustin Albon, the torturer who invented the "pillar of infamy": "Dig the Canal with your canteens, bandits"]. Adevărul (in Romanian). Retrieved August 13, 2021.
  3. S2CID 245849120
    .

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