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Old October 11th 11, 02:18 AM posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
Pierre COURTIADE[_6_]
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Default Securitate, Philately, and Me in then Communist Romania

Victor Manta wrote :
The Securitate, Romanian for Security; official full name
Departamentul Securitatii Statului, Department of State Security) was
the secret police agency of Communist Romania. Founded on August 30,
1948, with help from the Soviet NKVD, the Securitate was abolished in
December 1989, shortly after President Nicolae Ceausescu was ousted.

Because the Romanian post hasn't issued, for obvious reasons
(spitting on the wrong side), stamps dedicated to Securitate forces,
I show a document received by Securitate from one of its numerous
informants, a stamp collector with the code name "Sergiu". This
document is one of many that belong to the file that Securitate
gathered over the years about me. I received in September 2011, on
personal demand, a copy of the file, containing this document too,
from the C.N.S.A.S. (Consiliul National pentru Studierea Arhivelor
Securitatii - National Council for Studying the Securitate Archives).

More on my new philatelic page:

http://www.reds-on.postalstamps.biz/informer.htm



Victor,

Thank you for sharing these moving and very personal facts with us !

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All the best,
Pierre

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