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Emil Hurezeanu, a Romanian journalist who knew Mueller well, said the author was forced to leave Romania because of harassment by the Securitate, which is alleged to have had more than
unknown title 2009
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In Romania, where 700,000 informants kept tabs for the "Securitate" on a population of 22 million, the more than 2 million files remain tightly controlled, yet dirty secrets keep slipping out to damage careers, friendships and family ties.
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I think everyone should do a google search on "Securitate" We already have police
Cafferty File 2008
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The word CHARACTER made the Securitate man hysterical.
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Instead of relying on Soviet troops to keep him in power, the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu relied on his secret police, the feared Securitate.
Gadhafi Must Still Be Captured Paul Wolfowitz 2011
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Three times in one week a visitor showed up at my office early in the morning: an enormous, thick-boned man with sparkling blue eyes — a colossus from the Securitate.
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For years, Western countries excoriated the Stasi, the Securitate and the KGB.
Charlie Brooker: We shouldn't have to feel paranoid about snoops listening in to everything we say 2011
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The next morning, his body was displayed publicly and the Securitate's shooting faded away.
Gadhafi Must Still Be Captured Paul Wolfowitz 2011
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When Ceaucescu fell, the Securitate began a campaign of indiscriminate shooting and violence.
Gadhafi Must Still Be Captured Paul Wolfowitz 2011
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I made my first visit to Romania in the mid-1990s to do a documentary about the Securitate, the former secret police, for a British television series entitled For Love or Money.
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